Editorials

A Meditation on Aging

I turned sixty and was feeling frisky. Then sixty-one – still having fun. At sixty-two, I had lots to do. At sixty-three, I was feeling free. Came sixty-four, I needed…

Our View: Kim Martin’s columns touch those affected by Alzheimer’s

Some of the most frequent comments we receive have to do with relating to local Kim Martin’s guest columns about her personal journey and experiences after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s…

Kennedy ‘addressing corporate capture’

We need change. Both Democrat and Republican congressional representatives accept money from lobbyists in exchange for policies that benefit corporate and stockholder pocketbooks, rather than doing what is right for…

Router Lights

A city on my bookcase of pulsating towers of light flashing information coming and going through my home of news of the world of work I need to do of…

Patriotism: ‘Working to live up to ideals country founded on’

cca I see many people proclaiming themselves to be patriots. They wear the American Flag lapel pin. They may have flag bumper stickers. Possibly they have actual American flags or…

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Most of us are not calm neither outside not inside nor any or everywhere Most of us refuse our invitation to this space/place where sun lingers and is soft and…

‘Editors at the Herald are myopic’

The Durango Herald has ceased all relevance to the community. I’m wondering how the letter from a recent writer on March 27 isn’t denigrating literally half of the country? I…

Our View: Sun reporter booted from state GOP assembly for doing the right thing

The Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish, who was kicked out of the state GOP assembly in Pueblo on Saturday, excels at the most unsexy forms of journalism – digging deep…

Let’s play climate change game: ‘Adapt/Move/Die’

Let’s play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting . . . now. The game is called Adapt/Move/Die, and…

Boomer strikes back: ‘OK, Zoomers. I get it.’

Cross “OK, Boomer” is the sarcastic retort to those of us born in the Baby Boomer era. It is a dismissive and derisive response to older people who express opinions…

Free verse and Robert Frost

This poet’s question pesters me: Is free verse really poetry? Not in the view of Robert Frost Who saw scant point when form was lost For hopeful poets, form is…

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Our View: Thank you, Tom Stritikus

With his team, Fort Lewis College president made enduring gains

Bill would ‘protect precious water resources’

I started High Desert Life Outdoors in Cortez to showcase our state’s outdoor lifestyle – providing gear and equipment to folks who love to camp, boat and hike, and featuring…

Pepper Trail: ‘Still so many places worth saving’

cca For a long time, climate change was largely perceived as a distant threat. But Oregon writer-biologist Pepper Trail, 70, who often writes for the opinion service Writers on the…

Consider ‘candidates’ views on health care, proposed solution’

Phillipscca The 2024 elections may well be decided by voters this fall based on economic conditions but health care is turning out to be an unexpected central campaign issue. The…

What If

Why are our young ones choosing death? Drugs, guns, suicide, mutilation, abortion, screens What if one generation taught the next, That life is precious and worth the struggle? What if…

Hugging the Ledge

Stone skiing without poles or sticks up Bear Canyon on Comb Ridge the rocks a hefty 45 degree angle and I with you always and only at this acute angle,…

‘Our self-esteem that we must enhance’

Do something today to bring joy to the world you live in. Being in a positive mood will create feel good endorphins. These are neurotransmitters produced by the pituitary gland…

‘Rage, nausea’ over hanger space story

I felt a mix of rage and nausea when I came across your recent news story with the headline, “Durango airport in need of new hanger space for private planes.”…

‘Tow rope as handrail alongside Sky Steps’

Our hamlet beneath the Diné Sacred Peak has and is suffering chronic, unmitigated murdering to everything sacred to us few remaining native winter athletes. How many recall our three nordic…

Water So Pure

Congratulations on a job well done Securing pure Water is priority one Water after all is what we’re made of 70% Water, the rest is dust, rocks and love It’s…

The Death of Dr. Low

He felt a sudden thump far off in the depths of his mind. A subtle tremor. But what had moved was so immense that he was stunned by the sudden…

‘Insufficient studies’ on marijuana, cancer

Can marijuana cure cancer? According to cancer.org: “More recently, scientists reported that THC and other cannabinoids such as CBD slow growth and/or cause death in certain types of cancer cells…

NM fire survivors ‘who generously spoke vital to work’

cca In February 2023, I signed a lease on a dusty studio apartment in Las Vegas, New Mexico, just outside the burn scar of the largest wildfire in New Mexico…

Our View: Food aid workers best of us humans

Not providing security for them is a war crime

‘Sex is, in fact, binary’

Colorado state Rep. Brianna Titone is a transgendered woman, meaning she is a biological male. I have no problem with adults choosing adult life choices. There are many ways to…

‘Personal blind spots: Untracked powder, my fear of missing out’

Molly AbsalonTina Ravitz There’s a fine line between learning from the mistakes of others and shaming people for their ignorance. Twelve people have died in avalanches in the U.S. this…

Our View: Smaller art projects as worthy as larger ones

The surprise of public art – whether murals on drab cinderblock walls or recycled metal twisted into something intriguing – gives places some pluck. Even better is when unexpected artistic…

State budget: Do not follow rules well, it appears’

Rep. Barbara McLachlandu1-i-syn We must be thoughtful. Colorado’s budget is constitutionally required to be balanced, so last week, the House debated exactly how to do that. It’s never easy. The…