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Tipton failed Coloradans on health care

In January, I was laid off due to restructuring, and for the past six months I’ve been without health insurance. I’m 40 and in good health, but the vulnerability of living without health ins...

City Council wastes money, seeks more

Durango is a tourist mecca, which means far greater hotel/motel, restaurant and shopping tax revenues than most other cities receive. Yet the city of 18,000 to 19,000 people is now told by t...

Visitors should treat town as their own

As the fire rages on, so does the debate about tourists and tourism, i.e., do we need/want them or not? I say it depends. Today, while on the river trail by the recre...

Radioactive sites and civic decline

This spring, while our mountains are being torched before our eyes, behind closed doors in Durango our civil liberties and the future of our town’s prosperity are quietly being consumed by o...

Karl Hanlon is leader we need in Congress

Climate change is real and is a threat to our economy and our way of life. It’s time we had a member of Congress who not only believes that climate change is real, but who will DO something ...

Keep Allison Aichele working for you

I just retired from the (La Plata County) Treasurer’s Office after 21 years of service. During the last 3½ years, I have worked for Allison Aichele, La Plata County treasurer. She has been t...

NFL attack just another Trump distraction

It is not anti-flag, anti-anthem or anti-military. To me, it’s a peaceful and tangible means of expression to say, “Consider how many of my brothers and sisters of color are treated unfairly...

Train should try switching to natural gas

To suggest that the D&SNGRR consider new ideas is not an attack on the train, the owner, the community or the value of historic preservation in general. It is only a request to consider the ...

Drought conditions require closures

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train should have been shut down during this season of extraordinarily historical drought. And can someone please explain why, in th...

Tim Walsworth is right choice for treasurer

Tim Walsworth has been a business leader in the Durango community for over 15 years and will continue applying his leadership skills as a public servant for La Plata County. I have worked wi...

Reauthorized Farm Bill must protect SNAP

In May, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, or “Farm Bill,” to reauthorize farm programs and policy as well as the Supplemental Nutrition As...

Remember to pay property taxes on time

June 15 is the deadline for paying property taxes, and payments postmarked after that date will be “delinquent.” If you have a mortgage on your residential home, most likely your...
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