Just before the school year begins, we notice how our students have changed over the summer. Whether they are 4 inches taller or moodier or chattier or hanging with a…
I knew about pay problems at Lone Spur restaurant. It was closed for a time. Menu prices downtown are 50% to 100% higher than when I moved here in 2012.…
For the seven years I have been here, the City Council has been sidestepping or ignoring the many requests for outdoor pickleball courts. The insensitive responses and endless backdoor prioritization…
Beautiful Forest Lakes – not! The largest subdivision in La Plata County has no enforceable codes in place to protect residents from building contractors who purchase land with no intention…
Cross J. Robert Oppenheimer’s creation led to the Duck and Cover era. We who grew up during the Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War had our own childhood worries.…
We can’t say enough good things about former San Juan Basin Public Health Executive Director Liane Jollon’s exemplary emergency response to COVID-19. In this new frontier that was the pandemic,…
I learned about Independent Log Co.’s activity from neighbors who were concerned about what they were witnessing from their properties. I drove to the site and discovered the hill immediately…
I am a U.S. Army/Desert Storm veteran and I take issue with a letter on Sunday headlined, “’Proud’ of Boebert’s work for the military.” The letter writer is the new…
“Court is a quiet, somber sanctuary, where rules prevent the disorienting chaos we experience online,” said Steven Brill, founder of Court TV, in a Saturday New York Times essay in…
As bright red mini-buses pass us by, it’s easy to look beyond a public service we don’t all need. Or didn’t think we need or want, until it was free.…
As recently reported in The Durango Herald and The Journal, grazing domestic sheep on public land can put bears in direct conflict with sheep herders. Thankfully, it sounds like the…
After a century of a fossil fuel-based economy, the Navajo Nation is shifting to a non-carbon energy economy. The capital from the extractive industry made multinational corporations enormously wealthy. Still,…
Dear Hon. Chief Justice John Roberts, Now that Donald J. Trump has been indicted for crimes against America and us – the American voters – please, grant the American people…
I was at the city’s midtown safety improvement feedback meeting at the public library more than a month ago. Good suggestions from the cycling and business community were made to…
Are you feeling the heat? Perhaps not, as you sit in your air-conditioned office or home. But have you ever paused to consider everything else outside your cool little corner…
Those are magnificent renderings of the proposed downtown Durango Fire Protection District station. And a solar garden! Swell! Question: Why isn’t the entire roof of that massive structure comprised of…
The Durango Herald and The Journal have written a few articles over the past couple of years in defense of independent liquor stores in Durango. One would think the local…
Proposition HH is not about saving Coloradans from massive property tax increases. It’s about state politicians repealing the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in Colorado, the juiciest prize of all for…
I am a U.S. Navy veteran who served as a hospital corpsman. I am proud of what Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is doing for our military. Boebert’s recent vote for the…
The editorial in the Wednesday edition of The Durango Herald and The Journal on the loss of carbon-based jobs in the Navajo Nation was really unnecessary. According to CNN, during…
In the dog days of Durango edition on Friday, The Durango Herald and The Journal’s editorial board poked around the edges of the puppy mill swamp, leaving the admonition that…
cca As our rivers begin to recede, it is time to look back on the incredible spring runoff season. An above-average snowpack ushered in high flows with ample opportunities for…
On Monday, Feb. 5, someone walked into the Huck Finn Exxon on the corner of C.R. 250 and C.R. 240 and bought a Powerball ticket. The jackpot that night was…
Donald J. Trump’s unwavering support from the party formally known as the GOP has put into clear focus, America is going to hell in a handbasket. It simply doesn’t make…
