Opinion

Like Obamacare, slavery was law of the land

Paul Wainwright Hesperus

October 30, 2013

City Council has bigger fish to fry

Are our city councilors solving real problems or pursuing their personal agendas (without factual data) while bigger problems loom before…

Bag tax risks encouraging a tax on sarcasm

In fact (in keeping with standards set by politicians and pundits, the writer is not responsible for the factuality of…

NSA surveillance

splitting hairs, the agency fails to address fallout from its activities

Bags are evolutionary gift to other species

The proof lies in multiple Google image search results. One picture I found showed a bottle nose dolphin with a…

Turn plastic grocery bags into valuable oil

Plastic, instead of becoming a wasteful polluting eyesore, becomes a treasure, literally an oil well! Carbon footprints involved in transporting…

Steve Brittain will be an asset to 9-R board

Gene Jones Durango

Kim Martinâ€™s experience makes her valuable

Susan Palko-Schraa Aztec

Purchase plastic bags, decrease city’s litter

After giving it serious thought, I decided I could buy bags from the market. This makes sense. I would spend…

Fee will prompt bag purchases for 2nd uses

Chris Christensen Durango

Business as usual not a sustainable option

Maybe many of the thoughtful authors of the letters to the editor against the ban do already voluntarily refrain from…

Bag habits are not only sign of stewardship

Cate Fenster Durango

Reusable bag users making a difference

They want you to think cheap. They want you to be lazy as that helps their almighty bottom line. So…

‘No’ to bag fee

Repealing bag ordinance would send a healthy message to city government

Bag ordinance a small but meaningful step

It’s unsurprising that many of the same radicals who managed to destroy the county comprehensive plan are involved in this…

‘Yes’ to 4A

Pine River Fire Protection District tax proposal should be approved by voters

‘Yes’ to Pine River Cemetery

Assessed valuation in the cemetery district declined from more than $440 million for the 2010 budget to less than $231…

Kim Martin will be effective board member

I feel she would make a very stable school-board member. I feel sheâ€™s the best candidate and will look out…

Invest small amount in Pine River Cemetery

I want to urge everyone in the Pine River Cemetery District to vote “yes” on the last item on the…

Get informed and support bag ordinance

During the last two years, the ordinance has evolved and come to the public in bits and spurts. It has…

Three simple reasons to support bag fee

These three points are enough for me to rethink the logic around the use of plastics in our world. In…

Amnd. 66 will connect more kids to light

Amendment 66 can help these students grow and thrive. This amendment funnels new tax dollars into early-childhood education, at-risk students,…

Facts support a ‘yes’ vote on issues 2A, 4B

As you go to vote, I urge you to get the facts: Property owners in Animas and Hermosa Cliff will…