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When George Washington was a young man, he copied out a list of 110 "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation." Some of the rules in his list dealt with the niceties of...
DATE: July 8, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Robert McNamara, who died Monday at 93, lived a life that could have been written by Shakespeare or Euripides. He was a brilliant and accomplished man, a decent man by most accounts, who will be...
DATE: July 8, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Health-care cooperatives, membership-owned and with elected governing boards, are receiving some attention in Washington. While the larger debate is whether a government-funded insurance plan would...
DATE: July 8, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Meeting Michael Jackson back in the mid-1980s was one of the creepier experiences of my life. I was an editor at The Daily News and had to present him with an award in a large room with just a...
DATE: July 7, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
So how will your kids spend this summer? Building sand castles at the beach? Swimming at summer camp? Shedding IQ points?In educating myself this spring about education, I was aghast to learn that...
DATE: July 7, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced last Friday that she soon would resign as Alaska's governor, no one seemed to know what she intended to do instead.Maybe she...
DATE: July 7, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
WASHINGTON - Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats - at least on paper - have the power to pass...
DATE: July 6, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One policy of the Obama administration that understandably has attracted little public attention is its proposal to make the Federal Reserve a "systemic risk regulator." It's a well-intentioned...
DATE: July 6, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In response to questions from the City Council, the Durango Police Department recently completed an analysis of local crime statistics. It is a worthwhile effort for which Police Chief David Felice...
DATE: July 6, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
A home on Jenkins Ranch Road sold for $3.1 million on Dec. 31, 2019, making it the most expensive sale within Durango city limits in recent memory, according to a local real estate agent. The 7,567-square-foot home has six bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and one half bathroom, and sits on 3.81 acres.
