Opinion

Every now and then, you send your representatives off to the state capitol and though they do not write when they find work, they manage to stay out of trouble long enough to do something good. It...

Readers may have noticed that about 40 protesters gathered Tuesday morning in front of the Durango headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. All protest is good for the body...

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, announced Monday, are a cornucopia of reporting, of working the phones, and sources and email and Twitter, as well as shoe leather. (The winners and...

Watching a nature documentary these days, despite great technical strides in film-making and perhaps because of them, it is hard not to feel we are saying goodbye to everything – every species,...

We have had roughly the same two parties in the U.S. competing and, over the long haul, checking one another, for more than 160 years. For the second half of that span, each has believed at various...

We were joking the other day that we ought to keep calling Pete Buttigieg “Mayor Pete” even after he wins the presidency in 2020. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is a come-from-behind contender...

There was a Depression-era sign we saw once, in a photograph of a gas station. It said: “Free air – It’s your country, don’t let the big boys take it away from you.” We admired the simplicity,...

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and their baby girl Scottie moved to Great Neck, a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. It was farm country then, becoming railroad...

The narrow passage Tuesday of the city’s half-cent sales tax is good news for Durango, not because the city needs the money to fix the roads, which it does, but because the narrowness shows...

Who said children who cross the U.S. border from the south should be deported as quickly as possible? Who said, “We have to send a clear message that just because your child gets across the border,...