Newsletter Opinion

That’s not a tax cut, it’s a hike – yikes!

Under the new calculation,s my taxable income for 2017 (line 43) increased 216.0 percent. My taxes (line 44) increased by…

February 10, 2019

Thanks, governor. I love my electric car.

Supporting the transition to electric vehicles will save Coloradans money and allow us to breathe easier. The lifetime cost of…

From the State House

Let’s clear up some confusion over sex ed bill

The answer is simple math: 33, 18 and 1. It takes 33 votes to pass a bill out of the…

Fareed Zakaria

Not the best of all possible worlds – but close

On one side, President Trump and Fox News hosts slam the out-of-touch establishment that, according to them, has run things…

Ross Douthat

The Trump Doctrine

foreign policy, like it or not, this administration is exceeding expectations

From the Chair

County needs to surmount big challenges

In January, we said goodbye to County Manager Joanne Spina, who retired after 30 years with the county, and bid…

We need wolves now more than ever

Anyone who attended the Durango Wolf Symposium knows that this scientific meeting was about restoration and stewardship. Extirpation of wolves…

February 8, 2019

City’s tax is bait-and-switch proposal

The wording of the upcoming April ballot initiative, 1-A, to raise sales tax must be read carefully. The story from…

February 8, 2019

Editorials

Maybe nukes: A bold plan to get to zero emissions

the time come to consider reactors as a substitute for burning all this coal?

February 8, 2019

Feeling negative? Think of John McCain

This gentleman seems to believe that broad-based negative labels and attacks are a productive manner in which to effect change…

The Electoral College has had its day

By most accounts, the Electoral College was a political compromise crafted to reject direct democracy and one-person, one-vote. The original…

Guest Columns

GOP must stand up to Trump on immigration

Rather than quietly admitting defeat on his border wall stand, President Trump has punted the issue to a bipartisan group…

Why so long to determine fire’s cause?

The cause of the Camp Fire in California was found immediately and went bankrupt. What about you, Al Harper? What…

Editorials

Angry birds: Is Twitter making us useless?

Somewhere there’s a better world – it might not be on social media

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial cartoons

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February 6, 2019

Sex ed bill is what teens, parents need

Teens need comprehensive sex ed because most parents aren’t experts and it’s uncomfortable for them to answer our questions. And…

Blame Tipton for shutdown’s local costs

My recollection is he cost the Durango area several million dollars in the 2013 shutdown. Think about that. Our congressman…

David Brooks

Kamala Harris could be the fighter Dems need

She is an amazing amalgam of different elements – highly educated elite meritocrat, Oakland street fighter, crusading, rough-elbow prosecutor, canny…

Editorials

Heaven is a place: big-budget commercials flatter the West

of the Super Bowl ads made us feel lucky to be just where we are

Bring them all home and in one piece

I would urge all readers to call the White House switchboard and demand all troops be withdrawn from Syria. Call…

Dirty apartment and a potty mouth

I am a grandmotherly type who, when he asked me to mend his clothes, I did it. When his sink…

February 4, 2019