Although the story and RSA do a great job at explaining the need for change (less money), they don’t address the nature of the agency’s chronic budget problems. The reality…
The debate is sadly divided along ideological lines with the opposition seemingly unable to hear the rebuttal to their arguments that this is physician-assisted suicide and a slippery slope toward…
The bill was in reaction to the case of James Holmes who was convicted of killing 12 people and wounding 70 in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. One holdout juror…
Last February, the Bureau of Land Management came out with a plan that dictates how we can use and access our BLM lands, like Phil’s World, for the next 15…
I am part of the Christian community in this area and am aware of so many good things going on at our local churches. It seems a shame not to…
Not that long ago in the news, a well-to-do family rented a vacation villa where extreme illness and death resulted from an irresponsible bug exterminator. I can only imagine the…
You should not leave your car idling because carbon monoxide reduces air quality and affects everyone’s health, causes global climate change, wastes fuel and costs money, contributes to noise pollution,…
Beyond the founding principle of gender equity in pay, to quote the website verbatim, “Pay differentials are permitted when they are based on seniority, merit, quantity or quality of production,…
Having attended Snowdown events over 20 years, I experienced Snowdown evolve from outdoor fun to bar games. Snowdown should focus more how to have fun without relying on drinking games.…
Board minutes clearly show extensive consideration of the effect of not increasing the base charge. Board minutes show LPEA staff is projecting a $3.9 million margin in 2016 with the…
Before the candidates are chosen, now is the time to find out what each candidate will do about key issues. Tracy Brothers Durango
Public comment through normal profiles (with all the regulatory checks and balances) exist at media outlets and papers throughout the United States without the added layer of a mandatory Facebook…
I have always been a fighter. Each individual needs to find their own threshold of where their quality of life is no longer viable. I have come to terms with…
So, pity those who live in places like Pagosa, which is an hour farther away but paying even lower prices? That’s right: As of Feb. 1, gas in Pagosa was…
From a distance, it’s easy for Lachelt to say that La Plata County was more affected by the Gold King Mine spill than San Juan County. From a distance, it’s…
But that is not likely to happen soon. So the best thing Durango and La Plata County can do is to improve airport facilities to “lure” more airlines into our…
“Excluding” means the opposite of “including.” The way I read it, one cannot take snow from a private property and deposit it in the public street. That makes sense. However,…
The authors were all well educated and prominent gentlemen who traveled everywhere, mostly by horse-drawn conveyance, and thus had a lot of time to think. So, I doubt any word…
Since moving to Hesperus in the spring of 2013, I have read about the increasing number of trucks the company Grupos Cementos de Chihuahua is running on the northern section…
But while reading through the publication I came upon a column by Dan Savage. The topics he covered were, to me, something which would not normally be printed in free…
