Bye: Returning guns to their proper role in society

Finally, it seems like our country is poised to start a real gun control debate, and it had better be more substantial than business-as-usual. It seems like a consensus could dev...

Weiser: Standing up for fair treatment of all Coloradans

Miranda Ellis didn’t think she’d need a lawyer. Then she learned that fraudsters had used a phony check to drain her checking account of money she’d saved to pay for college. Joel...

Olsen: Mitsch Bush is a champion for change for the 3rd CD

It is time for change in Colorado. We all must use our voices — and our votes — to signal the change we want for our state, and our country. Electing Diane Mitsch Bush for the 3rd...

Here’s to hoping the passion of the young prevails

I was born in 1949. I was old enough but too immature, too sheltered and insufficiently civic-minded to join protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War mounted by braver people my...

Editorial cartoon

Getting something done on school safety

We have formed a group that is focused on safer schools here in Durango. There will be a forum later in March to discuss the proposals that we are suggesting to the district. These are: ...

Student walkout: An opportunity for youth locally and nationally to lead the way on gun safety

Building on the frustration of the lack of gun safety in our schools and nation, expressed so articulately and emotionally by the students of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, yout...

Harrop: In facing Russia, we don’t even have a Neville Chamberlain

“Darkest Hour” follows Winston Churchill’s struggle to rouse Britain to confront the Nazi menace. Winning the war was step two. Step one, the movie’s theme, was to get the country to agree t...

Kristof: I saw a genocide in slow motion

RAKHINE STATE, Myanmar – Sono Wara spent the day crying. And even after her tear ducts emptied, her shirt was still wet from leaking milk. Her newborn twins had died the previous ...

Kent: Let’s have a conversation about gun control

Friends, the time has come for our country to have a sane, reasonable conversation about gun control and the Second Amendment. The carnage and heartache simply is not stopping and soon enoug...

Kelton: I’m not supporting “NRA bought” candidates

Colorado voters should be aware that Senator Cory Gardner received the 5th largest campaign contribution from the NRA, an unbelievable $3.88 million dollars. It will be interesti...

Petersen: The loonies are loose

Long ago, America’s greatest Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, cautioned that due to its populist nature, the process of democracy will always be under attack by a frenetic “lunatic ...