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Bret Stephens: On the compromises that are fatal to liberalism

In January, in what now seems like a bygone age, writer George Packer delivered a memorable speech, “The Enemies of Writing,” for the honor of winning the Hitchens Prize. “Why is...

Our view: Why not reparations?

Compensating its victims for slavery is an idea whose time has always come

Letters: Please stop with the cultural awareness

I grew up in Durango, left at 20 to join the military and am middle-aged now. I stumbled on this Tyler Smith Topeka, Kansas ...

Letters: Why don’t we check IDs at restaurants?

While we continue to look for ways of slowing COVID-19, some of it just doesn’t make any sense. We get excited about masks and distancing and ignore the vehicles coming to Durango every day ...

Letters: What if police ignored the drunk driver?

You speed you get a ticket; run a red light, you are cited; drive drunk and it’s jail time. All to protect the public. Now we have blatant disregard for laws to protect us and nothing being ...

Our view: Lessons learned from Jimmy Carter

We still have lessons to learn from the presidency of Jimmy Carter

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Letters: Keep climate change denial to yourself

I have to respond to Mike Sigman’s letter and accusation of indoctrination on climate change (“ Denial of climate change has been a PR stunt perpetrated by the fossil fuel industry. Frackin...

Letters: Help needed about Manzanares family

I am looking for my relatives from Ignacio and the surrounding farm area. My great-great-grandfather was Francisco Esteban Martinez who farmed until the 1930s in the Ignacio area. He married...

Letters: How do you define ‘breaking news’?

The tag line in the address bar for the online The entire town of Estes Park was evacuated because the second largest fire in the state had grown by somewhere around 140,000 acres in 24 ho...

Letters: How could you have been so duped?

This is to all the Republicans out there. You used to be the party of values and principles. Remember? You were hijacked by President Trump, who shared none of your pri...

Letters: Enough bullying – we’re all Americans

It seems to me that the definition of an American differs greatly depending on whom you talk to. To me and many others like me, you love your country and take pride in it. You ser...