We live on a small ranch about halfway between Durango and Bayfield. We are (supposedly) served by CenturyLink with a DSL line. Our internet speeds are supposed to be “up…
I have read and commented on the monkey site and am extremely disappointed in the new “vision” for our community. Since when have these local government officials decided that it…
As a systems analyst for over 20 years, I was frequently tasked with writing a “straw man document” for others to react to. The purpose of a straw man is…
Under the proposed land use code my neighbors could well lose this opportunity. In the “Scenic Overlay District,” farming, farmers market, farm stands, greenhouses, animal training, work-live and live-work units,…
Transparency about issues, information, and options;Member interests made primary by the board;All options explored – not just one;Information about risks, drawbacks and benefits of staying on our current path, and…
They’re back! With all the hubbub nonsense about important national priorities going on in the Capitol, Republican representative Tom McClintock (Calif.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, is pushing…
Are you a teacher? Tipton’s House version eliminated deductions for classroom supplies. The Senate did add back $250. Need to move for a job? Can’t write off any of the…
You claim the code “incorporates input from multiple working groups.” Who are these groups? Did they include the chambers of commerce, the Builders Association, the Farm Bureau, the Cattlemen’s Association,…
That wasn’t the case for Rep. Tipton. While the rest of us struggled at home, he continued to receive his salary in D.C. In 2013, Tipton promised us he would…
My baser farting, burping, good-ol’-boy instinct has me laughing as the dirty, tattered exodus goes slouching toward Bethlehem, up the hill, out of town. My flawed character nods in agreement…
Even as we have faced declining enrollment, we have added an associate V.P. of Academic Affairs and an Assistant V.P. of Academic Affairs to aid the V.P. of Academic Affairs.…
The Snowdown themes are chosen two years ahead from a pool of suggestions that the public submits. This allows event organizers some time to plan their events with that chosen…
I kept score at the first Snowdown softball game. I kept the stats for the first Snowdown Gelande jump. I marched in that first parade although I can’t remember which…
In 1990, I had 2-year-old twin boys and was pregnant with our daughter. I read a story on old-time patent medicines and really wished there was one to relieve cabin…
A failure by Congress to repeal a harsh limit on therapy treatments poses very real financial and medical threats to seniors already struggling from strokes or debilitating conditions like Alzheimer’s…
Nearly all the small lots along County Road 203 on the west side of the valley, and along CR 250 along the east side of the valley – that are…
After printing, our software vendor informed all Colorado treasurers that there was a bug in the system that used the old assessment ratio of 7.96 percent when calculating the senior…
That is why the U.S. Forest Service is currently seeking to modernize their NEPA regulations for the first time in a quarter century; which, with over 100 million acres of…
I’m writing here to touch on the lack of support we received from the Durango Police Department upon filing a police report. First, it took over twenty minutes for the…
Why? Because it’s not life this group is supporting, it’s birth. If groups like this truly supported life, the Children’s Health Insurance Program would have been renewed months ago. Appropriate…
Obviously, most of the more than 1,000 citizens at the meeting on Jan. 16th share my view. I understand that the county authorized a Texas firm, at a cost of…
Rather than do their work, they resorted to purchasing an atrocious document from some outfit that knows nothing of life nor the people of La Plata County. Apparently this outfit…
Skiing is one of the main reasons I relocated to Durango. I cannot help but think if this winter might be the new normal and of the implications that has…
What was to be a listening meeting was an hour-plus of commissioners’ talking points on improving permitting. What the commission revealed is several failed attempts at land use code updates.…
Terry Fiedler, Linda Mannix and some other folks whose names now escape me had started the looniness a few years before, and they did such a great job that you…
The Durango Herald failed to mention, in its Jan. 17 article about this meeting, the two most important facts we found out that night: First, our commissioners did not even…
Instead, his statement mostly covers people arrested during the “War on Terror,” which includes wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and multiple other points around the globe. These people, of course, are…
I’m sick and tired of all the junk cars, machinery junk, and unused trailers dotting the landscape of our beautiful county. You have nothing to say if your neighbors have…
This is not a partisan issue. Without this action, Congress becomes complicit in the denigration of social standards we expect society’s leaders to follow. I would say Congress needs to…
In light of what seems to be a meltdown of too many of our highly-educated government leaders, business titans and some flawed religious leaders, I beg of my local historic,…
