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Stakeholders object to Next Step design, want smaller upgrades

Small businesses are the backbone of Durango’s economy. Surviving the Gold King Spill, the 416 Fire, the 2020 pandemic, and now the 2022 labor and supply chain shortages. Businesses are aski...

DATE: Aug 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

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

What is broadly known about Leo Lloyd’s tragically condensed life are his heroic and legendary international level mountaineering search, and rescue skills and saves. What I hope to add – i...

DATE: Aug 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

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

Roberta Villalobos and her husband, whose real names I’m concealing for questions of privacy, began looking for a house to buy in Durango over two years ago. But so far, they’ve struck out. ...

DATE: Aug 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Time to rethink impact of constant growth’

Tune to any news channel and you’re bound to hear the question: Is the United States in a recession? Two consecutive quarters of a negative gross domestic product is, by definition, a recess...

DATE: Aug 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘We need to build more, not tax more’

With bipartisan support for the $750 Taxpayer Bill of Rights refund checks that are hitting mailboxes this month, you would think that liberal special interests would back off their push to ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Don’t believe a cartoon talking bear on wildfires

Smokey Bear lied to us. I know that may sound harsh but it’s true. He told us, “Only you can prevent forest fires.” Ha! We know that there can be many causes of wildfires that we have no con...

DATE: Aug 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

What can go wrong this growing season

It’s that time of year when your mouth waters for a fresh, red, ripe, juicy tomato, but sometimes when you go out to pick one, you find that they aren’t forming the way they should or that t...

DATE: Aug 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Much to celebrate in passage of climate legislation

Those hoping to preserve a livable world for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren can find much to celebrate in the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act recently passed...

DATE: Aug 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Crime will change with different leaders

In early May, my car was stolen from a parking lot. Two hours after I left it outside of a park, it was gone. Far too many Coloradans are familiar with this experience. When the police arriv...

DATE: Aug 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

5 things Frisch must do to beat Boebert

Can Democrat Adam Frisch beat Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert? Up front, I should admit that I am not a Boebert fan. Her rhetoric makes gridlock easy and problem-solving hard. Clearly, I...

DATE: Jul 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Single-payer system benefits patients, physicians

U.S. physician organizations are shifting positions toward a single-payer healthcare system to benefit both doctors and patients. The single-payer system is a streamlined financing mechanism...

DATE: Jul 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Turn on comfort TV, turn off the strife

Like you, I can watch anything I want to on television right now. Between cable, streaming and YouTube, I can experience any adventure, get involved in any romance or inhabit any world I fee...

DATE: Jul 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Stakeholders object to Next Step design, want smaller upgrades

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

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

‘Time to rethink impact of constant growth’

‘We need to build more, not tax more’

Don’t believe a cartoon talking bear on wildfires

What can go wrong this growing season

Much to celebrate in passage of climate legislation

Crime will change with different leaders

5 things Frisch must do to beat Boebert

Single-payer system benefits patients, physicians

Turn on comfort TV, turn off the strife

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