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Letters to the Editor

I want Durango to leverage the wealthy

I want it to be known as more than a place to drink beer and ski by college students and…

December 31, 2018

Editorials

Our opinion year

endorsements to a space dog, plus your letters, it was a time had by all

December 31, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Articles about Snowberger are unhelpful

He is present in classrooms, giving him an accurate feel for what is happening in his district. He wants to…

December 31, 2018

Letters to the Editor

The season to thank locals on 416 Fire

They are the professionals (career and volunteer) who every day are making a difference in people’s lives; and most of…

December 30, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Skyridge must be made safe from fire

Skyridge residents live at the interface of open land with dense oak brush forest and a lot of dead timber.…

December 30, 2018

From the U.S. Senate

How Coloradans scored breakthrough on hemp

Over the next four years, Colorado’s hemp industry boomed. From 2014 to 2018, our hemp cultivation increased six-fold. As the…

December 29, 2018

Guest Columns

No one deserves citizenship

what moral grounds can we deny others rights, privileges and opportunities that we did not earn ourselves?

December 29, 2018

Dana Milbank

We’re unable to take your call, we’re dysfunctional

“We apologize, but due to the lapse in federal funding we are unable to take your call. Once funding has…

December 29, 2018

Guest Columns

Trump is bad for Israel – and the entire Mideast

These past few weeks haven’t exactly validated your faith in the man, have they? You can track the performance of…

December 28, 2018

Letters to the Editor

These stupid, reckless, selfish drivers

Recently, within three days, I was almost involved in two different automobile accidents as a result of two stupid, impatient…

December 28, 2018

Editorials

They went West

Colorado keeps growing in the Front Range, which could be our silver lining

December 28, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Tax credits can help with insurance cost

The issue has been ongoing in the southwestern Colorado region for years. I would like to share information on the…

December 28, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Winston, the British lion, is still roaring

I was one of the estimated 320,000 people who stood in line to file past the catafalque containing Churchill’s body…

December 28, 2018

Editorial Cartoons

Gary Markstein cartoon

du1-i-syn

December 27, 2018

David Brooks

Best of 2018 long-form journalism about ideas

I do it so that we can step out of the daily rush of events and read things that are…

December 27, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Where is all this water coming from?

There’s a 400-home subdivision planned for east of Bayfield. At Three Springs, they’re talking 2,300 homes, and in Twin Buttes,…

December 27, 2018

Editorials

We’re out of there

bad things must come to an end, such as Mideast military involvement

December 26, 2018

Letters to the Editor

You look just like an ostrich on climate

I realize head-in-the-sand denialism is one way to deal with the realization that we are all responsible. But to dream…

December 26, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Math shows that Council is reasonable

Actually, an increase of 159 percent in 16 years is about an annual increase of 3 percent; an annual increase…

December 25, 2018

Paul Krugman

America! Here is your case for practical socialism

I’m never sure what the interviewers have in mind; neither, I suspect, do they. I don’t think they’re talking about…

December 25, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Media is deceiving public on sandwiches

Going back to Merriam-Webster, bread is defined as “a usually baked and leavened food made of a mixture whose basic…

December 25, 2018

Editorials

Free money

the government paid you whether or not you worked, who would object?

December 25, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Let’s end domestic and sexual violence

Alternative Horizons responded to 539 individuals experiencing domestic violence. Over 341 women and children throughout the region sought out shelter…

December 25, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Pssst: Free advice, Mister President

Then pull troops out of Syria and use that unnecessary expenditure to help fund the wall. Free labor and available…

December 24, 2018