Like most Durangoans, we applauded the nighttime addition of the infamous T-rex head to the “rock banana” and mourned its removal. We still check out the banana every time we…
The Valles Caldera Preserve was not an example of privatization, nor was it designed with the help of or is it anything like any proposal made by the Cato Institute.…
I rented to a former GI gunner who had a wounded warrior mention on his license plate. He scared me more than once, even though I gave him no reason…
We love Durango and are involved with animals and young-adult involvement with the community – including 4H, which gives kids the best involvement with helping others here in Durango. I’m…
The state’s testing debacle has cheated the learning process in the school system, promoted “teach to the test” instead of learning to learn, denied teachers’ rights to teach to learn…
Don’t get me wrong. T-shirts in February have their appeal. But I know we’ll be hurting for water this summer if this keeps up. While the “Fire and Ice” photography…
Neither politics nor ideology need hamper improvements to a dysfunctional system
I know that what we do now still matters – especially to our children and grandchildren. The best science suggests if we get serious about reducing greenhouse gasses now, we…
Adjustments should have been made and finalized before construction. From this intersection, a driver would have to drive about a mile out of his way to get to La Posta…
In the meantime, I will continue my plans to retire to Oregon, where I know I can live – and die, by choices well made. Oh, and by the way…
As Reuters reported, “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she made a mistake when she claimed she had come under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996…
Progress is of course welcome, but the largest hurdle remains – money
There is no reason for the run-up to April’s vote to be quiet or uneventful
In 2006, my wife was diagnosed with the terminal disease pulmonary fibrosis, and for the next four years, she suffered. During August of 2011, my daughter Brooke and I were…
In that vein, she sponsored and helped pass a bill in the Colorado Senate that allows parents to exempt their children from being vaccinated. They can be exempted for any…
Obama’s rather glib and brief history of the Crusades hardly told the whole complicated story of events of 800 years distant, but his moral relativism is rather glaring. As Bobby…
This bill called The “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act” (seriously) will be introduced by Reps. Pompey and Butterfield. The bill if enacted will: Prevent states from adopting their own…
In speaking with a person in the planning office, we discovered that: a) only those within 300 feet of this business were made aware of the proposal, b) the entire…
Apparently, Koch is quite serious. This is one of the most outrageously ironic pieces I have ever read. Those “well-intentioned” lawmakers who created “incarceration nation” were instructed by Koch’s American…
My question is, was J. Paul channelling Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” or NBC’s Brian Williams? Gerry Schaerer Durango
As a biker, if a car doesn’t come to a complete stop and I see their wheels continue to roll, I have no choice but to continue to brake and…
Sadly, when adults think of teens, they may think of overly dramatic whiners who barely will lift a finger except to play a video game This stereotype could not be…
The article states that the primary reason for entertaining these taxes is due to “declining property-tax revenue caused by falling natural-gas and oil production and property values.” Regarding oil and…
Now, as I read more about the fight brewing across Western states over whether the state or federal government should control public lands, I keep thinking to myself, where’s the…
An old newspaper adage is that a town needs a school, a post office, a bar, a church, (to balance each other out, I suppose!) and a newspaper. I think…
