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David Brooks: Nonconformity must have a future; we need it

Like other realms, American intellectual life has been marked by a series of exclusions. The oldest and vastest was the exclusion of people of color from the commanding institutio...

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Virus not silly to informed Americans

Responding to Dick Riethmiller’s letter, I am appalled but not shocked, at his callous disregard for human life (“ Stating that only about 5% of people who get COVID-19 die and most of them...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I believe deeply in the Electoral College

This is in response to the letter “ The Electoral College is there for a reason, and I very much believe in it. If the Electoral College is done away with, it will then be the beginning of ...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Show the good cops you support them

In old Westerns, when bad guys were coming to town, citizens told the sheriff: “You have to save us! They’ll loot, burn, destroy us!” The sheriff vowed to do his job, but there wa...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Our view: How Native Americans won some of the vote

One day, 72 years ago this summer, Miguel Trujillo asked for his rights

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: It’s straight out of the fascist playbook

Federal law enforcement officers have the legal right to protect federal buildings and other federal property. They do not have the right to leap out of unmarked cars, heavily armed and in c...

DATE: Aug 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Havana’s angel is translated

Eusebio Leal faithfully served a communist dictatorship – and history

DATE: Aug 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: The day Columbus left Spain

The date seems to be one of the few things we have in this story with fair precision. It was Aug. 3, a Friday in the old Julian calendar; in 1492, an auspicious year. The place wa...

DATE: Aug 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: This poem is wise and thought-provoking

“And the people stayed home. And read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played games and learned new ways of being and were still. And listened more deeply. Some m...

DATE: Aug 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Why is there still a shortage of N95 masks?

Am I missing something here? The majority of people who are exposed to COVID-19 experience mild symptoms or no symptoms whatsoever. Yet all of those people are being asked to make significan...

DATE: Aug 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Richard Grossman: Looking for rain? Try reducing population growth

It is windy, hot and dry, dry, dry here. According to www.drought.gov, Durango is in an extreme drought. What’s going on? Do we need to start doing rain dances? Past droughts have...

DATE: Aug 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns