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Letter: Return train departures to downtown Durango

For anyone who participated in the April 2 meeting with the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNGR) representatives, La Plata County Manager Chuck Stevens, Colorado Department of ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Wildfire fund will help mitigate the inevitable

Thank you for your story about the Southwest Wildfire Impact Fund (SWIF) (March 25,”Durango, La Plata County look to new funding model for fire mitigation”). In 2020, Colorado bro...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Fifth-grader conducts survey about Toh-Atin sign

I’m Julia and I’m 10, writing as a fifth-grade student. I have recently been interested in the Toh-Atin statue downtown as a project we have done in school. I made a ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Support media literacy bill for schools

Many of us learned to decipher media in much simpler times. We had a limited number of news outlets, most of which adhered to the same standards of reporting. Our teachers and librarians mer...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Would you want the train in your neighborhood?

I have one question for officials Jeff Johnson and John Harper of Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad: How would they like it if their neighborhood was invaded by hundreds of speeding ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Lodgers tax will equal ‘paradise lost’

We’re all for a lodgers tax, but be careful what you wish for. My husband and I moved to Durango recently from what used to be “paradise” on the Gulf coast of Florida, near some ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Columnist justifies ‘Republican depravity’

Dennis Pierce’s piece (April 4, “Democrats have promised, failed on border security”) is a work of Republican propaganda that seeks to hold Democrats responsible for our nation’s immigra...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Laurie Roberts: Schools needs counselors, not cops

I’m writing from a perspective I don’t see often enough in our shared deliberations about Colorado’s epidemic of gun violence. I am a school psychologist. Every public school has...

DATE: Apr 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Caden Voss: Carbon removal stategies can help save us

Editor’s note: Caden Voss, author of this article, is a student in a gifted and talented students’ fifth-grade class at Park Elementary taught by Sarah Strouthopoulos. As the temperature...

DATE: Apr 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Shelby Haley: It’s not too late to slow climate change

Editor’s note: Shelby Haley, author of this article, is a student in a gifted and talented students’ fifth-grade class at Park Elementary taught by Sarah Strouthopoulos.An ice cap breaks...

DATE: Apr 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Mike Littwin: Will vaccines forestall doom in Colorado?

If you’re not confused by the latest news/recommendations on the coronavirus, I have to confess that you’re way ahead of me. In his news conference Monday, Jared Polis announced —...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns