Greetings stargazers. Orion’s belt is making its annual return to our early evening sky. From east to west, the belt stars are Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. These three blue giant stars form one of th...

Construction season usually begins in the spring and ends in the fall. But lately in Durango, it seems to have lasted years. Crews have faced complications on two major road reconstruction projects – ...

As County commissioners from Montezuma and La Plata counties with multigenerational histories in the Dolores River Basin, we have spent nearly two decades working together to address the complex chall...

We have less than six weeks to go before the 2026 legislative session, so I’d like to give an overview of my bills for the coming year. These policy proposals may look different by the time they reach...

I’m writing to urge the community to let the conversation begin around battery storage systems. Batteries are part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that can enable energy autonomy, lower rates a...

Colorado faces a difficult choice: transition off fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy or continue to jeopardize our environment and health. But transition inevitably comes with economic and so...

In the current oppressive political climate, we infrequently engage in constructive dialogue across bubbles, with people who disagree with us sharply. I had just such an experience last week in conver...

When President Trump labeled Somali immigrants “garbage,” he weaponized presidential power to diminish an entire community. As novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned in her TED Talk “The Danger of a...

Durango’s recent effort to enforce business licensing and sales-tax collection at small Christmas craft fairs is a mistake, both practically and culturally. These events are not commercial operations ...