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There is just no way to avoid a county tax increase

In coming months, the La Plata County commissioners will be struggling to solve a difficult problem: how to put the county’s finances on a sustainable basis. The Long Term Finance Committee ...

DATE: May 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Sorry boys, next president should not be a man

According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as u...

DATE: May 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

We’re part of your community, Durango, and you’re part of ours

The nation watched last summer as the devastating 416 Fire burned 54,000 acres north of Durango, forcing thousands to evacuate, costing millions to extinguish and resulting in economic loss ...

DATE: May 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Uber’s IPO is a moral stain on Silicon Valley

In 2010, I received an email from an ecstatic employee at a startup called UberCab. “What our tiny company is doing for San Francisco right now is huge,” he told me. The employee’...

DATE: May 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our military is like cab owners in the age of Uber

Early on a Sunday morning in 1932, a fleet of some 150 fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes struck the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The ships lying at anchor on Battleship Row...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

We must fix problems at the sources of migration

In the United States, the sky is the limit when we think of solving problem through technological fixes but we lack imagination and confidence when it comes to dealing with social problems. ...

DATE: May 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

A despicable cartoon in The New York Times

Anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but last Thursday, the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it. Except th...

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Winning the black vote

It helps to start by knowing African-Americans are not one bloc

DATE: Apr 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

What happens when bigots are victims of bigotry

Spot the problem with the quoted remarks: (1) The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 was “something some people did.” (2) Last month’s attack on two mosques in Christchurch,...

DATE: Apr 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Welcome to the millionaires club, Sen. Sanders

“I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.” With those words, Bernie Sanders acknowledged that he has joined the ranks of the “...

DATE: Apr 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

We are living in the age of mass deportations

In recent years, despite the fact that research clearly demonstrates that immigrants contribute to economic growth and safer communities, the deportation of immigrants has reached all-time h...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Big win for Trump on U.S. policy toward Iran

It’s been nearly a year since Donald Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, to loud cries that it would bring nothing but woe to the United States and our interests ...