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Could hallucinogenics help cure our mental health woes?

Can hallucinogenics like LSD, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms help treat mental health issues such as addiction, anxiety, depression and PTSD? A growing number of Durango-area residents believe the...

DATE: Feb 09, 2022 CATEGORY: Local News

Our View: Yale Kamisar

Yale Kamisar died Jan. 30 at the age of 92. He was perhaps the most influential individual whose name most Americans have never heard. But as the “father” of the Miranda Rule, he and his work deserve ...

DATE: Feb 09, 2022 CATEGORY: Editorials

Can future Winter Olympics weather a warming climate?

As world temperatures warm, the need to create artificial snow at the Winter Olympic Games increases, burdening water and energy supplies. This practice, like much of modern life, increases greenhouse...

DATE: Feb 09, 2022 CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

School board did not give superintendent a chance to succeed

In evaluating superintendent Risha VanderWey, the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 Board of Education acted like a kangaroo court, ignoring due process and coming to a predetermined conclusion. ...

DATE: Feb 09, 2022 CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Thank nurses, doctor for their work

I do not presume to know the angst, anger, sadness that our school nurses, public health department nurses and staff, hospital nurses, doctors, and staff must be feeling. It is my bedrock belief that...

DATE: Feb 09, 2022 CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial Cartoon

DATE: Feb 09, 2022 CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Bayfield School District fires superintendent

Superintendent Kevin Aten, who has led the Bayfield School District for almost four years, had his contract terminated on Tuesday at a district board meeting. Leon Hanhardt, assistant superintendent a...

DATE: Feb 08, 2022 CATEGORY: Local News

Fort Lewis College students research vitamin D as a treatment for long COVID-19

A team of Fort Lewis College students and their professor plan to get in on the ground floor of the emerging field of long COVID-19 research. Five students and biology professor Shere Byrd will conduc...

DATE: Feb 08, 2022 CATEGORY: Local News

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters arrested for allegedly recording court hearing

Mesa County’s Republican clerk and recorder, Tina Peters, who is currently being investigated by a grand jury for election tampering and misconduct, was arrested on unrelated charges Tuesday in Grand ...

DATE: Feb 08, 2022 CATEGORY: Regional News

All Colorado children could get free school meals under proposed law

A group of Democratic state lawmakers and a coalition of advocacy groups want to permanently provide free breakfast and lunch in schools for all K-12 students, regardless of income levels. “By providi...