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Moving toward medicare for everyone

The “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act” (H.R. 676), is a bill in Congress that establishes a single-payer health insurance system, building upon the existing Medicare framework. The...

DATE: Mar 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Good ideas at Nighthorse meetings

After attending a few of the work sessions for the use of Lake Nighthorse, I came to realize just how many good ideas were discussed. It will be tough decision-making for the city and Bureau...

DATE: Mar 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Violence in the name of art is still violence

“Butterfly Caught,” a film featuring horrific, graphic gun violence, was voted “Best in Category” by both the audience and jurors of the Durango Independent Film Festival. Might ...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We need one another as much as the dream

Back in 1969, the country was divided about our seemingly endless intervention in another country’s civil war. At a reading that year, the poet James Wright recalled the unsettled...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Reducing the uninsured in S.W. Colorado

With regards to the article, “Sign-ups low for federal help ( For the past several years, the following partner organizations have conducted health coverage outreach and enrollment projects...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tipton, Congress must stop the slaughter

Rep. Tipton, please join the “March for Our Lives” event on March 24 at 1 p.m. at Durango High School with a march to Rotary Park. I know many of your constituents who would like...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

It is unwise to repeal the methane rule

At a time when directors of public lands agencies are utterly at odds with the conservation ethics they are entrusted to hold, I am dismayed by the Department of the Interior’s latest propos...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Phillips: All Americans deserve health care coverage

Attention, all business owners who offer medical health coverage for employees and those unable to afford health care for their employees. I invite you to consider health care through a sing...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Got my marching orders against the parade

This will be a very big and beautiful parade. Trust me. It will only cost $22 million, I think. Look at this as helping the American stock market, and the 50 percent of you that ...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Denver TV is hostage to Nielsen, ABQ TV

It has been a year since the Federal Communications Commission ruled that orphan counties could finally receive television broadcasts from their own state. Yet, we are still being held hosta...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our government is already tyrannical

For 10 years, the U.S. banned the civilian use of assault-style guns and large-capacity magazines. But in 2004, the NRA and allied groups spent millions of dollars to kill any appetite for r...

DATE: Mar 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Physical, mental disabilities are different

I am writing today to extend my heartfelt and sincere condolences to all of the family and friends of the victims of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. My prayers go out, as well, to al...

DATE: Mar 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor