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…
War II in the Pacific ended in burning controversy. Was it necessary?
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…
day, 72 years ago this summer, Miguel Trujillo asked for his rights
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…
Eusebio Leal faithfully served a communist dictatorship – and history
Columbus makes landfall in the New World. Painting by John Vanderlyn, 1847.du1-i-syn The place was Palos de la Frontera, a village with a good harbor in southwestern Spain, on 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…
Council should spend our money to fix mistakes that go back decades
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…
U.S. may have more pressing matters than its longest war, but not forever
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…
We appreciate your maturity and care for both the health of others and the viability of businesses by wearing masks. Particular thanks for those who demonstrate wearing masks correctly, over…
Please, beloved citizens of my native hometown, let our City Council know better than to hand off managing Durango to either of two out-of-state male contenders, one of them from…
I want to congratulate the citizens of Durango for behaving appropriately. Although I quietly disagreed with the first speaker, the evening was lovely and the hatred present elsewhere was absent…
Kentucky student notches another quiet win against American journalism
Cyrus Field, pioneer of the transatlantic cable; photographed by Mathew Brady, circa 1860.Courtesy “No schedule of telegraphic lines can now be relied for a month in succession, as hundreds of…
Joe Biden has been in politics a long time and what has he done? Enrich his son? He is a Democrat; Democrats have a history of making promises indicating that…
This shift in priorities was significant enough that the state Legislature felt a full-time professional staff was needed for the commission to focus on key areas such as wildlife, the…
Jeff Bleecker begins his letter on a humorous note, “We have a national outbreak of leftism sweeping our country.” Don’t I wish. Then it quickly turns ugly, claiming we “threaten…
