And yet the people who call these mountains home are turning their backs on their most important resource. I can’t blame anyone for being scared or skeptical of mine reclamation,…
As we’ve all learned since the Animas disaster, our river is just one of hundreds in Colorado that has been silently polluted over the past decades thanks to unaccountable mining…
But you totally dropped the ball on Solheim Cup coverage. This is a huge international event with a strong patriotic component. And this year, the American women golfers overcame the…
The Animas does not even run through Silverton, as its headwaters are south of town limits. The offending mines are north of Silverton, and the creeks that carry the pollution…
After the ugly plume made its way through town, the community hit a very fragile state, affecting members of the recreational community to the small-business community. The mustard-colored water was…
It is imperative that a peaceful solution be found for Syria itself. That will take strong diplomatic action on the part of the U.S., Europe and Russia, but the issue…
Durango quickly needs to install a safer way for everyone to use the roadway, including pedestrians. I know I am not the only one to have an incident like this,…
He complains stakeholders downstream are bashing the residents of Silverton: “(Silverton) has its own pristine drinking water sources and has no need for irrigation water because there is no agriculture…
Surely this is a much more direct delivery of this extra water to downstream users than hoping it will flow through the ground without first evaporating or being lost to…
The impacts are already dramatic in Alaska, but here in Colorado it’s happening, too. We are seeing a growing trend of reduced snowpack and we’ve just experienced yet another of…
In Colorado, we are contending with longer and more destructive wildfire seasons, reduced snowpack and increased incidence of respiratory disease. Research from the Union of Concerned Scientists and a climate…
Then, on Sept. 17, I watched the Denver Broncos game, and it was over after 9 p.m., and the Durango Herald had an article in the next day’s paper about…
State Supreme Court chooses to go along with the Legislature’s budgetary trickery
This comes from an organization that tells young, scared, pregnant girls that their child is “just a blob of tissue.” I have news, you can’t donate brains and hearts, lungs…
The federal plus state tax on gas 41 cents per gallon in Colorado versus 37 cents in Arizona. So where’s the justification on the 55 cent difference? When I read…
A vast majority of states have allowed full-strength beer and wine sales in grocery stores for years. And as the craft beer segment in general represents the largest share and…
Could it be that there really is a price-fixing cartel in Durango? Anthony R. Palmer Durango
If you want bicycle tourism, build trails with flow, berms, jumps, challenging rollers and technical features. The “Chapman flow trail” is a joke with brake-jacking corners (exactly Trails 2000’s style).…
Let’s be clear: I think we should remember people who lose their lives to the fallen and senselessly violent nature of human “kind.” I think we should mourn the loss…
The majority of those on the committee would not acknowledge the cause, ignored the long-term effects and offered no solution to the problem or any assistance to those affected. All…
I think it is long past time we all stand up and say “enough is enough” and put our support behind our law-enforcement people and do everything we can to…
And so it is with Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, and his ilk, and the Environmental Protection Agency. After they ensured a permanent underclass with deep cuts to maternal and infant…
Quite frankly, I’m more concerned about the rude river runners who trespass and then flip me off after they’ve used my land for a toilet, than the heavy metals in…
