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Freed school lunch: Mother of slain worker sets examples

Mother of slain cafeteria supervisor wipes out Minnesota student meal debt

This planet is getting mighty crowded

Sure is good to be home in Durango after a five-week bike and drive trip in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Spain. One of the virtues of off-the-beaten-path travel is that one learns so much...

Uber’s IPO is a moral stain on Silicon Valley

In 2010, I received an email from an ecstatic employee at a startup called UberCab. “What our tiny company is doing for San Francisco right now is huge,” he told me. The employee’...

Thanks for Greg Ryder: I love you, man

“Life is Flyin’ By” – and one of our town’s most beautiful voices has been stilled (“Singer-songwriter dies in head-on crash north of Durango,” April 23). Greg Ryder’s voice, which I first h...

Spy birds: A vulture gets snared in Yemen’s civil war

A rare vulture left Bulgaria – and ended up arrested in Yemen

Poof! There goes another Infrastructure Week.

WASHINGTON – As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer sat down with President Trump at the White House last Tuesday to talk about an infrastructure bill, Trump’s a...

Why is it taking so long for fire report?

As the one-year anniversary of the 416 Fire nears, my heart continues to break for the loss of our precious dog due to the fire and for those who have endured similar loss in life and proper...

City guilty of neglecting Three Springs

Tax increases are inevitable and almost always necessary. However, democratic principles demand representation and concomitantly, prudent consideration of the needs of all parties. ...

Our military is like cab owners in the age of Uber

Early on a Sunday morning in 1932, a fleet of some 150 fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes struck the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The ships lying at anchor on Battleship Row...

Are Christians persecuted?

Political and cultural elites in the West can’t handle a clash of civilizations

What beautiful hearts you have, Durango

The Ryder family wishes to extend our sincerest gratitude to Durangoans for their sympathy and condolences in light of our dear Greg’s death. We – his brother, Noel, and I – witne...

We must fix problems at the sources of migration

In the United States, the sky is the limit when we think of solving problem through technological fixes but we lack imagination and confidence when it comes to dealing with social problems. ...