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Sarah Tingey: Thanks, Democrats, for trying to protect ANWR

Thank you to the Colorado Democratic Congressional delegation for recognizing that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America’s last truly wild place, is not worth destroying for less than...

DATE: Sep 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Frank Bruni: Why impeaching Trump is necessary – and should scare you

President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached. But the prospect terrifies me, and it should terrify you, too. That’s not to say that it’s the wrong move. Arguably, it’s the only...

DATE: Sep 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Wilderness represents a commitment to humility

Bill Worf, the Forest Service’s first wilderness program leader and Wilderness Watch’s founder, liked to tell the story of when, shortly after the Wilderness Act passed in 1964, engineers at...

DATE: Sep 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Relocating bears won’t solve problem of people

The bear came in the afternoon. Having learned that neighborhoods contained a bounty of high-calorie foods, the bear had abandoned its natural wariness of people in exchange for e...

DATE: Sep 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mercy and Centura are focused on their mission

For 137 years, Mercy Regional Medical Center has provided quality, comprehensive medical care to Durango and the surrounding communities. We have been recognized as one of the “100 Great Com...

DATE: Sep 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

I know firsthand about buried atomic-age dangers

In May, 1955, the U.S. Navy participated in a test of a nuclear depth charge 500 miles off the coast of San Diego. The explosion was powerful enough that a merchant ship leaving S...

DATE: Sep 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Reverse shocking city rules on nonprofit funding

Fact: Nonprofit organizations enrich our community in many ways. During my hikes, I regularly meet new arrivals who have relocated to Durango. Almost invariably, we end up talking...

DATE: Sep 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bring back the old, intriguing Elizabeth Warren

The most important campaign news of the summer was Elizabeth Warren’s surge. Early in the year, her campaign was in fifth place, with a mere 6% support. Now, she is rising toward ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

In Hong Kong, playing tennis with gas grenades

HONG KONG – President Donald Trump has called the pro-democracy protests here “riots,” and China has in effect denounced participants as terrorists. Yet even when chaos reigns dur...

DATE: Sep 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Opioids here not the huge problem you may think

The Durango Herald article “ I have been working in this community doing opioid-specific education, Naloxone trainings and general substance use prevention for the past year as an AmeriCorp...

DATE: Aug 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Nostalgia breeds derangement. Let’s move on.

In 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” which drew on his years working in Russian television to de...

DATE: Aug 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Lessons at most progressive and American school

SEDONA, Ariz. – As a government official in World War II, Hamilton Warren was outraged to learn that a black colleague made half as much as his white peers. So, after the war, the...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns