Opinion

Editorial cartoons

Gary Markstein cartoondu1-i-syn

March 1, 2019

We can work together on climate change

In its report, “America’s Climate Choices,” the National Academy of Sciences states that climate change “is very likely caused primarily…

February 28, 2019

Letters to the Editor

A better way to plow Durango streets?

Durango’s snow removal plan (or lack of a plan) for the downtown area is to have snowplows running around plowing…

February 28, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Editorials don’t seem current, intelligent

It seems that the column should reflect a synthesis and opinion about current topics and issues, and reflected as intelligent…

February 28, 2019

Editorials

We the lobby

more Democrats embrace health care reform, the empire strikes back

February 28, 2019

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial cartoons

Judith Reynolds cartoondu1-i-syn

February 27, 2019

Letters to the Editor

For life lessons, check Funday Sunnies

If they are so smart, why not prove it by helping out in our community? Get a job, start a…

February 27, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Scouts, food drive show Durango cares

Saturday, Feb. 16, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of our community picked up 3,543 pounds of food for the…

February 27, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Make It Count boxes make me ashamed

It seemed so positive until that phrase about panhandlers, which left me queasy. I emailed the Business Improvement District, asking…

February 26, 2019

Editorials

There be monsters

the case of R&B artist R. Kelly, the alleged perp was hiding in plain sight

February 26, 2019

Op-Ed

We need a legal shift on carbon release

OCT has originated an extraordinary set of lawsuits now making their way through Federal court and the courts of nine…

February 25, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Just how long has this been going on?

I used to expect a predictable viewpoint, a liberal and politically Democratic slant to any topic examined. That’s fine, that’s…

February 25, 2019

Letters to the Editor

No one throws shade on sweet Durango

Your remarks regarding snowplow drivers in our happy, sweet little town are way out of line. Asking “Did some of…

February 25, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Hold your tongue, now, it’s a snowy town

Our city and county deal with snow removal as they can with the number of people they can employ and…

February 25, 2019

Editorials

Downy sweep

A morning walk in fresh snowfall can say more than the best poetry or prose

February 25, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Dennis Johnson was one of the greats

One summer, late 1960s, I worked the Diamond Circle Theatre. Dennis would do”Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Good-bye, or ”The Cremation of Sam McGee,…

February 25, 2019

Letters to the Editor

This isn’t warming, it’s global cooling

Don’t take my word for it, though. Google “geologic climate change” and you will find that it comes in regular…

February 24, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Licenses for undocumented immigrants

In 2013, our state Legislature passed legislation providing our state’s undocumented immigrants with the ability to obtain unique driver’s licenses…

February 24, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Socialism not the answer to anything

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing…

February 23, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Direct popular vote for president, yes!

Democrats are certainly not the enemy of the republic and it’s too bad Neds takes such a hateful approach to…

February 22, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Why is city doing this with our taxes?

This trail is poorly designed and expensive. It involves an awkward and dangerous railroad crossing at 36th Street that may…

February 22, 2019

Letters to the Editor

This city needs to discover real ethics

Another thing that concerns me about the city is that its Board of Ethics, the board that is supposed to…

February 22, 2019

Editorials

Hear Churchill roar

biography fleshes out the mercurial and irreplaceable Winston Churchill

February 22, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Today is finally Skip the Straw Day

National Skip the Straw Day falls on Friday, Feb. 22 this year. I am skipping the straw on Friday because…

February 22, 2019