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Useless knowledge can beget brand new horizons

Noting the way in which the concerns of modern education increasingly turned toward worldly problems and practical vocations, Flexner made…

January 7, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Plow drivers: What about our property?

Today about noon (Jan. 2) a county plow came through County Road 203 and knocked over several full trash bins…

January 7, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Keep pushing back on city spending

It does not appear that the ski fees sustain the anticipated $75,120 cost to run the ski hill, let alone…

January 7, 2019

Editorials

Some justice

Federal criminal reform is a great first step. Many more steps are needed.

January 7, 2019

Letters to the Editor

These parks projects are boondoggles

Barb mentions multimillion dollar projects being proposed that are indeed questionable. She also mentions the millions of dollars that the…

January 7, 2019

Paul Krugman

Here’s how a Green New Deal could be practical

I’ll be astonished if there are bipartisan deals on anything important – even on infrastructure, where both sides claim to…

January 6, 2019

Letters to the Editor

What will our grandchildren ask us?

A young lady seated behind me had an emphatic reply – “for climate change not to be real.” I also…

January 6, 2019

From the Chair

Fire, drought and flood defined 2018 for county

I hope your holiday season was restful, festive and joyous and that 2019 is off to a great start already.…

January 5, 2019

Ross Douthat

Trump 2019

Untamed or contained?

January 5, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Tri-State has dirty coal and no Plan B

Coal is the most damaging fuel to our environment, climate and health. It’s also too expensive to sell, except in…

January 5, 2019

Editorials

Staggering, stupid

Florida men plead guilty to trophy poaching of mule deer and antelope

January 4, 2019

Letters to the Editor

We need to get rid of minimum wage

The time has come to eliminate the minimum wage and to associate what an individual is paid with education and…

January 4, 2019

From the Mayor

Our Durango will capture your heart

We all may have had difficult days, and now let’s look forward to healthier and happy times. Is your cup…

January 4, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Tipton needs to hear from us on climate

She lost the race to be our representative to Congress to our current representative, Rep. Scott Tipton, who in 2015…

January 4, 2019

David Brooks

It’s the year of the wolf – and not in any good way

On his deathbed, Pavel tells the story of how they came to emigrate there. Many years before, back in Russia,…

January 3, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Hospitals, insurers are ripping us off

Every layer of our current insurance system includes costs for administrators, marketers, lobbyists, lawyers and advertisers. This adds up to…

January 3, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Thinking green gets it wrong — again

In his Dec. 16 Thinking Green column (“Change confronts rural electric co-ops”), he claims Tri-State is “unresponsive to the needs…

January 3, 2019

Editorials

It was just a song

of Islamic fundamentalism ran through blameless Colorado town

January 2, 2019

David Brooks

Awards for long-form ideas journalism, continued

In one striking part of the essay, which appeared in The Atlantic, Julian shows that fewer young people are having…

January 1, 2019

Letters to the Editor

President Trump is a very big, big liar

Trump in his mind has made America great again by hanging around criminals starting with his lawyer and others and…

January 1, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Editorial on Mideast is a Trumpian insult

The Trumpian tantrum headline surely calls to mind Charles Lindbergh’s pro-Nazi isolationism just before World War II. Unless you are…

January 1, 2019

Editorials

Street life

a new argument about the homeless in Seattle hold lessons for us?

January 1, 2019

Dana Milbank

Trump finally found conspiracy he doesn’t believe

“Are you still a believer in Santa?” Trump asked an unsuspecting 7-year-old, Collman Lloyd, when she called in to the…

December 31, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Don’t be swayed by the anti-tax crowd

Durango has been fortunate to have had many years of gas tax revenues that contributed to our economy. But with…

December 31, 2018