Sure, there is supposed public comment, but I believe the decision is made given they allowed Blake to be vetted and be a candidate at the last minute. Why did…
Liberals say it is insignificant if you are Black, white, Hispanic or Indigenous. They say only a racist would claim the race of a person matters. We should all be…
I would gladly volunteer to hand out flyers and masks to noncomplying visitors. Where is the enforcement? Anybody else out there worried about visiting our own downtown area? I am…
Why is a Hispanic guy from Texas less qualified than anyone else? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard in my life, “Go back to Mexico.” I’m from…
Jose Madrigal is a finalist and has a very impressive city government background. He was the deputy city manager for McKinney, Texas, a city about nine times larger than Durango…
Then Brookie and Bettin lobbied for hiring Greg Caton to be city manager. Caton is a close friend of Ron LeBlanc, the past city manager. Caton has a poor track…
We’d also jump smilingly into the fact that we all were created equal and that getting rid of COVID-19 means we follow the rules we already know … period. I’m…
I suppose if one approves of trillions in tax breaks to corporate America, the rich, and the super-rich (did I leave anyone out?), at the expense of the rest of…
In front of every Colorado voter this fall will be an innovative way to expand the voting rights of every Coloradan and American. It is called Proposition 113, or the…
The city manager left after an ethics complaint was filed. The past finance manager was arrest for embezzling over $700,000. The 2020 city budget was full of errors amounting to…
Steve, a local legend, made me smile, again. Blake has risen from within city administration and has proven her skills in adapting to changing roles. I admire her for that.…
I ask, whose liberties? As we all exercise our constitutional rights, is that not patriotic? We march in peace but are met with terror. As we are called the f-word…
With rights and freedom come obligations for the common good. To be able to fight the virus, we all should have followed the scientific guidelines of wearing personal protection, social…
It’s what happened in Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro stacked the courts, then stole the election with his troops everywhere. And now his country has run out of everything including toilet…
As soon as the Ku Klux Klan, the Boogaloo Brothers and such realize they can dress for battle without any personal or unit identification, they will be out there saving…
Was anyone aware of our closest neighbor officials completely and openly ignoring guidelines? Want to guess how many Montezuma residents enter La Plata County on a daily basis? This is…
District 2 and District 3 have a race for those two seats. What most people are unaware of is that they can vote for both districts even if they don’t…
The July 23 editorial was a classic example (“Colorado Democrats throw a little … mud: QAnon-curious candidate Lauren Boebert gets slammed by national media”). It quotes stories from The Daily…
This of course would be the Democrats’ fear-mongering “existential threat.” All disciplines of science welcome questioning and discussions of theories. The scientists who develop new theories welcome debate because in…
Stating that only about 5% of people who get COVID-19 die and most of them are old or otherwise health impaired is stunning. Lacking in his personal analysis is the…
The Electoral College is there for a reason, and I very much believe in it. If the Electoral College is done away with, it will then be the beginning of…
The sheriff vowed to do his job, but there was little chance he could defeat the gang alone. Citizens wouldn’t help: “We’re just storekeepers. This is your job.” Somehow, the…
These episodes are straight out of the fascist playbook. If Trump is re-elected, he will claim that practices such as these have been approved by voters. He knows that the…
“And the people healed. And in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. “And when the danger passed and the…
The masks do not protect the wearer. They only reduce the risk that a virus particle from an asymptomatic person will escape and travel through the air on a droplet…
There was a time when lynchings of Americans with darker skin were celebrated. There was a time when Indigenous people were violently removed from their lands so that whites could…
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, there have been approximately 150,000 deaths since March 1, so simple math determines a daily average of more than 1,000 deaths…
What if Durango School District 9-R put Buckley Park into conservancy? It could then do a GoFundMe or other type of money drive and ask locals to fund the “People’s…
I recommend taking a vote from the Native American people who are purportedly offended by his presence. There are more than 100,000 members of the numerous tribal reservations in the…
Whose customer dollar is more important to them? The folks following the mask requirement or the folks who refuse to comply and expose employees and the rest of their customers…
