Editorials

Our view: A Colorado pandemic must-read

A new investigative report shows how Colorado’s pandemic response faltered

May 14, 2020

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Our view: The birth of flight in a letter

May 13, 1900, a mechanic wrote to an engineer – and men acquired wings

May 13, 2020

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Our view: Michael McClure – sail on, sailor

du1-i-syn McClure was 22 at the time, the youngest of the Beat poets and writers who would send a revivifying…

May 11, 2020

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Our view: City Council could make better use of our time

Durango City Council is going in circles arguing about its own conduct

May 8, 2020

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Our view: Let’s just give everyone an A-plus …

grading in a pandemic isn’t easy. San Francisco didn’t try.

May 7, 2020

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Our view: This is no time to relax our guard

Despite confusion and mixed messages, we’re ready to start back – slowly

May 6, 2020

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Our view: You can find the world in a puddle

du1-i-syn Start with the ducks, which we think are Green-winged Teals, and which arrive to claim or reclaim their preserves…

May 4, 2020

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Plague Journal: Looking into the future, we see ‘ask again later.’ That may be a good thing.

we try to see the future now, we get a message that says ‘ask again later’

May 1, 2020

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Our view: A puppy across the Florida Straits

tale of Elián González 20 years on remembered from a Cuban perspective

April 30, 2020

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Our view: Not the year for state lawmakers and initiatives

won’t miss a full legislative session – and all those crazy ballot questions

April 28, 2020

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Our view: Like peanut butter and chocolate, ‘Lay Down’ just works

du1-i-syn Gimme a little kiss, will ya huh? What are you gonna miss, will ya huh? It went well enough…

April 27, 2020

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Our view: LPEA endorsements

this year’s LPEA board elections, we recommend sticking with what works

April 24, 2020

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Our view: Move along, flatlanders

Keep-out orders in mountain towns may be rightful but they leave a bitter taste

April 23, 2020

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Our view: State shouldn’t stymie information requests now

is not time for state government to roadblock pandemic information

April 22, 2020

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Our view: What a year for Durango’s leader

Melissa Youssef leaves office after managing unprecedented events

April 21, 2020

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Our view: Allen Ginsberg and America talking to itself

du1-i-syn Ginsberg had a unique and uniquely American voice; no other nation, being inevitably smaller, could have inspired or ultimately…

April 20, 2020

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Our view: How free are we now?

pandemic could soon test the value of safety versus civil liberty

April 16, 2020

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Plague Journal: A Fifth Great Awakening?

we use this time of isolation to become more mindful? Yes, indeed

April 15, 2020

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Our view: School’s out … forever?

some places, it may not come back in as classrooms are reborn with distance

April 14, 2020

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Our view: The master retires for good

magazine artist Mort Drucker loved what he skewered

April 13, 2020

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Or view: Well goodbye, Bernie

ideologue goes down on aisle three

April 10, 2020

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Our view: Goodbye, bridge

we cannot say is that we hardly knew it – we knew it all too well

April 9, 2020

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Plague Journal: The suspicion of strangers

hard times, atomized natures are plainer and up go the barricades

April 8, 2020

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Our view: An unlikely friendship

Italy met its dark hour in this pandemic, Albania was there

April 7, 2020