I worked at Mercy Hospital as an ambulance driver and orderly for five years. I then spent the next 25 years working as a firefighter and captain for Durango Fire…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s En-ROADS simulator pits such a fee against countless other proposals intended to address the climate problem and corroborates it as by far the fastest and most…
Former White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelley described Trump as a deeply flawed human being. In the 2016 primaries, Trump’s treatment of fellow Republicans was repulsive; yet Americans…
Boebert should step into role
The Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act, HR 6906 and SB 3790, introduced in Congress in 2020, would have covered all Americans with comprehensive health care, including drug coverage, and paid…
Today’s challenges reflected in the past
We need to focus on immediately implementing solutions for our changing climate. One solution is a carbon fee and dividend: placing a fee on carbon, with a dividend – the…
I have read that mountains are being dynamited into oblivion and that scarce and sacred water is drying up. Forty of my friends and colleagues have traveled to the site…
A few weeks ago we asked readers to tell us what issues they think are most significant for the shaping of our city and region. We appreciate the large number…
We entered the 2020 election as first-time independent candidates. We traveled the county for more than a year to meet voters and listen. We participated in person and online in…
I believe the date that every American should reach for in times of disagreement and crisis is 1787. This, and not 1776, was when the true and everlasting brilliance of…
Craig J. CorsiniSan Rafael, California
She has displayed herself as a childish fool with her stupid tweets during the insurrection of our capital and blatantly displaying her Glock, strutting around the streets of Washington. She…
But I think that honor now goes to the 3rd district of Colorado. Are the honorable citizens of this district truly proud of their new representative? You probably think I…
Ordinary people suffer in wake of siege
Certainly, President Trump incited this insurgency. Those Republicans who support him and parroted his lies of voter fraud and that the election was stolen from him share blame. Those millions…
La Plata County and Durango, like most of the resort areas in the district, did not support Boebert in the election. Therefore, I would think Hopkins will not be traveling…
She has definitely shown her ignorance and is not there to work for the people of the 3rd District of Colorado. She’s only there to promote the QAnon ideology and…
The nature of real Americans that I have treasured for 70 years has nothing to do with the behavior exhibited by thugs led by an elected sociopath last week. My…
After the meeting, everyone went home for the weekend to pore over the agency’s pandemic plans, quarantining and isolation orders, communicable disease plans and other pertinent documents that previously had…
I am even more deeply disturbed, not to mention disgusted, that the newly elected representative from Colorado District 3, Lauren Boebert, chose this moment to display her naivety and ignorance…
Drought affects Colorado’s agriculture: crop yields are stunted, large-scale hay shortages occur, ranchers sell off livestock before maturity, irrigation reservoir and agriculture pond levels decrease or dry up completely. Drought…
Her words can only be interpreted as a call for violence and sedition. She and her supporters have already begun to backpedal and try to explain away her words. They…
I will use my power as a consumer to boycott travel to Durango and Grand Junction because I cannot support sedition and disregard for our democracy. Until she is recalled…
The House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency are now controlled by Democrats! Let us hope they can dig our country out of this mess and bring back respect,…
It wasn’t “a few” rioters who stormed and defaced our Captiol and threatened officials from both political parties and it wasn’t Antifa who caused the tragic deaths or who egged…
