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Big Oil is just greedy; vote YES on 112

Vote YES on ballot initiative 112, which requires that new oil and natural gas development be located at least 2,500 feet from occupied structures and other areas designated as vulnerable (t...

Name-brand hotels will hurt our fair city

The current building of mega-storied name-brand-hotels in the heart of Durango is going to harm existing mom-and-pop motels. Price wars will greatly reduce typical summer room rates and many...

Unlike Tri-State, let’s go greener now

We are at an energy crossroads. Coal was the energy of the past. It was wonderful for advancing human civilization, but it’s time to move past coal, just like we did with whale oi...

For businessman, city tax is essential

My family has resided in Durango since the early 1930s. Durango has gone through many changes over the years, but none more important than what we are facing right now. I will be ...

Phil Weiser is best bet for our next AG

The election of an attorney general is an important day for Colorado. Phil Weiser is, by far, the best choice. His opponent has been a prosecutor, supportive of hard-li...

Sean Smith has the leadership we need

I recently read challenger-for-sheriff Charles Hamby’s website. Other than platitudes about community safety and law and order, I found nothing in his stated positions. Is this a case of the...

City tax hike shows police that we care

My husband and I have been residents of Durango for over 40 years. We were delighted when the property tax for the fire department passed last year, and we both feel strongly that our police...

These attorneys are locomotive chasers

The recent article purporting to explain the attorneys’ motives for their suit against the railroad for allegedly starting the 416 Fire omitted some information (“Lawyers discuss lawsuit in ...

We’re ready now for a real representative

Concerned, as I am, about the situation in this dysfunctional White House and believing, as I do, that we urgently need a check and balance rather than the Republican party controlling all t...

Who wants sheep poop in their water?

While camping/hiking the upper Florida watershed – a key source for Durango city drinking water – over four days recently, I observed and photographed the following: domestic sheep excrement...

Please vote YES for Pine River Library

I urge residents of the Pine River Valley to vote YES on ballot measure 6A in November to keep our award-winning library going strong in Bayfield. The library faces a steep declin...

Jena Griswold for secretary of state

Do you know what Colorado’s secretary of state actually does? I didn’t either. But I looked into it a little, and there are at least two reasons why we should care about who holds...
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