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Measures to simplify our ballots and protect farmers should be adopted

DATE: Sep 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

America needs to hear from Christine Blasey Ford

In amoral political terms, Senate Republicans have been skillful in handling Christine Blasey’s Ford’s allegations that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when ...

DATE: Sep 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Instant sheep expert? I don’t think so

Wow! It is amazing how Deb Morton, Pagosa Springs High School media specialist (Facebook), became an expert on sheep degradation of the Weminuche Wilderness in three days (“Sheep grazing is ...

DATE: Sep 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

City is already idiotic; no new taxes!

The city of Durango is asking its residents for property tax increases. It’s also asking city and county residents for a huge sales tax increase. For what? More wasteful spendi...

DATE: Sep 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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Two citizen-initiated propositions promise to fix roads. One will work.

DATE: Sep 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Congress must act on conservation fund

The benefits of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to sportsmen and sportswomen in Colorado are many. In fact, every county in the state has benefited from hundreds of LWCF projects that h...

DATE: Sep 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Methane emissions know no borders

Rollback on methane emissions is a danger to community health. It was just announced that the Environmental Protection Agency has released a replacement proposal for the former rules on meth...

DATE: Sep 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This amputee showed us how to win

When he was 4 years old, his mother found him in the kitchen with a knife. He was summoning the nerve to slice off his own fingers. This wasn’t because he was crazy but because h...

DATE: Sep 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

He shoots the sheriff, hits the deputies

“I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.” The Eric Clapton song seems to be the refrain of Charles Hamby and his posse of rhetorical assassins bent on lobbing lies and distortion...

DATE: Sep 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Get used to the new normal: The West is burning

California’s apocalyptic fires are a side effect of modern life – megafires, firenados, constantly drifting smoke. The words seem to come straight out of the latest apocalyptic superhero fli...

DATE: Sep 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

A tax for public safety? City council is confusing the issue

By John Ritchey Durango resident Two years ago, the Durango City Council unanimously voted to support the $100 million airport tax. Fortunately, the voters wisely and o...

DATE: Sep 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Invest in Durango; vote YES on 2A

What did your hair look like in 1982? That year was the last time the city of Durango asked for a property tax increase. On Oct. 15, ballots will drop for our consideration of a “Back to Bas...

DATE: Sep 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.