Preston Pitcher worked as a youth leader at his church for 10 years while molesting boys that attended the church. Judge Woods imposed four years of probation, but no jail…
Here’s a quote from Rep. Lauren Boebert’s latest newsletter: “As demonstrated by the blackouts across Texas, we cannot solely rely on renewable energy, and we cannot afford to ban natural…
My question to the people of the 3rd Congressional District is simply this: What the hell happened? You elected a dangerous, uneducated moron to represent you in Washington. She just…
Six photos were attached from a recent visit to southwest Colorado, including images of Boebert with constituents at the D&SNG Railroad Museum; a Durango diner; and Dove Creek High School.…
Wilderness, CORE acts will preserve Colorado for future generations
Many people claim the biology of sex difference points to an advantage of transgender athletes over cisgender women, often citing testosterone as a performance-enhancing drug. Let’s be clear: testosterone is…
More than 300 people attended the one-hour talk on Monday. The foundation also hosted a discussion with Brooks for its VIP members Wednesday. Brooks has been a regular commentator on…
With 20-plus years’ experience as a pioneering, sponsored extreme mountain athlete, I learned three main qualities: Stay quiet, listen to and respect the mountains. Nowadays? Thanks largely to Outside Magazine…
Rural electric co-ops around the country are providing FTTP, and their members love it. See the map at www.muninetworks.org. Americans have already paid for FTTP, but telecom carriers fraudulently diverted…
First of all, the “paraders” or “freedom protesters” have a right to drive down the streets with signs and flags as long as they obey the laws and are peaceful.…
Actions by the offices of the attorney general, secretary of state and the local Democratic Party to weaponize politics to financially and politically ruin Independent candidate Paul Jones are emblematic…
The bill would provide $4 million over two years to provide diapers for families in need. Odd though it may seem, once you look into the diaper deficit, the bill…
Yes, I’ll gladly shovel the snow. Far better than choking on forest fire smoke this coming summer. Despite the lack of sunshine, it’s clearly a new day in America. The…
One of us remembers a college political science lecture on the Civil War in which the professor claimed, “The Civil War was not about slavery. It was about economics.” He…
For practical purposes this EO will require any school that receives federal funding nearly every public high school and college to allow biological boys who self-identify as girls onto girls’…
But then Sen. Mitch McConnell has the audacity to – after voting “not guilty” – get up after the proceedings are over and declare that the case that the managers…
These are all places many of you have visited. There will be land protected right here in the San Juan Mountains. Support our senators in their efforts to champion the…
I think this is an appalling response to the threat to our democracy as well as to the lives of all the people who work in the Capitol. But when…
A female staffer replied sharply, “That is not what this was about, Ma’am! Never before in the history of Congress has …. ” I interjected, “There been so much violence…
James MorganDurangoEditor’s note: According to Wikipedia, the word “durango,” which is the name of a Mexican state, came from the indigenous Nahuatl language and means “masters of the hills” or…
I have been saying all along in this terrible time of children having to miss indoor school, all of the soothsayers moaning and groaning how our children are going to…
MidTown renewalInitiative poised to boost housing
I strongly disagree. There is excellent synergy between the Colorado Snowmobile Association, U.S. Forest Service, local clubs and Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Local snowmobile clubs work with the Forest Service…
Such expansion will draw even more homeless people to our neighborhoods, parks, and downtown Durango. Future services for the unhoused should not be near the center of town. In addition,…
Yet a woman’s right to make her own decisions about pregnancy is in peril, primarily from the U.S. Supreme Court. Reproductive rights advocates assume that with the conservative majority now…
For decades rural communities have solved their infrastructure dilemmas by creating utility cooperatives. In the 1930s, member-owned electric co-ops developed by farmers borrowed money from the federal government to construct…
Many of Aurelius’ writings, including this one, informed Christianity and made their way into the Christian orthodoxy. Nearly 2,000 years later, our founding fathers captured that sentiment with the motto…
Yet, all I receive from Democratic politicians are the same boilerplate fundraising pitches. Nothing to inform me. Nothing to engage my passions. Nothing to provide me with good talking points…
I want to make sure others in the future are able to experience that same feeling of awe that I felt then and I’m sure you can say the same.…
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