With appreciation and gratitude, I would like to thank Dick White for his heartfelt presentation on “Climate Migration: A New Normal,” offered Jan. 16 through the Life-Long Lecture Series at…
Wanted: farm laborers, dishwashers, overnight janitors, hotel housekeepers, slaughterhouse workers and roughnecks. Only white males need apply. Must show proof of great-great grandparents’ American citizenship with presentation of notary-stamped birth…
Chris Hansen When I joined LPEA in November, I stepped into a cooperative with a strong foundation, a clear mission and an engaged membership. As we enter 2025, we are…
In a Durango City Council meeting on Tuesday, councilors voted to withdraw their baseless lawsuits against the county commissioners and sheriff related to their desire to use the La Plata…
Now that President Donald Trump is putting together his Cabinet and top administrators, it has become quite clear where his priorities lie. Having campaigned on “rescuing the middle class,” Trump…
Jeff Hurd, you ended up choosing the wrong time to go to Washington. That is, it will be the wrong time if you end up supporting the unethical, vindictive, retributive…
Is there nothing in the federal government that Donald Trump doesn’t want to pull apart and destroy, behaving as though his election victory gives him unlimited authority? Internally, he has…
Herb Bowmancca Just two weeks ago I was living in Yerevan, Armenia, directing a U.S. government-sponsored human rights project when the State Department ordered almost all foreign assistance projects around…
A top priority for President Donald Trump is extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but despite all of the touting of this, it is worthwhile to revisit how this…
The recent Durango 9-R School Board meeting revealed a troubling lack of transparency, disregard for parental rights and failure to maintain neutrality as the district faces declining enrollment. With only…
Remember 7th grade? Physical changes? Social and emotional upheaval? Perhaps a shift in school setting, classmates and teachers? Establishing new relationships can pose challenges or sometimes fracture a fragile ego.…
Mary Nowotnycca Remember seventh grade? Physical changes? Social and emotional upheaval? Perhaps a shift in school setting, classmates and teachers? Establishing new relationships can pose challenges or sometimes fracture a…
Work has been underway at the state Capitol since the beginning days of the legislative session to tackle the sizable shortfall in the state’s fiscal year, which begins in July.…
Thanks, once again, to Mike Sigman, for his mansplaining talent. This time he tries to teach us the science of sexual imprinting and the “needless exposure to abnormal sexual behavior…
There are only two flags that belong in a public school classroom in the state of Colorado: the American flag and the Colorado state flag. The board’s insistence on rewriting…
Way to go, Durango, Chapman Hill is drawing more visitors than ever! Except you probably can’t find parking. Overflow is pushed into the gun club or farther across the roundabout…
There are several images in President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the second just a week old, that will remain in the public’s mind: his escalator descent smearing all…
After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining about the “undemocratic” method used to elect commissioners in our county.…
Undocumented immigrants have come to the United States to escape horrendous conditions that include violence, rape, extortion and kidnapping at levels that none of us in the United States can…
It is so dismaying that the Weminuche bighorn population has dropped from 460 to 290 since 2011, especially when the target population is over 1,000 animals (Terry Meyers, Durango Herald,…
It is a fitting time to recognize and applaud the Durango School District 9-R Board of Education and its unanimous decision this week to adopt two resolutions supporting the rights…
I experienced a wake-up call this past week when I had an abnormal imaging study. I was referred to CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital Breast Care Center in Durango for a procedure.…
RFK Jr. states that despite opposition from the Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization, Fauci declared that “remdesivir” will be the “standard of care” for COVID-19, then overlooked…
If our judicial system and lawyers don’t care about the justice system – trials and judgments that takes criminals off the street – why should any of us? Why should…
Greedy, insatiable tech barons seated at his throne in full display. Their wealth exceeds that of the robber barons in the Gilded Age. His election success was truly all about…
While Catholic and Christian Science and Presbyterian religions are dissimilar, they all often have Old Glory in full view in their houses of worship, usually inside the front of their…
Yes, this is about Long Term Care insurance. Now take the gun away from your temple (although that would obviate the need for LTC) and read along. And this is…
Welcome to February and Happy Groundhog Day. This was one of my favorite holidays because it hadn’t been taken over by Hallmark and it had escaped any real controversy. cca…
The Durango school board appointed Katie Stewart to fill a vacant seat, District D, at its Sept. 20 special meeting. (Courtesy of Durango School District 9-R) Every year, legislators spend…
