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Letters to the Editor

Thanks for Greg Ryder: I love you, man

Greg’s voice, a voice that evoked not only reverence for a simpler way of life and a respect for the…

May 7, 2019

Editorials

Spy birds: A vulture gets snared in Yemen’s civil war

A rare vulture left Bulgaria – and ended up arrested in Yemen

May 7, 2019

Dana Milbank

Poof! There goes another Infrastructure Week.

“Is an infrastructure deal realistic in 2019?” Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo asked Mick Mulvaney at a Milken Institute event…

May 6, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Why is it taking so long for fire report?

It is my understanding that the investigation has been done for some time and the report is completed. What I…

May 6, 2019

Letters to the Editor

City guilty of neglecting Three Springs

For example, consider the Three Springs district of Durango and the Grandview entrance to Durango: There is no transit service…

May 6, 2019

Guest Columns

Our military is like cab owners in the age of Uber

The ships lying at anchor on Battleship Row sustained direct hits. Also hit were the base’s fuel storage tanks and…

May 6, 2019

Ross Douthat

Are Christians persecuted?

Political and cultural elites in the West can’t handle a clash of civilizations

May 6, 2019

Letters to the Editor

What beautiful hearts you have, Durango

We – his brother, Noel, and I – witnessed his childhood evolve into the life he lived in Durango, but…

May 5, 2019

Guest Columns

We must fix problems at the sources of migration

When someone suggests cheap space travel to Mars no one would roll their eyes and say, “That will never happen.”…

May 5, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Zebra mussels threaten Lake Nighthorse

This species is invasive and can destroy every living thing in a lake. When the lake is dead, they rot…

May 4, 2019

Mike Littwin

Gov nixes vaccination legislation

And yet, there was a problem with the bill – a considerable problem. The problem was not that it was…

May 4, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Durango, stop crying in your craft beer

Definitely the theme was “woe is us.” Llewellyn’s big sadness was over the recent passage of increased restrictions on oil…

May 3, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Did I scrape the door of your truck?

By the time I could check in and obtain a pen and paper to leave a note, the truck was…

May 3, 2019

Editorials

Convention centers

they make sense for Cortez or Durango? It’s worth careful study.

May 3, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Marsha Porter-Norton for commission

We’ve been friends and colleagues for more than 20 years. Many years ago, Marsha directed a regional nonprofit, Operation Healthy…

May 3, 2019

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial cartoons

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May 2, 2019

Editorials

Michael Bennet

Colorado senator, with a clean bill of health, makes his presidential bid

May 2, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Times columnist is ignorant of the facts

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote an interesting column in the April 27 edition on the subject of…

May 2, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Legislators must act on plastic pollution

One of the worst forms of these products is Styrofoam (polystyrene), and Americans throw away an estimated 70 million plastic…

May 2, 2019

Guest Columns

A despicable cartoon in The New York Times

Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it. It did so in a cartoon in which a…

May 2, 2019

Letters to the Editor

High CEO pay, no lunch, we need change

Hypocrisy in our world! Women with unwanted pregnancies are forbidden by lawmakers, dictated to by religious leaders (in both cases…

May 2, 2019

Editorials

It’s just country: And it’s all good

It’s been two decades since Lucinda Williams recorded her classic album

May 2, 2019

Robert Samuelson

Candidates ignore cost of an aging population

The two programs alone constituted 45 percent of the non-interest federal budget in 2018, a share that the trustees say…

May 1, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Greg Ryder leaves a hole in our hearts

His absolute love and adoration of his wife Julie. His love of his kitty cats. Being one of the best…

May 1, 2019