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Happy Fourth!

Fourth of July has long been a time to consider liberty and duty

July 3, 2019

Joe Biden doesn’t look so electable in person

It was just a couple of weeks after he’d reversed his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal…

July 2, 2019

Tear up the economics textbooks and start over!

But the 61-year-old’s authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Mankiw’s power derives from his position as…

July 1, 2019

What’s the deal with this judge again?

Tyler Smith pleads guilty for felony evading for his 20 minute chase with police and gets three years in “community…

July 1, 2019

Recall socialist governor while we can

Legislation passed to end the Electoral College in Colorado deprives voters of their rights and should be repealed. The new…

July 1, 2019

Southern Utes can protect wildlife corridors

But the idea actually goes back thousands of years to when indigenous peoples had great respect for big game trails.…

June 30, 2019

Why do you have this belching train?

With climate change in mind, we chose not to support pollution by purchasing tickets. In addition, the air quality on…

June 30, 2019

Youth sports just as rowdy in Durango

I had the not-so-great pleasure of officiating Adult (pre-school) basketball games in the winter/spring of 2018. Each night was filled…

June 29, 2019

We’re more than OK with community support

As I remember, he praised the new benches in downtown Durango as a way to promote community. I was reminded…

June 29, 2019

Animas River Trail a glorious work in progress

City council has worked hard throughout June and made significant progress on a number of important projects. I’m very optimistic…

June 29, 2019

Ears and a tail

Sen. Kamala Harris scored winner in second debate – if this were boxing

Letter got Mueller statement wrong

In his May 29 statement, Mueller indicated that the investigation did in fact find that Russian intelligence officers had launched…

It happened with New Mexico TV, too

I grew up in Union County, and the media coverage there always came from Texas and the Amarillo area. While…

Councilwoman is a good communist

Guarding students

Documents in the STEM Highlands case give pause about armed school security

Are they ready?

debate leaves more questions than answers and has a few surprises

Leave the Holocaust out of everything

the Holocaust out of everything

Democrats right about Tipton concerns

This seems to me more of an understandable mistake than a misrepresentation and, in fact, there is more to the…

Fake meat will save us from climate change

I don’t mean to slight the surging U.S. women’s team, but the plant-based protein slab made nearly as big an…

Maybe, at long last, China is the paper tiger

If accurate, it would mean that one in four Hong Kongers was out in the streets fighting Chinese encroachment. While…

June 26, 2019

Supremes strike blow for First Amendment

This seems like low-hanging fruit, although the Court had scarcely grabbed for it before: Where, pray tell, did the Commerce…

June 26, 2019