In response to the article “Bureau of Land Management extends comment period on Chaco proposal” on April 2, I believe it is essential that the Biden administration move forward with…
Dick White presented another insightful article on the tragedies the COVID-19 pandemic has generated. I note that he states “at least 4 ways.” I’m guessing Dick is aware of another…
I visited a forgotten cemetery, high on a dusty hill, The bristly weeds grew rampant, and the air was strangely still. I climbed the scarce-trod path in search of stories…
December’s been extra cozy, Feelin’ as merry as can be, Want to thank God above, My heart sank into Love, Paycheck’s here Friday, Babe, Cashin’ it all to spend on…
Do I need this fragile shell? My body reigns my knowing, It gives me pain and sometimes fails, With grief and doubt revealing, I gaze in the mirror and see…
Like many people, I was supportive of the increase in our lodgers tax in 2021. And like many, I was dismayed to find that the city planned to spend the…
In 1972, lawyers requested former President Nixon’s tape recordings of his conversations in the White House. This was in relation to the break-in of the Democratic Party’s offices in the…
As a longtime early childhood educator in La Plata County, I celebrated when Colorado voters approved universal preschool with passage of Proposition EE in 2020. This valuable education will be…
Our Congress is in the process of deciding whether to end the twice a year time changes of Daylight Saving Time. However, they seem to be leaning toward permanent “daylight…
History is plagued with conflicts, such as the current situation in the Ukraine initiated by power-hungry, out-of-control despots. I’m hoping that we all do what we can to prevent the…
The Montezuma-Cortez School Board canceled a meeting where it planned to “re-create” a secret meeting they held previously to ask Superintendent Risha VanderWey to resign. No recording of that meeting…
Traditional Medicare is our nation’s most efficient and popular health care program. A failed effort to privatize it, the Direct Contracting (DC) program, devised by the Center for Medicare Service…
Readers, in celebration of National Poetry Month, we are inviting submissions of poetry to our Letters to the Editor section throughout April. Tell us how you feel about things on…
As Action Line No. 2 (and 4), I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to Action Line No. 5, John Peel. John has not only continued the tradition…
It’s puzzling. Why does fear of World War III seem the underlying motive for America’s Ukraine strategy? I mean, look at our government’s efforts to dissuade Vladimir Putin from escalating…
OK class, today’s word is hubris. Hubris, boys and girls, is moving someplace new from an entirely different region and state – Texas. And then, one year later, thinking that…
An endangered species in our midst. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. Who knew? Biologist Jennifer Zahratka, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife. There’s much news lately about habitat loss as…
All this rigmarole and needlessly long, intensive, verbiage could be avoided. The law should say what it means. “If you are a female of any age residing in Colorado, and…
It’s interesting how quickly downtown bump-outs went from a way to support downtown restaurants during COVID-19’s most restrictive time to now being reported as a permanent summertime feature for any…
I was aghast to read the letter on March 18 from the nurse who assisted a woman from Texas in obtaining an abortion. As a medical professional, the nurse had…
Does anyone take Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz seriously? One has to wonder, what motivates them? Are they being coerced into acting like total idiots, or does it just…
State governments that border Colorado to the north and south continually show they value public education by passing legislation as proof – Colorado’s government continually fails to do this. New…
Several times a week, I drive by a new car wash under construction and I think, “How was this allowed to happen?” There was a news report recently that our…
Your editorial on March 18 on voter intimidation should have been a news story with more facts, including locations where these acts happened. There’s a certain irony here in as…
I’ve had the privilege of coming to know many of the children and their families who live at Westside Mobile Home Park over the past few years, and I want…
I worked in reproductive health care as a registered nurse in abortion care for approximately six-plus years. I took care of Texas women during the COVID-19 pandemic who were seeking…
Durango School District 9-R released the plans to rebuild Miller Middle School. The bond language said they were going to rebuild Miller to address the educational needs of the students.…
Well, I want to thank all the journalists who brought to light the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas was at the Jan. 6 attack on the…
Seven Western states and their leaders – all depending on water from the Colorado River – remain divided. Roerinkcca Split into basins by an imaginary border at Lees Ferry, Arizona,…
City leaders are asking citizens to reimagine a new and improved downtown. Soon the council will give its nod to one of four conceptual designs all with the common denominator…
