Opinion

Contraception cash

Temporarily funding collective will keep birth-control program afloat – for now

Put homeless to work on river cleanup

Steve Perkins Durango

River science

deeming Animas safe or hazardous, data must be transparent

Think about effects of personal choices

First: Yeah, Durango! To think we are “awake” enough to cut water consumption 70 percent in honor of our sick…

River spill will pay big dividends

People all over the world have seen the picture of the yellow river winding its way through the heart of…

Encouraging letter inspires teacher

He wrote, “My experience has been that if students either become overly frustrated with the art of writing or get…

Climate museum

A place to catalog our knowledge and sow seeds for change

Thanks for coverage of Animas River spill

Making the articles accessible to everyone by lifting the paywall is another fine example of your community leadership. We are…

Sustainability plan awash in buzzwords

Dave Deane Durango

A way we can all use renewable energy

Local solar installers have been busy during the past several years encouraging the “greenies” among us to purchase their solar…

Perhaps spill will spur better protection

Without the river’s yellow coloration, would a contractor have attempted a fix on its own and possibly forgo reporting, figuring…

Look into the EPA’s political opposition

There are experts who can speak to this issue better than I can, so I won’t go into details, but…

Take care when around mama bears

Well, driving home from town later, Mama Bear and her two juvenile twins crossed the road in front of me…

McGrath’s judgment in question on spill

Preparedness should have been McGrath’s first priority before authorizing his EPA team to start work with an independent contractor on…

Sewer plant

City’s reluctance to move the facility could weigh on Durango for 50 years

The Blame Game

Silverton should invite U.S. rowing team

Michael G. Rosenberg Hesperus

City, county must enforce bear policy

So, why are there laws to support this, yet no one enforces them? Why do citizens and businesses of the…

Contaminated plume is EPA’s ugly baby

Where is the Hollywood outrage? Are those tree-hugging left-wing liberals asleep? Don’t they know there is a presidential election coming…

Women Rangers

graduates point the way to the future for the U.S. armed forces

EPA answers

Inquiries into our mine mishap must be swift and shared openly with the public

Install signs to explain industrial history

Hopefully, not much dissolution of the glassy material in that pretty slag pile, especially in a hard fall rain, has…

In hindsight, collaboration was a mistake

But, in retrospect, it has become clear that the collaborative effort was a mistake. It appears to me that the…

EPA, BP spills offer many comparisons

I currently reside in Texas and have been in the oil business all my career. The comparison between the BP…