Evaluating how people use the Animas River is, in itself, a worthy cause. With unchecked expansion of the commercial recreation and the selling of Durango as a recreational mecca, you…
Other examples include: the bench on the corner of Eighth and Main. After a homeless guy set up camp there every day, the city got rid of the bench. At…
The headline implied that the Hermosa Creek Wilderness bill would restrict snowmobile access on Molas Pass. In fact, the Hermosa Creek bill provides permanent snowmobile access to the West Needles…
Some say that Roosevelt emerged from his “blue-blood” upper class to save American capitalism. Perhaps so, but I felt in my youth that a man of great heart and mind…
Army’s concession is a victory for Colorado, ranchers, the land and property rights
As Cook detailed, the facts do not support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal to drop federal protections for most gray wolves in the lower 48. Nor do they…
The Hermosa Creek Workgroup had representatives from nearly every interest and user group of the Hermosa Creek area including water users, grazers, dirt bikers, sportsmen, quiet recreationists, mountain bikers and…
I call it frightening because this bill would not only automatically approve drilling leases after 60 days, but it also would demand $5,000 from any group wanting to protest a…
It is well-known that Friedman is the direct mouthpiece for this administration. Any critic of President Barack Obama is attacked and delegitimized as a warmonger. If you don’t go along…
For instance, in Colorado, this could prohibit the Forest Service from requiring water diverters to leave some water in streams on national forests to keep native cutthroat trout alive. It…
I believe, initially, it was touted as an improvement to traffic flow. Wasn’t it stated early on that with the traffic lights synced in this manner, one could drive from…
There are people like the woman who was sitting at the intersection near the mall waiting to turn left. She noticed that the light for the lane next to her…
It’s hilarious that in the Nov. 22 Herald, Purgatory President Gary Derck complains that United Airlines is charging unfairly for plane tickets out of Durango. Companies that rip off the…
The statistics might be valid if you eliminated the data for the Walmart intersection, and then I’d expect the numbers for the three other Camino intersections that have flashing yellow…
John F. Kennedy’s place in history is sadly, but forever, tied to his death in Dallas
There has been precious little attention to and analysis of the assassination of the assassin. What in the world was going on with Jack Ruby? How does this mob-connected, soon-to-die-of-cancer,…
This act would protect a prime wildlife watershed used by hunters, fishermen, hikers and other outdoorspeople while also preserving existing uses by mountain bikers and other recreationists (including snowmobiling on…
I was supposed to be picking up the family room but I was watching “Our Miss Brooks” instead … The show was interrupted. My mother didn’t believe me. Fifty years…
Slashing benefits for neediest Americans is the wrong place to save money
Republicans have tried extreme measures to repeal or strike a mortal blow to the ACA, including those ridiculous government shutdown antics we witnessed last month. OK, Republicans, show us your…
The county commissioners got it right; the market can sort out number of shops
Increased spending on treatment could save on courts, police, emergency rooms
Lincoln’s speech, 272 words in length, was over in less than two minutes and didn’t receive much attention during his lifetime. Now, of course, it is considered one of Lincoln’s…
