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Farhad Manjoo: Is Amazon’s store just too good to be broken up?

Amazon is a genie of consumerist wishes, and it keeps growing more irresistible. The company’s online store has always been convenient and plentiful, but in the last year, Amazon ...

DATE: Feb 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Hooray for capitalism and saving Earth

Two of the largest asset managers may be lining up to support environment, social and governance principles. Blackrock CEO’s annual message: “Climate change has become a defining factor in c...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Climate nonsense dreamed up by profs

The mainstream press and our “climate scientists” have been hyping global warming/climate change (and now, climate crisis and even climate catastrophe) for the last 30 years, as another disa...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Bridge? Not in my neighborhood, thanks

I live two blocks from the proposed bridge over 32nd Street and I couldnâ€™t believe it, or the cost, when I first heard about it. I was equally surprised when I heard that Buckle...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: We should generate our own energy

Tri-State Generation and Transmission supplies energy to over a million consumers in the western United States, including through our own electric cooperative, LPEA. Tri-State re...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Ross Douthat: The Bloomberg temptation – and the peril

For a long time, the notion of a Michael Bloomberg presidential candidacy seemed like a Manhattan fancy, a conceit with elite appeal but no mass constituency, a fantasy for Acela riders who ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Our view: OR-54 will come again no more

We got melancholy news the other day about the gray wolf known as OR-54, for Oregon, where In the last three months of 2019, she journeyed more than 1,000 miles through six California coun...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Electoral College is great the way it is

This is in response to the letter “ Our forefathers had the wisdom to insure that one group of people does not cram its decisions down our throats, like for example, people in big cities di...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

David Brooks: It was education that made Scandinavia great

Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic productivity, high social equality, high social trust and high levels of pers...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letters: Did Bloomberg buy the Durango Herald?

The Durango Herald editorial board’s endorsement of Michael Bloomberg is just plain wrong on so many levels. First of all, no real reasons for the endorsement are provided other t...

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Bridge advocates don’t tell whole story

I think it’s disingenuous to rally support for the controversial 32nd Street bridge project around safety concerns, because if you took pedestrian/auto incident reports for a number of other...

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor