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Our view: Some of the lesser bills in the state Legislature

Several smaller bills pending in the Legislature seek simple fixes

DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Call your councilors and stop this bridge!

I am alarmed about the proposed and approved bridges at 32nd Street, especially after seeing a ground-level rendering as well as the astronomical price tag which has just kept increasing for...

DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Council must stop this terrible bridge

You captured every single thing wrong with the proposed pedestrian bridge in your recent editorial (“ I frequently walk the length of the river trail and no other bridge design smacks the e...

DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: As a doctor, I prescribe Medicare for All

Health insurance is supposed to protect us from debilitating medical bills. But many of my patients find that when they need care, commercial insurance does not provide adequate protection. ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: The captured field marshal

Friedrich Paulus never knew defeat

DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Ross Douthat: Andrew Jackson goes hunting in the Persian Gulf

There’s a witticism that makes the rounds on Twitter whenever Donald Trump does something particularly plutocratic or corrupt, a variation on the following: Look, this is what all those folk...

DATE: Jan 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Letters: To the other animals, we’re all Nazis

On Jan. 27, the world will observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date marks 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hitler’s largest death camp. It’s a...

DATE: Jan 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Melissa Youssef: We’re checking the city budget more than twice

Small-town politics are unique because local residents are connected to each other in so many ways. We are friends, neighbors and co-workers. We experience multi-layered community relationsh...

DATE: Jan 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Laura Packard: Let’s spotlight Gardner’s real record

In Sen. Cory Gardner’s op-ed for this paper (“ I’m a stage 4 cancer survivor. I moved to Colorado at the beginning of last year because I needed to keep my health insurance, despite all of ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: We need help with transit

Bayfield! Why have you cut your share of funding to Roadrunner Transit? Itâ€™s the only public transportation that connects Durango, Bayfield and Ignacio. For years, RRT has done ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Is there no way to stop this horrible bridge?

While I applaud Durango’s investment in Parks and Recreation and specifically the Animas River Trail, the renderings of the proposed new pedestrian bridge at 32nd Street are simply horrible....

DATE: Jan 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor