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Fed shouldn’t pick a fight with President Trump

WASHINGTON – ”To the barricades.” That’s one way to characterize Bill Dudley’s idea that the Federal Reserve fight off President Trump’s attacks. It’s a bad idea, but it also shows the defec...

DATE: Sep 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Guess who’s got a beef with Polis now?

Like many Americans, Gov. Jared Polis has been intrigued lately by the promise of plant-based meat alternatives from companies such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. He is not ...

DATE: Sep 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Democrats need to meet some people

Democrats are the party that disregards biology, saying that people can change their sex by wishing it; the party that refutes the biological facts of life at conception, though also the par...

DATE: Sep 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The homeless are children of God, too

The best measure of the morality of a country is how it treats its most needy citizens. If Ms. Norma Byrd’s words are any measure (“ What is evident now is that the placing of nearly every ...

DATE: Sep 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Facing up to it

Ripping pink Band-Aids off is worthwhile

DATE: Sep 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

There is a way we can tax carbon now

Thank you for your insightful editorial “ France did suspend its fuel/carbon tax after the Yellow Vests revolt. Reducing consumption of fossil fuels (and the greenhouse gasses) by raising t...

DATE: Sep 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

No nukes, no wars, no more imperialism

I am the Unity Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Colorado. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed on Aug. 27, 1928. It outlaws war as a tool of foreign policy. The United ...

DATE: Sep 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

I know firsthand about buried atomic-age dangers

In May, 1955, the U.S. Navy participated in a test of a nuclear depth charge 500 miles off the coast of San Diego. The explosion was powerful enough that a merchant ship leaving S...

DATE: Sep 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

This is what’s right about health care

Recently, I received a letter announcing the retirement of Dr. Joe Murphy after 36 years in practice. Dr. Murphy grew up in Durango and came back to practice in the town he loved....

DATE: Sep 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

River stakeholders leave sterling legacy

I’m the director of reclamation operations for Sunnyside Gold Corporation. We would like to thank the Animas River Stakeholders Group, which will be ceasing operations after 25 years of play...

DATE: Sep 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Reverse shocking city rules on nonprofit funding

Fact: Nonprofit organizations enrich our community in many ways. During my hikes, I regularly meet new arrivals who have relocated to Durango. Almost invariably, we end up talking...

DATE: Sep 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Where’s attorney when we need him?

An article in the Cortez Journal stated that the 416 Fire which started in June of 2018 was started by sparks from the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train. The next month of ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor