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Ezra Klein: Let’s launch a moonshot for meatless meat

I’m a vegan, but I’m also a realist. There’s no chance humanity is going to give up meat, en masse, anytime soon. That said, we can’t just wish away the risks of industrial animal agricultur...

DATE: May 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Support the $15 minimum wage

This letter recognizes the struggles with low-paying jobs and the factors of increasing unemployment and taxes. According to the Economic Policy Institute, “A majority (59%) of w...

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: We’ll take those cocktails to go, please

To-go, delivery drinks help restaurants

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Tracy Jones: Guilty verdict for Chauvin is relief, not victory

The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial is a relief, but not a victory. A victory is when we no longer need a witness to record the murder of a Black man in order to reciev...

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Keep up COVID-19 safety protocols

Summer is coming, but that doesn’t mean COVID-19 is leaving. As of April 25, data from the CDC states that only 28.5% of the United States population is fully vaccinated, with an extra 8% of...

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letter: Cruz’s response to Biden speech shows he slept through it

Having listened to both Biden’s speech and Ted Cruz’s response, two things are overwhelmingly obvious. First, Cruz is one of the most want-to-be “Caucasian” Hispanics I have ever s...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Threat of authoritarianism is real

This week, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who came to power in 2010 with his Fidesz Party, has taken over the Orbán already has taken over Hungary’s judiciary and news media, refuse...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Barbara McLachlan: Colorado agriculture is nonpartisan

My grandfather was a mover and shaker in the Colorado sugar-beet industry with Great Western Sugar, and he was also a professor of agriculture at Colorado State University. But the agricultu...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mike Littwin: Gun-violence bills in state won’t be matched in Congress

Give credit to Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg and others in the state legislature who, in the wake of the Boulder King Soopers shooting, are trying to actually do something about gun v...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Lawrence S. Wittner: Despite COVID-19, other crises, major powers increased military spending in 2020

Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe econ...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.