Editorials

Our View: Share what’s appropriate in hiring public health director

On Monday, the Board of Health, which oversees the new La Plata County Public Health, exited an hourlong executive session…

May 5, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Southwest residents too vulnerable in Anthem, CommonSpirit impasse

A news story on Wednesday in The Durango Herald captured the plight of a Durango family, the Hunters, snagged between…

May 3, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Unsure whether student demonstrations will be historical markers in Gaza War

There’s an old joke that makes room for college students to try on and explore who they are. Oftentimes, that…

May 1, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Clarification first on 1984 Act in annexation talks

Tribe, city reference same legislation

April 26, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Secretary Griswold can show more restraint

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has not held back comments about Donald Trump, calling him an insurrectionist in tweets,…

April 24, 2024

Opinion

My View: Notes from Rocky’s newsroom during Columbine

SwanJerry McBride I worked at the former Rocky Mountain News in Denver when on April 20, 1999, at 11:23 a.m.,…

April 21, 2024

Opinion

Our View: What will it take to fund La Plata’s roads and bridges?

If cultural references give perspective to when La Plata County’s 8.5 mill levy was approved in 1991, the movies “The…

April 19, 2024

Opinion

Our View: 420 events mark evolution of marijuana movement

Before Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, 2014, cannabis enthusiasts’ annual, iconic holiday on April 20, to ritualistically…

April 17, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Kim Martin’s columns touch those affected by Alzheimer’s

Some of the most frequent comments we receive have to do with relating to local Kim Martin’s guest columns about…

April 14, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Sun reporter booted from state GOP assembly for doing the right thing

The Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish, who was kicked out of the state GOP assembly in Pueblo on Saturday, excels…

April 12, 2024

Opinion

Boomer strikes back: ‘OK, Zoomers. I get it.’

Cross “OK, Boomer” is the sarcastic retort to those of us born in the Baby Boomer era. It is a…

April 12, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Thank you, Tom Stritikus

his team, Fort Lewis College president made enduring gains

April 10, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Food aid workers best of us humans

providing security for them is a war crime

April 5, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Smaller art projects as worthy as larger ones

The surprise of public art – whether murals on drab cinderblock walls or recycled metal twisted into something intriguing –…

April 3, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Share what’s on your mind in poems

According to the Poetry Foundation, young people are naturally receptive to poetry and are its most appreciative audience. We don’t know how this…

March 31, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Demand release of WSJ reporter wrongly imprisoned 1 year

soft on Putin counters cause to free Gershkovich

March 29, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Time for Native healing practices at VA

Southern Ute member Richards to bring overdue perspective

March 27, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Durango’s shady, green East 3rd Ave. median to become a rarity

restricts nonnative planting, watering of ‘nonfunctional turf’

March 24, 2024

Opinion

My View: Boebert still on the clock in CD3

more legislation that benefits Southwest constituents

March 22, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Disinformation dogs Dolores River monument proposal

Grievance politics tend to attract people who feel left out. By Tuesday afternoon, that could be more than 5,000 people,…

March 20, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Musings on state of the presidential race

SwanJerry McBride With Donald Trump secured as the Republican nominee, and Joe Biden perky and energized after his State of…

March 13, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Amplify case for Gaza cease-fire beyond Council chambers

Understandably, people in our communities are enraged about the Israel-Hamas war – barbaric and heart-wrenching. We wholeheartedly support endeavors to…

March 10, 2024

Opinion

Our View: SCOTUS went too far with federal legislation in Trump ballot ruling

Longtime Republican politician Norma Anderson, lead plaintiff in the case to remove Donald Trump from the Colorado primary ballot based…

March 8, 2024

Opinion

Our View: Native Lens a catalyst for young Indigenous filmmakers

There are moments when we know we’re witnessing something that changes what comes afterward. That was the feeling, sitting in…

March 6, 2024