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Our view: Hooray for bump-outs

City has done a fine job moving ahead with making Main Avenue a piazza

DATE: Jul 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Jul 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Our view: A day for African-American champions

Althea Gibson, born to sharecroppers in Silver, South Carolina, in 1927 and reared in Harlem, was taught to box by her father, which led to a youth of street fights before her neighbors took...

DATE: Jul 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Forget reform and consider real justice

Under the dubious leadership of Bill Clinton, 27 years ago, 93 U.S. attorneys were fired. Over the years, our criminal justice system has been dumbed down to where in increasingly more state...

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

Letters: This is a reward and punishment society

It isn’t just Blacks, Natives, Latinos, Asians or any other culture in this country being seen as threatening, less than, ineffective, disposable, too different to accept, excluded and ignor...

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

Letters: Virus could have been handled better

I don’t pretend to have many answers but it seems to me that the handling of this pandemic could have been done in a better way. Certainly, in this case, the older population and those with ...

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

Letters: Fight for more equitable health care

An article in the The article goes on to add that “Although Congress mandated free coronavirus testing for uninsured persons, the order has not extended health coverage to those requiring t...

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

Letters: Masks and social distancing are working

If some people find it annoying to wear masks, I’d like to point out a clear example why we do. I recently came from Santa Cruz County, Arizona, population 46,000, mostly rural wi...

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

Denise Fort: Babbitt’s plan for the river doesn’t go far enough

Each spring, the acequias in New Mexico carry cold, clear snowmelt to freshly furrowed fields on small farms. The centuries-old irrigation culture is recognized in state law and supported by...

DATE: Jul 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: The bears come out and get in the trash

OK, County Road 203 residents! The bears are out and into trash. Thatâ€™s right, the bears are in the trash. Please place your trash cans out on the morning ...

DATE: Jul 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Michael Fields: State government needs to get out of the way

In the middle of a recession, the Legislature wants to raise your property taxes. State Sens. Jack Tate and Chris Hansen, along with Reps. Matt Soper and Dayena Esgar, led an eff...

DATE: Jul 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Extending mask order was a good move

Thank you to City Council for its courage and common sense for extending the mandatory mask order within Durango city limits. That is a great relief to many, who feel safer going ...

DATE: Jul 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor