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Our view: What Colorado voters were thinking

Lauren Boebert’s win was predictable; voters on taxes should have been

Letters: Too many loud motorcycles in Durango

Does Durango have a noise ordinance that would apply to loud motorcycles? If there is, why is not enforced? There are way too many extremely loud bikes – mostly Harleys. Many ri...

Letters: That ol‘ chicken is some pickleball hater

Why didn’t the chicken cross the road? It built a $4.1 million bridge instead. Why didn’t the prairie dog tunnel under the dangerous intersections? Because the chicken ...

Letters: We don’t need that costly, ugly bridge

If the city wants to spend over $3 million to enhance the river trail, why not use that money to make the entire river trail a better experience for everyone? Spending that money for one unn...

Letters: Jim, we need to talk about your thistle

Jim Cross in his letter writes of the qualities of the lowly thistle, which he defends as a maligned “Scottish immigrant” (“ Jim states that the thistle deserves recognition as Scotland’s n...

Letters: We are the best country in the world

The letter “ The U.S. COVID-19 mortality rate is lower than most of the major European countries. Japan is doing a great job of controlling the virus, but neither the U.S. nor Europe could ...

Letters: What does mayor need to keep us safe?

Regarding the The quote from Mayor Dean Brookie was even more disturbing: “We’re taking enforcement very seriously, but it all comes down to ... money and expenditure of resources.” ...

Our view: Who needs turnout?

The lowest since 1828 was a snoozer; the highest was too much excitement

On this day: Dewey does NOT defeat Truman

The Born into a wealthy Chicago family, McCormick took control of its paper in 1910. He served in World War I as an artillery officer, won promotion to colonel and was awarded the Distingu...

Letters: Trump: Politically incorrect but effective

There have been several recent letters and articles telling us that the economy is in the tank and that President Trump’s success with the economy is some kind of illusion. That is ridicul...

Letters: He’s pro-life but he doesn’t respect life

Donald Trump may be pro-life but he does not respect life. At the beginning of his presidency, his administration was having ICE separate children from their parents in immigrant families. T...

Letters: We need this Mitsch Bush in Congress

As a 42-year resident of Colorado Congressional District 3 and a former Gunnison County commissioner, I had the privilege to work with Diane Mitsch Bush while she was in the state Legislatur...