Opinion

Our View: Affordable housing measure a sustainable solution

Housing is a basic need. Without it, we won’t hold onto our working and middle class. Our service workers, our nurses, our teachers, our police officers. The lack of affordable housing in th...

Our View: Utes lead with hydropower

We are pleased to hear the hums and whistles, the sounds of renewable energy on the 7,700-acre Ute Mountain Farm and Ranch Enterprise southwest of Towaoc. The new hydroelectric system is exp...

Our View: A reason to believe in 9-R schools

With education playing an elevated role in midterm elections, we are happy to share good news on the local front. Cumulative test scores from all schools show Durango School District 9-R is ...

'Cartoon just plain wrong’

Editorial cartoons, especially from the left, are easy to ignore. However, the cartoon on Saturday showing three elephants identified as being from Texas, Arizona and Florida toppling the St...

Our View: Need leadership now on homelessness

With today’s deadline to vacate Purple Cliffs, we’re thinking about artist Wendy Abrams’ stirring exhibit, “Invisible Words,” a curation of signs held by unhoused people in Washington, D.C. ...

Our View: Citizens Agenda model serves voters over politicians

Election season gives the editorial board a front-row seat in meeting and getting to know candidates, whether it’s in person or on Zoom. The way it usually goes is candidates give us an elev...

Our View: Science is in: Lonely people don’t vote

Lonely people are less likely to vote. This is proven. Alexander Langenkamp’s study “Lonely Hearts, Empty Booths?: The Relationship between Loneliness, Reported Voting Behavior and Voting as...

Our View: Honor vets with Camp Hale monument

Camp Hale and the Tenmile Range, which produced the 10th Mountain Division with alpine soldiers who busted through German lines and changed the course of World War II, are in dire need of st...

Our View: Is public best served before, after financial record audits?

Citizens have a right to know what the City of Durango is doing financially. That’s a given. The timely question, though, is whether the public is best served when financial records are rele...

Our View: Mushrooms to treat mental health: Pass Initiative 58

In the treatment of mental health, psilocybin is too promising to ignore. For this reason, along with legalization’s removal of a criminal element, we support passing Initiative 58, the meas...

Our View: How not to polarize voters

The Denver Post’s editorial board made a bold decision in asking four freelance columnists to take a hiatus from writing between the primary and general elections. The board will instead...

Labor Day means something new

Americans rethink how, where, for how much they work
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