O.R. in CO: Welcoming the Outdoor Retailer Show to Colorado provides a cautionary tale

The front page of the Jan. 17 edition of The Norwood Post features a picture of the Six Dollar String Band, a Durango-based Bluegrass band, playing at the Livery stage after the running of t...

Dan Snowberger: Durango 9-R superintendent has earned a contract extension through June 2020

What have you done for us lately? That is the question we tend to ask when non-elected public officials come up for promotions, raises and contract extensions. In th...

Editorial cartoon

Schultz: A second wave of reflection

For decades, an old metal sign used to hang over the toolshed at the coal-fired plant where my father worked. Now it sits on top of the bookcase in my campus office. It is about 2...

Mannix: True credit goes to Fiedler, volunteers

It was a delight and surprise to be selected Citizen of the Year by the Durango Chamber of Commerce. My thanks go out to Jack Lewellyn, Rita Simon, the members of the Chamber and so many mor...

Goad: Public lands inspire entrepreneurism, attract Outdoor Retailer

One day we packed up our FJ Cruiser and headed to Alaska. It was a road trip of epic proportions — camping and exploring all across the open lands of the West. (No, we didn’t have an Instagr...

Friedman: The tweet Trump could never send Tehran

After violent protests recently exploded across Iran, President Donald Trump vowed to differentiate himself from President Barack Obama by openly tweeting his support for the demonstrators. ...

Beisch: There’s a fine line between war and peace

A missile controller is sitting at a computer terminal on a missile base in Colorado. This appears on his screen: “Incoming missile Hawaii. Impact 15 minutes.” Immediately, the N...

Brooks: Democrats go for the jugular! (Their own)

The Republicans are led by a bigoted, incompetent president whose approval ratings are near historic lows. The Republicans in Congress embrace one unpopular policy option after another, so t...

Atkinson: Time for Tipton to join climate caucus

I am a conservative Republican and value integrity, freedom, and personal responsibility. Like a growing number of Americans, I am concerned about our current administration’s p...

‘Frozen out’: Secretary Zinke ignored NPS advisory board members until they walked away

In the normal course of political transitions, appointees of the former administration know they may be replaced by people more amenable to the new administration’s positions. So...

Samuelson: China and the global race for new technology

WASHINGTON – The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial “Science & Engineering Indicators,” a voluminous document describing the state o...