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Letter: Here’s an inventory of Rim Drive trash

Recent letters have discussed the misuse and abuse of the overlooks on Rim Drive. As a person who regularly walks and bikes the college mesa roads and regularly picks up litter, let me sha...

DATE: Apr 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Why didn’t county review train’s increased activity in Rockwood?

Google search a little history of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad. The Durango narrow gauge never used Rockwood station other than as a coal stop or turning wye and maintenance. The town of...

DATE: Apr 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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DATE: Apr 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

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DATE: Apr 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

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DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Nicholas Kristof: Oregon loggers, environmentalists collaborate

JOHN DAY, Ore. — One of the most venomous battles in our polarized nation is the one that has unfolded between loggers and environmentalists in timber towns like John Day, in the snow-capped...

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Paul Krugman: America needs to empower workers again

Labor activists hoped that the unionization vote at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse would be a turning point, a reversal in the decades-long trend of union decline. What the vote showed, ...

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Our View: Durango’s unsheletered are us

Recently, we received a letter to the editor in which the author claimed that most people who are homeless in Durango are from “somewhere else” and should go back there. We heard the echo of...

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Steve Mandell: Western Slope Democrats shouldn’t assume GOP losses are their gains

Three recent events say a lot about where the 3rd Congressional District is heading: Republicans embarrass themselves and shed supporters. Changes in voter registration since the...

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Barbara McLachlan: Civics must be taught more thoroughly

If you watch enough national news, it’s easy to think that Democrats and Republicans rarely speak, always argue, refuse to compromise and have nothing in common. Fortunately, in C...

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns