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To the barricades

does French President Emmanuel Macron know that America doesn’t?

December 3, 2018

We need your aid with subject’s cancer

The article examined the allopathic and alternative methods used during this five-year journey. This update shares further information and a…

December 3, 2018

Frank Bruni

Black, female, Republican – and gone, gone, gone

It’s the story of her party, really. Of what it once realized about the future and how it slouched backward…

December 2, 2018

From the Chair

La Plata County needs your help to get this right

Our current code, which relies on an in-depth assessment of each project for feasibility and compatibility – a process that…

December 1, 2018

From the Mayor

Salute to city workers, local shopping

Lighting the christmas tree at Buckley Park and singing with Santa are sweet traditions in the Durango community. Noel Night,…

December 1, 2018

Guest Columns

This holiday, could a robot be taking your job?

While retailers across the country are beefing up seasonal hires to prepare for the holiday shopping apocalypse, Amazon is taking…

December 1, 2018

LPEA should be keeping rates low first

Ms. Ferrell attends nearly every board meeting and always has a commonsense take on what transpires. I am not able…

Robert Samuelson

Great Recession worse than Great Depression?

Surely the answer is “no.” In the 1930s, unemployment reached 25 percent. By contrast, the recent peak in the jobless…

David Brooks

Liberal parents, radical children – once again

The answer – whether the person leads a college, a nonprofit, a tech company, an entertainment company or a publication…

Good cop, bad cop

a Sheriff’s lieutenant lost his job due to a small theft, was it too much?

LPEA is striving to be transparent

I also appreciate that she attends most board meetings and is engaged in her cooperative. I feel I need to…

November 29, 2018

We look weak

is nothing great or American about tear-gassing asylum seekers

November 29, 2018

Smash ethanol before it smashes you

Pure-gas.org lists 13,800 North America gas stations that sell it; six are in Durango. Many are unaware of how ethanol…

November 28, 2018

Where is outrage about mass shootings?

As much as I am glad there are more elected officials agreeing with people wanting sensible gun laws enacted now…

November 28, 2018

Denver hearing showed danger we’re in

These standards were put in place to protect Americans from harmful methane pollution. I was there as a member of…

November 28, 2018

David Leonhardt

Who wants to play Monopoly? America, do you?

The colonists were not responding to a tax increase. They were responding to the Tea Act of 1773, which granted…

Appeal to Rep. Scott Tipton on climate

Days ago a second major climate report was issued, this one by 13 of our federal government agencies. Climate change…

Transition choice

Gov.-elect Jared Polis rattles teachers, union supporters with team selections

Bashing millionaires counterproductive

Maybe she doesn’t realize that one’s financial statement is not all disposable income. Who would take a train engine as…

David Brooks

The Establishment will save the working classes

We could spend them as we’ve spent the last two: Express daily contempt from within the safety of our political…

Guest Columns

City has ethics, do you?

Durango’s codes recognize whattoo often goes missing in the rest of the U.S.

How can inmates be treated this way?

How can it be legal for a nurse and her assistant to refuse your medication against doctorâ€™s orders? Michele Northcutt…

Guest Columns

The return of buffalo gives hope for community

As each calf struggles to stand and walk, the hearts of tribal members celebrate their own survival, their strength in…