Colorado lawmakers Thursday dropped bipartisan legislation that would allow local voters to raise their county lodging tax rate to 6% from the existing 2%.
The potential tripling of local lodging taxe...
The Colorado Senate gave preliminary approval early Friday to a bill that would ban the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pistols, but the chamber added a major carveout for p...
Our new Rep. Jeff Hurd has made sticking his head in the sand into an impressive art form.
Since he and Trump took office, he has said nothing about the massive illegal and brazen attempt by the pres...
A form of the adage, “Good things come to those who wait,” hit home on Thursday (Herald, Feb. 13) when Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, and Rep. Jeff Hurd, introduced a bipartisan bill to c...
Durango resident James Judge, an accomplished archaeologist and former Fort Lewis College professor, died in his home on Dec. 1.
Judge was remembered by his family, friends and colleagues as a bright,...
My family came to Durango in the late 1800s and has been continuously there ever since, though I live in Farmington. Room 401 at the Strater Hotel, “The McCormick Family Room,” is named after my famil...
Our new president is sure signing his name a lot already. And he seems to want to show us each time he signs something. Unfortunately, his signature is not only illegible but also disturbing. Every ti...
My simple view of our government is outdated but consistent with our Constitution.
Our Congress negotiates (scary word here), compromises and passes a budget, sends it to the president who either acce...
Last month, I wrote about the coalition of rich and poor countries, of foundations and nonprofits that delivered family planning to 46 million women – FP2020. Its successor, FP2030, has continued the ...
As a resident of La Plata County, I’m really struggling with the being forced to live under a burgeoning form of a fascist government run by an authoritarian president along with billionaire oligarchs...
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