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Replace train’s ‘airhorn with steam whistle’

I’ve lived here all of my adult life and one thing I find that doesn’t belong in Durango or the north Animas Valley and Hermosa is a diesel airhorn. So I have a solution. Why not just replace the airh...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

‘What Trump intends to do with democracy’

You’ve probably heard the Aaron Tippin song, “You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.” Well, that sums up our current choices for president of the United States. You either stan...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

Inflation, high prices? ‘Corporate greed’

Why does Durango and La Plata County have the highest gas prices in the state? I filled up in Farmington a week ago for $3.09 per gallon. We just traveled the state and paid $2.98 in Denver, then paid...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Truest form of patriotism, a love that isn’t complacent’

Patriotism did not bring my grandfather to the Army recruiter’s office in 1956. Poverty did. A youth spent picking cotton and working odd jobs to help feed his family meant that he was a good way from...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

SCOTUS reveals ‘how partisan justices are’

We should all be livid now that the Supreme Court has shown how partisan its justices really are. They got their seats because elections matter. Republicans have cheated and manipulated their way to t...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

Bird upside down ‘a nonevent’

The article on the bird hanging upside down in the alley of downtown Durango seems typical of the journalism present in most media coverage of a nonevent. Interesting but certainly not factual. That r...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Supreme Court ‘officially’ crowned King Biden’

So it seems that the Supreme Court just “officially” crowned King Joseph Biden. Why doesn’t he have an “official” conversation with his military as commander-in-chief and “officially” direct it to tak...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Baby-boomer cohorts lazy about issues we cared so passionately about’

I will forever be grateful to our former public defender, a man I greatly admire, a man who helped change my life for the better. Back in the late 1980s, I taught a class at Durango High School called...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

Robert Kennedy Jr. ‘highly intelligent, well-spoken’

The Democratic National Committee is part of our government corruption problem. It is itself a threat to democracy. If the DNC valued the democratic process, it would have allowed us to choose a presi...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Rooted in long-standing traditions of hunting, fishing, exploring wild places’

As a proud member of the Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and a proponent of the Sportsmen for the Dolores coalition, I am writing to voice my strong support for the designation of th...
DATE: Jul 07, 2024 CATEGORY: Opinion

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