Opinion

Her Hands

My hands look like her hands. My knuckles remind me of a mountain ridge in the La Platas. I see more brown spots and veins that look like the running river called Animas. My hands look like ...

‘True conservationists, conservative ranchers’

Regarding the article "Politics of Wolves" in The Durango Herald on April 15 and online in The Journal, the true conservationists are the conservative ranchers that voted against and worked ...

Shining Down, Shining Bright

Snow falling on the black night shimmers of silver and white on a gray velvet background hiding distant stars from my eyes but, Oh! I know that they are there shining down shining bright pee...

Mountain Muses

It is the dawn breaking over their peaks That shimmers the morning’s glory in glowing valleys. Mountains, as poets, often speak in cloud stanzas, Seducing my emotions and binding me to the W...

Does GOP like ‘scary systemic nouns’

Perhaps it is the prolonged stress of the many problems our nation is enduring right now, but The Journal’s account of the Mesa County Republican assembly made my usually uneventful day. As ...

Chaco Canyon

It’s breezy in Nageezi, down a lonely, dusty road. Ancient Great Houses anchored to the earth, resting under blankets of sand and sage. They count the millennia as the earth breathes up a du...

Rocky Mountain Hike

Resting On a granite slab left by a retreating glacier At the shallow edge of an alpine lake. Scents of spruce and fir mingle With the harsh complaint of a Steller’s jay. Heartbeat slowing, ...

Reuse rallying cry: ‘Lock him up’

Back in the 2016 campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, a big deal was made of Clinton’s missing emails. The right’s rallying cry was "lock her up." Fast forward to 2022. Donald ...

Lost school board meeting too familiar

In 1972, lawyers requested former President Nixon’s tape recordings of his conversations in the White House. This was in relation to the break-in of the Democratic Party’s offices in the Wat...

School board ‘has gone rogue’

The Montezuma-Cortez School Board canceled a meeting where it planned to "re-create" a secret meeting they held previously to ask Superintendent Risha VanderWey to resign. No recording of th...

School district has ‘time machine’

It appears that Montezuma-Cortez School District now has possession of a time machine. Is this time machine available to others? Jim Herrick Cortez ...

Avoiding World War III not a strategy

It’s puzzling. Why does fear of World War III seem the underlying motive for America’s Ukraine strategy? I mean, look at our government’s efforts to dissuade Vladimir Putin from escalating h...
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