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We need city help with speeders here

Today, April 8, I was out in front of my house on east 32nd Street. A car turned from 32nd onto East Third Avenue and sped excessively from 32nd Street north to the 33rd Street river put-in,...

DATE: Apr 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The patriot’s guide to fraud

North Carolina’s Dan McCready couldn’t accept that electoral tampering was no big deal

DATE: Apr 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

I fought for the college – and lost

I had to put up a fight this week. Some might say it was a David and Goliath attempt, or a blood from a turnip attempt. Whatever it was called, my attempt failed, but not for lack...

DATE: Apr 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the State House

They buy the fraud of climate change

I get more frustrated every day as so many people continue to call for and suggest means for reducing carbon dioxide saturation and continuing emissions. At the same time, I saw a post on Fa...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We are living in the age of mass deportations

In recent years, despite the fact that research clearly demonstrates that immigrants contribute to economic growth and safer communities, the deportation of immigrants has reached all-time h...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

No do-overs: There’s always the next election

Efforts to recall Democrats in Colorado are circular, impractical and lame

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Big win for Trump on U.S. policy toward Iran

It’s been nearly a year since Donald Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, to loud cries that it would bring nothing but woe to the United States and our interests ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Big idea behind National Popular Vote

Opponents of the National Popular Vote bill, recently signed into law in Colorado, fail to explain their defense of a system whereby 12 so-called battleground states hijack every presidentia...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bigger not always better, Durango Herald

Bigger is not always better. The enormous font on the comics and puzzles in the Durango Herald is not an improvement. More comics and puzzles would have been an improvement; inste...

DATE: Apr 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Senator Gardner, meet the carbon act

Thank you, Sen. Cory Gardner, for working with Sen. Michael Bennet and other lawmakers in a bipartisan fashion to request maximum funding for carbon capture, utilization and storage (both in...

DATE: Apr 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Kinds of mayor: How strong should she be?

Durango and Cortez have what once were progressive forms of government

DATE: Apr 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Politics trumped good policy on ‘red flag’ gun bill

On the subject of the highly debated “red flag” gun bill, I have stated before that the will of the majority often overrules the noise of the minority. Unfortunately, in line with...

DATE: Apr 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns