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Hero worship: Jimmy Carter and us

I was on a Baptist mission trip in Southeast Asia in 1976 when a newspaper appeared at my motel door proclaiming Jimmy Carter as winner of the U.S. presidential election. Local people asked ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Trump pardons gross miscarriage of justice

Found guilty, pleaded so or charged, 1,600 individuals who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are free, or will be within hours or days. For most, there was no doubt as to the extent of the...

DATE: Jan 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Affordable health care for Southwest Colorado, deadline 11:59 p.m.

Health care has become a deadly business. Last month’s murder of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, has become a symbol of the illness long plaguing America’s health care industry: The ...

DATE: Jan 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: No to industrial rezoning next to Cortez open space

All it takes is one look at Independent Log Co.’s northeast property line where it meets the trailhead for the 72-acre Carpenter Natural Area to understand that the city of Cortez should fla...

DATE: Jul 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Call for letters to the editor. What’s on your mind?

A favorite task in our Opinion section is to review letters to the editor, with readers sharing what’s on their minds with us and other community members. We revel in the exchange of ideas....

DATE: Jul 19, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Have we lost our sense of humor?

Numerous comedians have stopped performing at college campuses because they have found the students to be overly politically correct and overly sensitive to their jokes. Jerry Seinfeld, Chri...

DATE: Jul 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Fireworks envy

Durango drone show a dud as neighbors equate patriotism with explosives

DATE: Jul 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Florida these days

DATE: Jun 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon: On the road again

DATE: Jun 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Nuggets on home court

DATE: Jun 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Thank you, doctors, who spoke about tubal surgery

There’s risk in speaking out. We journalists knew this when we signed up for this profession. We also have the First Amendment as backup to protect our free speech. But obstetricians, gyneco...

DATE: Jun 2, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion