After a lifetime in La Plata County, I was sure I had the budget figured out. Property values keep going up, therefore county revenues go up with them, right? Surely this more than offsets the loss in...

What does Rep. Hurd think about health care and the government shutdown? Who knows. Hurd certainly does not communicate much on these subjects to his constituents. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget...

It’s intuitively obvious to casual observers around our shared planet that Vlad Putin and Donald J. Trump want the same thing: the elimination of the good old USA. Is there any other answer to this st...

What is this energy we all sink into when we read the news? There’s so much anxiety followed by anger, depression, confusion and/or numbness. Perhaps the most common experience is feeling overwhelmed....

We all need clean water, clean air and healthy environments to live and thrive. That’s why it’s just and right that our environmental rights are given the highest constitutional protection that would ...

Durango-La Plata County Airport recently announced that daily parking rates will temporarily increase from $9 to $14 during the Thanksgiving holidays. We have received some negative feedback about thi...

Has anyone looked at a USDA Forest Service website recently? Every page contains a banner blaming “Radical Left Democrats” for the government shutdown, and claiming that Donald Trump “has made it clea...

Before 1910, anyone with minimal education could “practice medicine”; quackery was rampant. The American Medical Association addressed this situation in 1908, commissioning Abraham Flexner to evaluate...

I have seen a few letters from people complaining about all the e-bike riders on the Animas River Trail, and there certainly is a reason for the letters. There are reckless bike riders on the river tr...

Congratulations to the citizens of Frisco, Colorado, who came to the aid of a business owner being harassed by Trump’s ICE. That is what the real America is all about: helping God-fearing, honest, har...