Opinion

Leader left indelible mark on students

I knew her through the Durango Adult Education Center, which she both helped found and then served as a teacher…

March 28, 2016

School District 9-R superintendent frustrated over testing

Opposition to standardized testing flies in the face of calls for accountability

March 28, 2016

Beebe will guide LPEA to bright future

Since then, some of my neighbors and I retrofitted active solar collectors onto our homes in the Animas Valley. Almost…

March 27, 2016

Launch campaign to save the portico

As citizens, we can also ask the council to let them keep the awning. If several hundred of us e-mailed…

March 27, 2016

Affordable Care Act

fails to contain costs, forcing tough financial decisions ahead

March 27, 2016

Delegate to hold industry accountable

I was raised skiing in the mountains and kayaking on the river. Last year, the Animas River was poisoned by…

N.M. should lead on methane rules

Recently, city, county and economic development officials asked the state’s congressional delegation to modify the proposed rules citing economic loss.…

Parking plan takes railroad for granted

Durango’s train is a genuine asset. By association its tracks can and do appeal to the curiosity of anybody who…

Improve access to state trust lands

Park County joins seven other Colorado counties that have formally opposed the seizure of BLM and National Forest lands. That…

Benghazi, emails bode poorly for Clinton

Many more American would have been killed if the special operators a mile away had not disobeyed repeated orders to…

Durango housing policy update deploys density to increase inventory diversity

of Durango aims to boost attainability with revamped focus

Keep politics out of the judicial system

Justice Scalia would be appalled by the threat of the Senate Republicans to shirk their duty, and refuse to conduct…

Drilling the HDs

commissioners are right to be concerned about the proposed lease

Francisco’s portico perfectly appropriate

A few years ago I hosted a language teacher from France and she was so excited to see all the…

Story a reminder that parks need funds

While the closure of Spruce Tree House is disappointing, it unfortunately also highlights a bigger problem. The infrastructure repair backlog…

City takes parking game too far

Now two weeks later, I have seen a parking meter person staking out Third Avenue and 12th Street, obviously targeted…

Construction defects

Durango considers ordinance to discourage lawsuits, protect builders

Sen. Gardner part of the ‘Party of No’

They have made the absurd argument that, in an election year, a twice-elected president should not be allowed a hearing…

Object to sustainable blight as well

By the same token, where are the Great Old Broads for Wilderness or the San Juan Citizens Alliance when it…

Legal challenges to Colorado pot law shrill and, so far, largely unsuccessful

This was one in a series of lawsuits filed by opponents of legalized pot. And while so far they have…

March 22, 2016

City doubling down to desecrate a river

The funny thing about this city Parks and Recreation-sanctified dumping ground is that it is in full view of everyone…

March 21, 2016

Lammons embodies duty, honor, country

I was privileged in the early ’60s to be at West Point when General Douglas MacArthur gave an impromptu speech…

March 21, 2016