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Letters: Is there no way to stop this horrible bridge?

It’s made up of multiple disparate parts, clunky concrete pylons and looks like it’s a cut-and-paste from the 1950s. For…

January 24, 2020

Our view: It’s time to give every Durango student a full midday meal

9-R keeps dragging its feet on ending lunch-shaming – but why?

January 24, 2020

Letters: Durango is a little town with a big heart

I work at Brennan’s Exxon. It is one of the finest local businesses here in Durango, owned and operated by…

Letters: Check out this homeless setup in Albuquerque

Their goal is a hand up, not a hand out; rehabilitation and not entitlement; by addressing physical, emotional and spiritual…

Letters: Let’s impeach every one of them

How myopic that those impeaching President Donald Trump and we voters don’t demand immediate term limits and impeachment for all…

Our view: Whose lousy idea was this bridge?

city’s renderings of a proposed 32nd Street crossing are bad news

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: Of course Sanders could be the next president

When it comes to pundits and politics this year, I’d revise the great physicist’s admonition as follows: “The first principle…

January 22, 2020

Letters: We can’t weather climate change inaction

It is a smart move on the city’s part to reconsider large investments in our little ski area given the…

January 22, 2020

Our view: Rewilding’s not as crazy as it sounds

and tigers and Jurassic Park – or just give some prairie to buffalo

January 21, 2020

Letters: Democrats will steal your health care

Be like Canada! Where you can wait months to see your primary care doctor, be given tests, scans and finally…

January 21, 2020

Our view: Don’t swallow Colorado health care propaganda

A mailer recently sent by Doctor Patient Unity in New Hampshire.Courtesy of The New York Times We know, it sounds…

January 20, 2020

Letters: Our time is up on climate

My professors have gravely informed my classmates and I that if business continues as usual, the world should prepare for…

January 20, 2020

David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt: F.D.R. got it. Most Democrats don’t. Warren does.

Scattered around the map were dozens of small drawings, each showing a project funded by Roosevelt’s stimulus program. They included…

January 19, 2020

From the State House

Barbara McLachlan: Good bills to come this legislative session

I co-sponsored the full-day kindergarten bill last year, and now about 92% of kindergarten-aged students are attending classes. As a…

January 18, 2020

Letters: restricting immigration is the answer

He and other public officials, including Gov. Jared Polis, rightly worry about population growth’s impact on the environment since Colorado’s…

January 18, 2020

Must Tipton challenger be so negative?

One thing that disturbs me is the negativity expressed in some candidates’ attack ads whether in a primary or general…

January 17, 2020

Our view: Keeping score on Trump’s impeachment trial

senators have sworn an oath to be impartial, for whatever it’s worth

January 17, 2020

Our view: Drivers, stop looking at your phones!

A second try for a Colorado bill to impose fines for distracted driving

January 16, 2020

Letters: Immigration could be driving homelessness

Environment, population and immigration are critically related in our world of 7.5-plus billion people. Because of public discussion such as…

January 16, 2020

Letters: New Year’s at casino was a flop

There was no countdown to New Year’s in the casino as in previous years. No champagne handed out. No party…

January 16, 2020

Letters: Electoral College is unethical and outdated

Procedurally, the college was designed to prevent a demagogue-like candidate from winning the presidency by inciting the passions of his…

January 15, 2020