Public comment through normal profiles (with all the regulatory checks and balances) exist at media outlets and papers throughout the United States without the added layer of a mandatory Facebook…
I have always been a fighter. Each individual needs to find their own threshold of where their quality of life is no longer viable. I have come to terms with…
So, pity those who live in places like Pagosa, which is an hour farther away but paying even lower prices? That’s right: As of Feb. 1, gas in Pagosa was…
From a distance, it’s easy for Lachelt to say that La Plata County was more affected by the Gold King Mine spill than San Juan County. From a distance, it’s…
But that is not likely to happen soon. So the best thing Durango and La Plata County can do is to improve airport facilities to “lure” more airlines into our…
“Excluding” means the opposite of “including.” The way I read it, one cannot take snow from a private property and deposit it in the public street. That makes sense. However,…
The authors were all well educated and prominent gentlemen who traveled everywhere, mostly by horse-drawn conveyance, and thus had a lot of time to think. So, I doubt any word…
Since moving to Hesperus in the spring of 2013, I have read about the increasing number of trucks the company Grupos Cementos de Chihuahua is running on the northern section…
But while reading through the publication I came upon a column by Dan Savage. The topics he covered were, to me, something which would not normally be printed in free…
So, with all due respect, cut the following: Eliminate the clinic in the schools. Return that health care responsibility to the parent or the La Plata County Health Department where…
It’s no surprise that the talks will be rendered futile due to lack of representation by Syrian rebel groups who are fighting to depose Syria’s dictatorial, Shiite (Alawite) President, Bashar…
The airport terminal idiots are still at it. The citizens haven’t voted but they want to go ahead with the new terminal. Then they say it’s not so bad being…
So my letter is about the why! What happened to our happy little world here that now we have to pay more than a fare to Central America, or Cabo…
It’s encouraging that Rep. Scott Tipton and Sens. Bennet and Gardner have brought forward a discussion draft of a bipartisan Good Samaritan bill in Congress. Please don’t overlook the fact…
There seems to be a new set of “Rules of the Road in Durango”: Lights: Red means go, Green means go faster, and Yellow means “go for it” because other…
It is a symbol of our heritage. I, being a “flag flyer,” would enjoy sitting and talking with critics over the historical facts of the Civil War, and possible causes…
I’m an Animas High School graduate currently attending college out of state as a freshman. Animas High School uses a project-based learning structure to teach their students. I found this…
The Southern Ute Tribal Council has made the decision to discontinue financial support and declared that the SUCCM board of directors must submit to dissolution or “acquisition” of the 501(c)(3)…
I attribute this inflation to the state of Colorado divesting from higher education. Colorado ranks 49th in state spending per student and from 1980 to 2011 cut funding by almost…
This was a reappraisal year where Colorado Assessor’ brought every real estate property from the 2012 level of market value to the 2014 market value. This means the actual value…
One has to wonder what message the Mancos School District was trying to convey by non-observance? Was it saying that history and progress serve no value and, therefore, deserve no…
Almost 85 percent of Coloradans support future presidents’ ability to designate national monuments like Chimney Rock and Canyons of the Ancients, local and national treasures. Coloradans understand that our unique…
I witnessed a monster truck run a red light that had changed one minute earlier. This T-bone collision would have killed all aboard. I have never seen so many red…
He would tell me about his work there, it seemed to captivate his imagination. He came into possession of some items after his Aunt Kathy passed away. He was the…
I applaud U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, for disagreeing with Obama’s attack on coal; it produces more of the energy we use than any other method. Both it and natural…
I have no political experience, nor do I want to be a politician, but I can no longer stand by and witness the dissolution of our great state and country.…
Let’s get the facts straight. The horses at Mesa Verde are not romantic wild mustangs. They are feral horses that have been abandoned. Like Russian thistles, they are invasive and…
Could it be that is what he really cares about? He obviously doesn’t care about pollution and the environment. Karen Skelly Bayfield
First, let’s say that historically the term “Native Americans” is an open question. It appears that there were other people (perhaps proto-Melanesians) living in some parts of the Americas before…
With this better snow year I have been enjoying the golf course with my cross country skis almost every day and I am not alone. Most days both parking lots…
