40°
Name:
Screen name:
Email:
Donald Trump is a lawless president and revolting person who richly deserved his impeachment and, in a better world, would be convicted in the Senate and removed from the White House. That’s my...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2020 | UPDATED: 3 minutes ago | COLUMN: Guest Columns
There’s a witticism that makes the rounds on Twitter whenever Donald Trump does something particularly plutocratic or corrupt, a variation on the following: Look, this is what all those folks in...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2020 | COLUMN: Ross Douthat
Small-town politics are unique because local residents are connected to each other in so many ways. We are friends, neighbors and co-workers. We experience multi-layered community relationships and...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2020 | COLUMN: From the Mayor
In Sen. Cory Gardner’s op-ed for this paper (“It was a great year for Colorado ,” Jan. 11), he talks about Colorado’s wellbeing. I have had a pretty great year here, but in spite of my senator, not...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
This is a golden age for “Theyism,” the belief that there is some malevolent, elite “they” out there and “they” are destroying life for the rest of us. There is Donald Trump’s culture-war Theyism:...
DATE: Jan. 24, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
“The first principle,” said Richard Feynman, “is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.” When it comes to pundits and politics this year, I’d revise the great...
DATE: Jan. 22, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In January 1937, near the end of Franklin Roosevelt’s first term as president, Life magazine published a map of the United States spread over two full pages. The headline read: “What President...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2020 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
We’re off and running! The 2020 state legislative session started last week, and the Capitol is buzzing with predictions and expectations about what will happen this year. We’re also reflecting on...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2020 | COLUMN: From the State House
Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we’re not like him – that...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2020 | COLUMN: David Brooks
One day they may name a street after President Donald Trump in Tehran. Because Trump ordered the assassination of possibly the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Middle...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Thomas Friedman
As we look back on the past year and look forward to the year ahead, I want to share some of the victories we were able to accomplish. Good news doesn’t always make the evening broadcasts or the...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
“Raise your taxes or we’ll cut your state funding.” That’s the message politicians would be sending school districts under a new proposal that is being worked on for the 2020 legislative session,...
DATE: Jan. 8, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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.
