Opinion

Colorado renters need home cooling laws

Trish Zorniodu1-i-syn As I write, my skin is sweating. My body is hot to the touch. I’m tired and dehydrated…

‘Cannot cut our way to better care on backs of hospitals’

Rep. Barbara McLachlan Coloradans are proudly among the healthiest and most active people in the nation. But that’s not to…

‘Share concerns about democracy surviving’

Project 2025, the GOP plan to install dictatorship during the next potential Donald Trump administration, is plenty of reason to…

Call the ‘word police’: Lost art of using correct language

cca Time was when there were English word/language gurus. No they didn’t reside at universities, where professors focused their attention…

‘Crucial that left look at future, respond in relevant’ manner

cca Immigration is indeed a problem; all Americans agree on that. The right is largely opposed to any immigration, and…

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Our view: Legislative wrap-up

Lawmakers take action on cellphone use, education funding and Indian boarding schools

We won’t forget what happened 101 years ago

Shaun Ketchum Jr. One hundred and one years ago, my Ute ancestors were forced to live within a barbed-wire camp…

A return to the fireworks that are loved

Kudos to Durango’s city leadership for listening to the many Durangoans who soon after last year’s 4th of July evening…

Wildlife quid-pro-quo: ‘Something to still think about’

cca The wildlife quid-pro-quo. It was a proposition advocated more than a half century ago by Willard D. Klimstra, then…

Polis has kind words, but is that enough for Tri-State?

Allen Bestdu1-i-syn Colorado Gov. Jared Polis gets summoned almost daily to deliver remarks. On a recent Friday, for example, he…

Property taxes

debate about merits, demerits of Senate Bill 233

Hunting is a valuable tool in managing lions

Andrew Carpenter (Courtesy of Writers on the Range) Asking the public to decide if it’s a good idea to ban…

Kudos to M-CHS Choir

Kudos to the Montezuma-Cortez High School Choir. My family and I were fortunate enough to be in the auditorium for…

Bodo Industrial Park helped grow city, county

Foundation responsible for development has come to an end

‘Coexist with wildlife? People have gotten far far from nature’

cca Wildlife populations have always changed and adapted. Sometimes populations grew until they surpassed the carrying capacity of the land.…

Colorado houses are too big. We need more starter homes

Trish Zorniodu1-i-syn How big is too big for a house? This is a question I’ve asked myself often, especially as…

‘Safety clause does not allow referendum’

What is this “safety clause” used at the end of our Colorado legislation? The safety clause is attached to the…

‘More than new immigrants who are better off’

The local Republican Party leader said that only illegal aliens were better off now than when Joe Biden took office.…

RV park ‘issue looming – conditional water rights’

cca A park for 277 luxury RVs and small cabins has been proposed near the intersection of Trimble Road and…

‘Remaining silent puts blood on our hands’

First the City Council abolished boards and commissions comprised of community members. Now, the Council wants to take away the…

‘Benefit in bears acting like bears, not raiding ranches’

Ben Longcca Is there any habit harder to break than harboring a grudge against an old adversary? Yet burying hatchets…

‘Reject proposal’ for luxury RV camp

The Roberts Resorts Village Camp is totally inappropriate for the Animas Valley. This proposal would have extremely high impacts on…

Lawmakers should put home equity theft to the curb

Michael Fields, who helms Colorado Rising Action, a conservative fiscal policy group, championed the passage of Proposition 117, which requires…