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Need workers, trade schools

During my last haircut at a Durango small business, I learned that the owners had trouble finding licensed and certified barbers, and plumbers available to help keep their business open. As ...

Kudos on trauma-informed sentencing

Kudos to District Attorney Christian Champagne and the DA’s office on their progressive stance in a recent domestic violence case. Champagne required the convicted perpetrator to find new em...

‘Gilda Yazzie has my vote’

My longtime friend Gilda Yazzie is running for Durango City Council and has my vote. Gilda’s extensive professional background and bachelor’s degree in business from Fort Lewis College make ...

Harrison Wendt ‘a pivotal change’

Harrison Wendt does not stray away from the real. Having experienced life as an Fort Lewis College student, a performing artist and community activist, Harrison is present in so many areas o...

‘Park, walk mile in the mud’

We live down a two-mile dirt road, barely maintained by La Plata County’s Road and Bridge division. That was until we set up a brand-new homestead three years ago. After many emails alertin...

Usual subjects are ‘cultural shepherds’

The rank smell of red herring, stuffed into pockets of straw men binging Orwellian Fox News to feed nativist diets, takes little scratching to sniff in recent letters to the editor in The Du...

Rosemary Lane: ‘What happened?’

On Friday, we learned that 16 new single family homes being built on Rosemary Lane will be priced at $1,035,000 or $1,248,000. When the city planning commission approved the proposal, the bu...

‘If Limbaugh, Jones had an offspring’

Finally, many middle-of-the-road and principled conservatives are beginning to see what an utter buffoon Tucker Carlson is. If Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones had an offspring, it would look, t...

‘Mistakes’ about river access

On March 5, in “Flies and Lies,” columnist Don Oliver wrote about river access and private property rights in Colorado. He makes some mistakes in his analysis. He says, “Until now, the strea...

Bayfield BOE ‘decision took courage’

My commendation and support goes to the unanimous decision of the Bayfield School Board to modify the curriculum concerning sex education. This decision took courage. What that school board ...

‘Mea culpa’ on RV park zoning

An “acknowledgement of error” or “apology” are definitions of mea culpa. Yes, I was the one who wrote the letter on Jan. 20, saying the Roberts Resorts RV Park proposal was incorrect. As a c...

‘Long for ‘real’ railroad lanterns’

I greatly enjoyed the “flanger” snow-plowing tourist train story. Let’s have more local-train stories, shall we? But hold the train – did I read correctly in the story that crew members’ bre...
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