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One measure of how things could turn further for the worse amid a pandemic came with the waves of civil unrest that consumed city after American city last weekend. Not only were thoughts of social...
DATE: June 2, 2020 | UPDATED: 1 day 21 hours ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
If you have ever wondered what becomes of the products of purely happy childhoods, one answer seems to be they become deeply committed artists like Philip Roth. The prolific American writer...
DATE: June 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Durango’s restaurant owners are creative. Not only are there a lot of them, but they provide a variety of menus, service style, prices and inside décor. Give the downtown locations some additional...
DATE: May 29, 2020 | UPDATED: 5 days 17 hours ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
So much trouble in the future could be avoided if we could only learn from the past and heed the dicta: Pay the troops – and pay their bonuses. The practice of paying deferred bonuses to soldiers...
DATE: May 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Abraham Lincoln had a history with Roger B. Taney stretching well back from May 27, 1861, the Monday Taney rebuked him. Taney, scion of a wealthy, slave-holding family in Maryland, was a lawyer and...
DATE: May 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
If you have spent much time on social media lately – that would be Social Media 2.0: The Quarantine Version – you may have seen posts of people who have used their unlooked-for time at home to pose...
DATE: May 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We look forward to the results of Durango’s electric vehicle readiness plan, which is close to being delivered (“Durango charges forward on electric vehicle readiness ,” May 15). In conjunction...
DATE: May 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Durangoans are known for their generosity in time and money. We have not seen any calculations that affirm that community quality, but it is in the air. Happily wait for a driver to pull out of a...
DATE: May 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In early 1932, Franklin Roosevelt’s advisors were divided about how he should approach the fall election even before he won the Democratic nomination. Fresh off re-election as New York’s governor,...
DATE: May 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Not to be deterred – because really, what is there to deter a party when it has majorities in both houses of the state Legislature, if it is neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor a rabid...
DATE: May 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There is an unwritten rule in journalism that reporters must never misrepresent themselves, which is adhered to except when it isn’t: Think of any undercover investigation you’ve seen, like the...
DATE: May 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We had gone quite a ways without a single death from COVID-19 in La Plata County when we discovered last weekend we had our first. Unfortunately – perhaps – that was all we were able to discover....
DATE: May 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The homeless population at Purple Cliffs now have a kitchen, running water, bathrooms and hand sanitizer. They made a group decision not to leave the camp whenever possible due to the Coronavirus . They even have a mini-government growing. People not at the camp are having a different experience.
