As much as I am glad there are more elected officials agreeing with people wanting sensible gun laws enacted now and not later, it’ll take no more lucrative payoffs to…
These standards were put in place to protect Americans from harmful methane pollution. I was there as a member of the environmental advocacy group Defend Our Future, and, like so…
Days ago a second major climate report was issued, this one by 13 of our federal government agencies. Climate change is happening now; we’re paying for it now, suffering now.…
Gov.-elect Jared Polis rattles teachers, union supporters with team selections
Maybe she doesn’t realize that one’s financial statement is not all disposable income. Who would take a train engine as payment for a car, and if that were possible, what…
How can it be legal for a nurse and her assistant to refuse your medication against doctor’s orders? Michele Northcutt Durango
As an employee assistance counselor for the past 20 years, I’ve had the privilege to work with the employees of the city of Durango, La Plata County, Fort Lewis College,…
Oh, excuse me, I meant City Council. You can see how I could get confused. Taylor Libby Durango
As we attempt to solve the mystery, I think it is important to be comprehensive and discuss the effects of trophy hunting. For millennia, elk have co-evolved along with predators…
At the September board meeting, Britt Bassett, Jack Turner and others decided it was proper to delete from the minutes nearly two hours of dialogue that took place at the…
My one complaint: People, please leave your smart phones in your pocket. There were people next to us, in front of us, and all around, checking their Facebook page, looking…
A report from the U.S. Forest Service in 2013 stated specifically that “A century ago, a ponderosa pine forest may have had 25 mature trees per acre. Today the same…
We owe this holiday in part to an early feminist who strove against all odds
I have stopped reading this column. For the reasons stated by Ms. Chilcoat, it frustrates me. To add to what Chilcoat wrote, for example, the title of the editorial today…
We are a non-profit offering a 24-7 play space to local parents of young children. Our main mission is to build community and support. Parents of young children connect during…
The news reporters are treating Trump with kid gloves and giving him every chance to make himself sound sane, but he just insults them. He gets everything he deserves from…
You can brag about pardoning a turkey – like Trump (or not). You will stay awake for your entire favorite football game. Your sensible vegetarian kid won’t have to boycott…
Mr. Sigman, how exactly should we be able to do this purging of humans who are doing their constitutionally protected jobs? Do we take them out and shoot them or…
Four nationally renowned leaders presented their perspectives and research about the enormous challenge of our warming climate, one of the most pressing issues of our time. Highlights included thought-provoking solutions…
I fail to understand why the suggestion was limited to just Democrats in the House. Shouldn’t the book be given to all members of Congress, rather than focus on just…
So I was pleasantly surprised, in fact blown away, when I stopped by CJ’s Diner for brunch last Monday to learn that for all veterans and active-duty military, all meals…
Yet by my feeble direct experience through my pioneering and wildly embraced Durango city employee yoga classes, I know by weekly sacred sweat that my native hometown leaders/servers (who choose…
We used to have very well-reasoned, educational and thought-provoking editorials, but now find ourselves assaulted with poorly written, short-sighted screeds contributing to the polarization and division Americans experience every day.…
It is where you are forced to pay the sheriff’s department $50 a month and up to $20 twice a week for urine analysis. It should rightly be called pre-trial…
The kind of bias already displayed by Matthew Whitaker would have disqualified him to serve as an ordinary juror, much less as Trump’s new acting attorney general. Trump’s brazen disregard…
