I live and travel on 550 daily. Many times, I witness garbage trucks traveling south on the highway, spewing trash all the way down the road. When we can, we…
This column is an absurd misrepresentation of reality. It is wrong on many levels. Olson cites the International Monetary Fund saying that: “$1.9 trillion is the amount of subsidies dolled…
Sweetie has an enviable ability to see the silver lining in any situation. During her first term, the city very ably and seamlessly instituted single-stream recycling, and now eight of…
It is illegal to sleep in the parks at night, forcing most homeless people to sleep during the day – resulting in any progress to better their situation being destroyed,…
Seriously, I realize that the goal is to keep the uninformed liberal voters in the dark about what is really happening in the world, but can’t we occasionally get some…
Penick is certainly human – and certainly a heartless member of that species. What was his motivation, if he did not mean to kill a dog? Would he have fired…
Bicyclists need to follow the same rules of the road as automobiles. Carol Simmons Durango
Colorado has successfully increased access to LARC since receiving a generous multi-year grant in 2008 from an anonymous donor. Teen birth rates in Colorado have since declined more rapidly than…
Like most Durangoans, we applauded the nighttime addition of the infamous T-rex head to the “rock banana” and mourned its removal. We still check out the banana every time we…
The Valles Caldera Preserve was not an example of privatization, nor was it designed with the help of or is it anything like any proposal made by the Cato Institute.…
I rented to a former GI gunner who had a wounded warrior mention on his license plate. He scared me more than once, even though I gave him no reason…
We love Durango and are involved with animals and young-adult involvement with the community – including 4H, which gives kids the best involvement with helping others here in Durango. I’m…
The state’s testing debacle has cheated the learning process in the school system, promoted “teach to the test” instead of learning to learn, denied teachers’ rights to teach to learn…
I know that what we do now still matters – especially to our children and grandchildren. The best science suggests if we get serious about reducing greenhouse gasses now, we…
Adjustments should have been made and finalized before construction. From this intersection, a driver would have to drive about a mile out of his way to get to La Posta…
In the meantime, I will continue my plans to retire to Oregon, where I know I can live – and die, by choices well made. Oh, and by the way…
As Reuters reported, “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she made a mistake when she claimed she had come under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996…
In 2006, my wife was diagnosed with the terminal disease pulmonary fibrosis, and for the next four years, she suffered. During August of 2011, my daughter Brooke and I were…
In that vein, she sponsored and helped pass a bill in the Colorado Senate that allows parents to exempt their children from being vaccinated. They can be exempted for any…
Obama’s rather glib and brief history of the Crusades hardly told the whole complicated story of events of 800 years distant, but his moral relativism is rather glaring. As Bobby…
This bill called The “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act” (seriously) will be introduced by Reps. Pompey and Butterfield. The bill if enacted will: Prevent states from adopting their own…
In speaking with a person in the planning office, we discovered that: a) only those within 300 feet of this business were made aware of the proposal, b) the entire…
Apparently, Koch is quite serious. This is one of the most outrageously ironic pieces I have ever read. Those “well-intentioned” lawmakers who created “incarceration nation” were instructed by Koch’s American…
My question is, was J. Paul channelling Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” or NBC’s Brian Williams? Gerry Schaerer Durango
As a biker, if a car doesn’t come to a complete stop and I see their wheels continue to roll, I have no choice but to continue to brake and…
Sadly, when adults think of teens, they may think of overly dramatic whiners who barely will lift a finger except to play a video game This stereotype could not be…
The article states that the primary reason for entertaining these taxes is due to “declining property-tax revenue caused by falling natural-gas and oil production and property values.” Regarding oil and…
Now, as I read more about the fight brewing across Western states over whether the state or federal government should control public lands, I keep thinking to myself, where’s the…
