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Our View: Mushrooms to treat mental health: Pass Initiative 58

In the treatment of mental health, psilocybin is too promising to ignore. For this reason, along with legalization’s removal of…

Editorial cartoon: Garage sale

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Editorial cartoon: Militarizing the North Pole

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Wes Rowell: On election coverage

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Editorial cartoon: Will take that bet

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3 approaches to community values

Three recent articles in The Journal shared three approaches to community issues. Pleasant View neighbors don’t want to see solar…

Our View: Each transaction says yes or no to inflation

Inflation is front and center in the midterm elections. But don’t fall under the sway of candidates who claim the…

Editorial cartoon: Student debt

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Our View: D&SNGR: To wave or not to wave

Lately, letters about the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s train whistle have taken up real estate in our Opinion…

Wes Rowell: Dr. Fauci says goodbye

Our View: 4-day school weeks poised to be Southwest standard

Historians are at odds over why school calendars begin in the fall and summer is the season for breaks. Some…

Editorial cartoon: Report card

‘Leo’s character pillar of his life’s work’

cca What is broadly known about Leo Lloyd’s tragically condensed life are his heroic and legendary international level mountaineering search,…

Homeownership: ‘We feel like our dreams are slipping away’

The Other Sidecca Roberta Villalobos and her husband, whose real names I’m concealing for questions of privacy, began looking for…

Editorial cartoon: Trump’s mementos

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Bill Roberts: Lack of home does not justify parks, alleys as toilets

It speaks well of Durango and La Plata County that people here recognize both the rights and the humanity of…

Editorial cartoon: A peek at Giuliani’s future

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Editorial cartoon: Nuclear secrets

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Our View: Lower Dolores River group rare, special

It’s been a long time coming, these extraordinary bipartisan Senate and House bills that propose additional protections for the Lower…

Party sans moral core ‘self-destructs’

Calling all conservatives. The real ones. Not the phonies. Ones whose cornerstone values are the Constitution, the rule of law…

Bill Roberts: Dolphin program brings new perception

For more than 60 years, the U.S. Navy has used dolphins to detect underwater mines. It is a successful and…

Our View: Cortez Schools

Whatever the perceived problem, whitewashing history is not the answer

It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies

It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote,…

Our View: A Texas bridge

the U.S. should pay more attention to this hemisphere