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Fire protection

Questions for November ballot sound complicated, but would simplify things

Sweet spat in Telluride

While critics of Durango’s City Council’s recent action to require a fee for the use of one-use plastic and paper bags at the four largest food retailers in town gather the signatures needed...

Small hydro

A positive step toward cleaner energy, but larger issues must also be addressed

Phyllis Lee

A lifetime of service to the people of La Plata County and Southwest Colorado

Multiple use and public lands

Broad offerings go well beyond forest’s trees

Student-loan rates

Congress, president reach necessary deal to keep higher education attainable

Broncos on TV

Udall’s deal gives S.W. Colorado one year of its favorite team

Mining in Silverton

Town must take decisive action to transition from past to future

Transparency

Hickenlooper wrong: Back-room deals may be efficient, but they do not reveal the ‘why’

La Plata County Fair

Celebrate the area’s industry, crafts and agricultural heritage at annual shindig

School finance

With almost certainly enough signatures, the real battle for better schools has begun

Toll roads

Transportation is still an appropriate function of the federal government