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The odd thing about reporting on the coronavirus is that the nonexperts are supremely confident in their predictions, while epidemiologists keep telling me that they don’t really know much at all....
DATE: June 3, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Now that we have celebrated Memorial Day, summer has unofficially arrived here in La Plata County and with it comes the official kickoff for public review and input on the draft Land Use Code we...
DATE: May 31, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Over the past several weeks, many of us have noticed some of our favorite foods missing or in short supply at grocery stores and have even seen signs posted limiting the number of certain items...
DATE: May 30, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Like most Coloradans, I’m proud of the way our state is handling the COVID-19 crisis, and for this Gov. Jared Polis deserves real credit. He rallied the people of our state to flatten the curve of...
DATE: May 29, 2020 | UPDATED: 4 days 5 hours ago | COLUMN: Guest Columns
New Year’s Eve, 1943. Lajos Stillmann is celebrating his 22nd birthday with friends in a Budapest, Hungary, apartment. Someone suggests paying a visit to a nearby palm reader. The palm reader takes...
DATE: May 25, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
If you go outside at 8 p.m. on any given night, you can hear people howling. I often join in, too. We’re voicing our support for health care providers and other heroes – the women and men working...
DATE: May 23, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As Colorado begins to open back up, we know we have a big economic hole to dig out of. Unemployment claims are over 420,000, businesses have shuttered and a lot of Coloradans have seen their hours...
DATE: May 22, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
It is no exaggeration to say that a mega-drought not seen in 500 years has descended on the seven Colorado River Basin states: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California....
DATE: May 22, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Open a business now and or stay the course? Sacrifice lives or sacrifice jobs? The issue is almost as fraught as the simple choice facing all of us: Do we wear a mask to protect others or go...
DATE: May 22, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
There is now a vast army of young people ready and yearning to serve their country. There are college graduates emerging into a workplace that has few jobs for them. There are more high school...
DATE: May 17, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
What if there was only one candidate in each of the two La Plata County commissioner races next November? Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold have made this scenario more...
DATE: May 16, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
During the past seven years, I have been honored to serve on Durango City Council, and I am humbled to start my second term as mayor. I would like to thank Melissa Youssef for her exceptional...
DATE: May 15, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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.
