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Letters: Porter-Norton is fair and hardworking

I am writing this letter in support of Marsha Porter-Norton, a candidate for Plata County Commission in the upcoming November election. Marsha has been a tireless contributor to t...

Our view: Some justice in killing of Irish journalist Lyra McKee

It was nearly a year ago that we told you about Lyra McKee, the 29-year-old Irish journalist shot and killed in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, presumably by members of the New IRA, bitter-en...

Letters: Thank you, Road Runner Transit drivers

Road Runner Transit has stepped up to help the Bayfield riders of RRT. But the funding Bayfield gave only left RRT with a big problem for both Durango Transit and RRT. The RRT dri...

Letters: The 2020 election could already be over

Trump is the greatest danger this country has ever faced. Even if the Democrats win the 2020 presidential election, that is not a guarantee that he and his neo-Nazis will relinquish power. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Letters: Bridge? Not in my neighborhood, thanks

I live two blocks from the proposed bridge over 32nd Street and I couldn’t believe it, or the cost, when I first heard about it. I was equally surprised when I heard that Buckle...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...