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Labor Day: Holiday arrives in time of uncertainties over healthcare, housing, immigration

Holiday arrives in time of uncertainties over healthcare, housing, immigration

Smith; Durango, and nation, hoped war’s end near

With the shock of the second atomic bomb being dropped, Americans wondered how much longer Japan could hold out. Surrounded by naval ships, relentlessly bombed, and defeated thro...

Westendorff: Mesa will carry our county fair legacy forward

It has been a couple of weeks now, but I’m still feeling nostalgic for the La Plata County Fair, which is a highlight for me as a resident and a county commissioner. This year’s ...

Williams: Sportsmen can thank themselves for the attack on public lands

“I’m a Teddy Roosevelt conservationist,” declares Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Really? Roosevelt pushed and ultimately signed the Antiquities Act of 1906 that gave presidents the authority...

Monuments review: Secrecy is the wrong way to approach public land discussions and decisions

The public has not seen Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s draft recommendations to President Donald Trump about changing the size and use of several national monuments. Since the topic is publ...

Bear proof: Emergency ordinance needed to effect change in human and bear behavior

Bears are following their noses (and using their memories) and dining in Durango seemingly like never before. They have entered a couple of automobiles and done a lot of damage looking for t...

Editorial cartoons

Bruni: America’s worst (and best) places to be gay

All my life I’ve loved Texas: those big skies, big steaks and big attitudes. I’m there several times a year. But Texas doesn’t love me back. Certainly its lawmakers don’t, and lat...

Time to remove all references to Cortez

Calling all people who live in Southwest Colorado! Did you know that Cortez is named after a genocidal, privileged man who slaughtered thousands of indigenous people and stole al...

Arts economy: Creative district a positive step toward supporting arts, culture and community

The arts mean business in the city of Durango. That was the message delivered earlier this month by Americans for the Arts in a report, “Arts & Economic Prosperity,” partly commissioned by t...

Use of boot is bad for local businesses

Recently my car was booted while legally parked on 3rd Ave. My wife, who had driven my car that day, discovered this after she left work at 5 p.m., and the parking office was closed. ...

Douthat: Our house divided

Summertime, sweltering and stressful, makes our cold civil war feel hot. The madness and violence of last year crested in the summer, with the shootings of cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge. No...