This got me thinking. Why are people who are against the ballot initiative to maintain our streets telling everyone the city has plenty of money and officials just need to…
John Hickenlooper makes it official
Although their work has been exemplary, folks still need to use their brains when driving by slowing down (arriving at Purgatory five minutes later won’t ruin your day), leaving adequate…
I met Kim before she even moved to Durango, when she was on a road trip checking out the area. Her focus is on multi-generational growth – how do we…
While he may not have been as attentive to local business as he might have been while in town (and it isn’t clear that is true), he was doing what…
Last Wednesday, the U.S. House also got a new dream bill on Medicare for all
But when I got outside, I saw the giant snow plow and the trucks that haul the snow off. I watched for a while. It was a tightly choreographed experience,…
Next, La Plata Electric Association could and should exit from their long-term contract. And finally, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative and their deal with Guzman Energy provides a blueprint as to…
We had huge concerns of someone having a deadly crash when entering that highway from homes along that route. CDOT seems to get its share of complaints. This is a…
E.B. White has much to teach us still about dachshunds and convictions
Increasingly, argumentation is being advanced by questioning the integrity and honesty of our elected officials, volunteer boards and advisory commissions – your neighbors and fellow citizens, doing their best for…
I will be the first to say I wince at the sound of someone saying, “Raising taxes is a good thing.” As a business owner for 15 years in Durango,…
In its report, “America’s Climate Choices,” the National Academy of Sciences states that climate change “is very likely caused primarily by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities,” and…
Durango’s snow removal plan (or lack of a plan) for the downtown area is to have snowplows running around plowing snow around parallel-parked cars. This process is slow, tedious and…
It seems that the column should reflect a synthesis and opinion about current topics and issues, and reflected as intelligent thought. Corey Sue Hutchinson Durango
If they are so smart, why not prove it by helping out in our community? Get a job, start a business, shop local, help a neighbor or volunteer. You can…
Saturday, Feb. 16, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of our community picked up 3,543 pounds of food for the Durango Food Bank. Not only is this an important project…
It seemed so positive until that phrase about panhandlers, which left me queasy. I emailed the Business Improvement District, asking if it could strike the phrase about panhandlers to keep…
In the case of R&B artist R. Kelly, the alleged perp was hiding in plain sight
OCT has originated an extraordinary set of lawsuits now making their way through Federal court and the courts of nine states, including Colorado. On Jan. 14, in the case of…
I used to expect a predictable viewpoint, a liberal and politically Democratic slant to any topic examined. That’s fine, that’s your opinion, but it was not worth reading the editorials…
Your remarks regarding snowplow drivers in our happy, sweet little town are way out of line. Asking “Did some of the plow people have the night off so they could…
Our city and county deal with snow removal as they can with the number of people they can employ and with the monetary resources they receive. This is not a…
One summer, late 1960s, I worked the Diamond Circle Theatre. Dennis would do”Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Good-bye, or ”The Cremation of Sam McGee, every night as his acts in the Old Time Oleo…
Don’t take my word for it, though. Google “geologic climate change” and you will find that it comes in regular cycles over millions of years. This entire discussion became a…
In 2013, our state Legislature passed legislation providing our state’s undocumented immigrants with the ability to obtain unique driver’s licenses from six DMV locations. However, this program has not been…
