Our daughter joined the Peace Corps in 2007 and spent two years living in a small Albanian mountain community. We took the opportunity to visit her and can attest to…
On the Durangogov.org website, I see residents are encouraged to continue hiking, biking and running but to maintain the legally mandated safe distance. Why aren’t the lakes open for all…
Many believe that renewable energy is available only if the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. Wrong, both solar and wind energies can be stored in batteries. We…
New Mexicans support Colorado’s economy by purchasing second homes, supporting ski areas, restaurants, retail businesses, grocery stores and The Durango Herald. Mike could have advised his reader that although yes,…
Especially in grocery stores, where it seems that most of the employees are not wearing masks and they are the ones who come in constant contact with the public. Some…
Honestly, our family walked the river trail Saturday and a group of older women refused to social distance, walking three abreast. Our family was practically in the trees to give…
Most of the dangerous street debris ends up in the bicycle lanes, which forces me to cycle very close to the right side of the right lane of motorized traffic…
According to the district attorney, he is waiting for reports from the Colorado State Patrol. Somebody is not doing their job! I encourage each and every one of you to…
When the health of everyone is threatened by a pandemic, having clean air, water and public land is essential to our overall health and ability to fight off disease.This policy…
If only our supreme leader was around years ago, “it” would have predicted the recession and saved all of us hard-working Americans so much pain. As to what that evil…
All of us LPEA members have been incredibly lucky to have someone of Guinn’s intelligence and experience on the board these past three years. I have found Guinn to be…
In 2017, I ran with Guinn and Rachel for a very different LPEA board. Back then, there was no discussion about investigating alternatives to our electricity. Our Tri-State contract then…
I asked if management knew about it and got dead silence. Just kept looking at me, not moving in any way. It is time for La Plata County, If not…
Surely there are more important issues. We pay a fraction that European countries pay anyway. Aren’t we under stay-at-home orders? That should save money at the pump. Stop whining! Cary…
The banners of plastic bags across the nation were able to convince the ignorant and misinformed to vote to ban the use of plastic bags for shopping carry-out. Very convenient…
Not one mention of anything negative, like losing the entire length of Forest Service Road 660A to private ownership, which the public and hunters now enjoy. Like losing an entire…
Following the Parkland school shooting, President Trump met with surviving students and promised them he would do something to prevent future shootings. However, only a few days later, Trump met…
There are certainly more important issues to worry about right now. Please move this project to the back burner or even better yet, scuttle it altogether. Use this money instead…
I have worked as a family doctor for 30 years, 16 of them in Durango. This experience has led me to the conclusion that Medicare for All is our best…
Not a great place to be. Social distance becomes “who can be trusted,” which becomes how do you know, which rapidly becomes diversity/division. Such division of the populace follows the…
This false information affects the world’s ability to deal with the virus. At the same time, the liberal U.S. media is deliberately skewing all coronavirus information so that it constantly…
With several bankruptcies in the casino biz, of all things! A serial philanderer gravitating to porn stars; known for cheating contractors and investors. A chronic liar! Known for over-promising and…
The goal of stabilization and increase of small bands of our rare native species of Rocky Mountain Bighorns is ecologically significant. My research proves that the Weminuche bighorn herd is…
Quilters arrived at the back door of the shop, many with masks on, to pick up kits provided by a local company. By the end of the day, gowns were…
You slapped it on the article as if anyone – including Dr. Anthony Fauci – could give a date to “have fans in stadiums.” President Trump was rightfully criticized for…
I have seen shady politics over my many years. But for President Trump to withhold medical supplies from Washington and Michigan is ridiculous and dangerous. He is defiant and reckless…
Chicago has been hit hard and they are converting McCormick Place into a facility for emergency beds for 3,000 people. The only logical place in Durango would be the Rec…
I try to stay positive, yet every morning is filled with uncertainty with the next wave of information about an epidemic that comes crashing down harder and harder with each…
Your electric rate is going up due to LPEA’s internal expense growth. LPEA buys most power from Tri-State and its electric rate has not gone up for many years. LPEA…
The average percentage of coal used by American utilities dropped from about 50% to 27%, beginning around 2007, when natural gas use became widespread. So why did Tri-State’s coal-generated electricity…
