Opinion

The right move

The unanimous vote by the Dolores School District Re-4A Board of Education to approve a raise in teacher salaries for the 2018-19 school year was the right move, even if in financial terms t...

Class of 2018

In the past couple of weeks, area high schools have graduated a class of fine young people whose accomplishments and ambitions are evidence that a lot is going right in our hometowns and our...

Culture of secrecy

One of the challenges of environmental protection is that human activity produces pollution. Driving is a good example, from the extraction of mineral resources that eventually will become a...

Remember Me: Veteran Bob Harms commemorates the Memorial Day holiday in verse

Bob Harms of Durango is a part-time poet. Very part-time. Harms, now retired from a firefighting career and a grandfather of four, writes just one poem a year, during the holiday season. The...

Time for Tipton and Gardner to support local leaders, public lands

On Thursday, as a fitting start to the second annual Colorado Public Lands Day – celebrated Saturday – a bipartisan bill led by Sen. Michael Bennet naming two local mountain peaks after two ...

Chilcoat and Franklin: Don’t prosecute identity politics

Prosecute criminal acts, if necessary, but not identity politics

Energy leases: Let’s hold back some of our last best places

Let’s hold back some of our last, best places

Voting by district: For better government, avoiding further divisiveness, the legislature voted right

The Legislature voted right to build a better government for entire county

Public notices: SB 156 is another attack on the public’s right to know

SB 156: another attack on the public’s right to know government’s business

School week: Day off not a substitute for adequate pay

Day off not a substitute for adequate pay

Childhood poverty: Invest in kids to improve their well-being and grow healthy communities

The headline read: “Child poverty persists in Southwest Colorado despite low unemployment” ( That’s just one nutshell of information from the “2018 Kids Count in Colorado!” an annual public...

Conservation districts

Levy a small price for essential support
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