Our View: 4-day school weeks poised to be Southwest standard

Historians are at odds over why school calendars begin in the fall and summer is the season for breaks. Some…

Editorial cartoon: Report card

‘Leo’s character pillar of his life’s work’

cca What is broadly known about Leo Lloyd’s tragically condensed life are his heroic and legendary international level mountaineering search,…

Homeownership: ‘We feel like our dreams are slipping away’

The Other Sidecca Roberta Villalobos and her husband, whose real names I’m concealing for questions of privacy, began looking for…

Editorial cartoon: Trump’s mementos

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Bill Roberts: Lack of home does not justify parks, alleys as toilets

It speaks well of Durango and La Plata County that people here recognize both the rights and the humanity of…

Editorial cartoon: A peek at Giuliani’s future

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Editorial cartoon: Nuclear secrets

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Our View: Lower Dolores River group rare, special

It’s been a long time coming, these extraordinary bipartisan Senate and House bills that propose additional protections for the Lower…

Party sans moral core ‘self-destructs’

Calling all conservatives. The real ones. Not the phonies. Ones whose cornerstone values are the Constitution, the rule of law…

Bill Roberts: Dolphin program brings new perception

For more than 60 years, the U.S. Navy has used dolphins to detect underwater mines. It is a successful and…

Our View: Cortez Schools

Whatever the perceived problem, whitewashing history is not the answer

It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies

It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote,…

Our View: A Texas bridge

the U.S. should pay more attention to this hemisphere

The West is entering a new age of fire

Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere…

Cortez Pickleball Tournament a success

I’d like to thank the Cortez Pickleball Group and Friends of Recreation for hosting the second annual Cortez Pickleball Tournament…

Congressional District changes are ill-advised

The proposed boundary changes for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District is not in the best interest of our agricultural communities that…

Our View: Redistricting

Proposed 3rd Congressional District could benefit Western Slope

Get involved to ensure best 21st-century education for our children

Sherri Maxwell After reading the recent article in The Journal regarding last week’s Montezuma-Cortez school board meeting, I feel compelled…

New Mexico joins Colorado in reducing methane pollution

New Mexico, the third-ranking U.S. oil producer, has taken action to curtail methane pollution from the oil and gas industry,…

Robocall rebellion

Gail Collins(CREDIT: Earl Wilson/The New York Times)du1-i-syn Let’s find something fun to talk about. Really, we need a little break.…

Our View: Bipartisanship

Sen. Don Coram stubbornly models how to avoid polarization, work with others

Our View: Orphan wells

advances pollution solutions

As Lake Powell dwindles, wonders open up for visitors

On May 9, protected by neoprene, I bobbed around in a flooded canyon in Utah’s Lake Powell. The reservoir had…