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Brat lion’s OK

He had a bad couple of days in Walsenburg last fall but he’s free now

We need Bennet and Gardner on climate

Wildfire season looms on the horizon in Colorado. Due to snow and rain this winter and spring, wildfires this year will likely be less severe compared to last year’s. However, according to a...

Liberalism and homeless: coincidence?

Is it just a coincidence in Durango and cities all over America that the more liberal they become, the more major crises they are facing? The homeless situation has escalated as l...

Semyon Rosenfeld has gone, and a link to a past stranger than fiction

Semyon Rosenfeld died Monday at 97. He expired in a small hospital in Israel – but that may be the last reason to note he is with us no more. Rosenfeld, a Jew, was born in 1922 in...

The brave and scary new world of trading blocs

WASHINGTON – We may be on the cusp of an upheaval in global trade. Since World War II, the international trading system has operated on the premise of “most favored nation (MFN),”...

Workers need protection from homeless

Recently, two Los Angeles city employees contracted diseases related to the mess caused and left by homeless camps. Durango city employees see the exact type of mess caused by and...

Forest Service needs to use chains saws

In the recent article detailing the Forest Service and the chain saw exemption (“ While certainly possible, the time for this accomplishment was not mentioned, and it is likely that this wa...

Ahoy, dog

The Animas got bigger than a goose and a collie combined

When Kipling met the Trump resistance

If you can accept a cascade of lies when the truth is self-evident; if you gravitate toward short-term economic gain by exploitation of fossil fuels, disregarding the long-term disaster of g...

Harriet Tubman will always have the last laugh

WASHINGTON – When Donald Trump invites historical comparisons, it is usually to his detriment. Even so, the Trump administration’s recent snubbing of Harriet Tubman in favor of ex...

A cold morning

75 years ago, allied forces and Lt. Robert Edlin triumphed in Normandy

Harriet Tubman will always have the last laugh

WASHINGTON – When Donald Trump invites historical comparisons, it is usually to his detriment. Even so, the Trump administration’s recent snubbing of Harriet Tubman in favor of ex...