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City: instead of asking us to pay more...

Durango’s 2015 half-penny tax is for “recreational facilities, parks, trails, pedestrian and bicycle improvements,” and also for “the urban forest.” All multi-modal projects are funded by th...

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We’re ready for Colorado news now too

We are tired of not receiving Colorado news and programing while we applaud the efforts which are bearing fruit for families in Durango (“Denver news comes to Southwest Colorado via city of ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

China’s strategy no surprise to uranium producers

A frequent geopolitical story throughout 2018 has been the deliberate efforts of Russia and China to undermine U.S. national security. Using trade and policy programs, they target...

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Resistance couldn’t convert votes into seats

For months we’ve heard from sundry media apocalypticians that this year’s midterms were the last exit off the road to autocracy. Last Tuesday, the American people delivered a less dramatic v...

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Who are these pro-slavery Coloradans?

Quick question, please. I understand that many of us are angry. I understand many of us are confused, full of frustration, fear and/or something. My questio...

DATE: Nov 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump is a happy loser; ’bye, Otter!

Wow, Jeff Sessions was gone before they finished counting votes in Arizona. Do you think Donald Trump was trying to change the subject? Everybody knew he’d get a new attorney gene...

DATE: Nov 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gail Collins

Trump, under scrutiny and even more unleashed

Well, that was bittersweet. I’m not sure I would call Tuesday’s election results the blue wave many expected, but liberals absolutely made progress – and history – as Democrats as...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Republican blowout? What did I miss?

Headlines claiming a Republican Senate blowout are perplexing. Let me know if I missed something. In four ruby-red states that Trump won by an average of 25 percent in 2016 and ca...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The newest, ancient, Colorado native cutthroat

There is a new – but ancient – branch on the cutthroat trout family tree, the San Juan cutthroat. Recently, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced that biologists have discovered cutthroat tr...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Voting was grand, pizza made it better

It has been my pleasure to work as an election judge at most elections since I came to Durango 20 years ago. This election day, I was at the polling center at the fairgrounds. It ...

DATE: Nov 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

If we could kill the insurance companies

The World Health Organization of the United Nations annually ranks its 191 member nations on the effectiveness of their health care systems. These enlightening statistics are available at th...

DATE: Nov 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor