But no parade took place this year, unless you wanted to count the seemingly endless stream of SUVs and pickup trucks and RVs with New Mexico and Texas license plates that crept through town, eastbound and westbound on Highway 160…
Category: Opinion/Letters
HMPRESENTLY: Let’s Hope Not!
According to the dictionary, “Something that is described as smoke and mirrors is intended to make you believe that something is being done or is true, when it is not.”
OPINION: History of a Crime
The first commissioner of the FDA was Harvey Wiley, the head of the Department of Chemistry. Even before he took office, the food and drug manufacturers were trying to get rid of him…
EDITORIAL: Council Makes No Final Decision on Masks… Part Three
“The only people that we’ve really heard from are people who go and visit Durango for a day, and then come back and say, ‘Oh, it’s roses and daisies over there’…
OPINION: Community Development or Corporate Welfare? Taxpayers Should Decide
Currently, Town voters have no control over these massive tax giveaways. But a group of downtown residents petitioned the Town Council to place Ballot Question A before the Town taxpayers…
EDITORIAL: Council Makes No Final Decision on Masks… Part Two
“I saw people, from other places, coming to my community and having what I viewed as a complete disregard and lack of respect for our community members, and our local businesses….”
EDITORIAL: Council Makes No Final Decision on Masks… Part One
“I think the town is overcrowded. I’ve been on the ‘recovery task force’ and I don’t think we saw this coming. It doesn’t look like any other year during Fourth of July that I can remember…”
OPINION: When Money Dies, Part Two
In Germany of 1923, you had the communists on one side and the national socialists on the other. Their numbers grew as the situation became more desperate…
OPINION: We Must Start Healing the Damage
Mass hysteria over social distancing, staying home to stay healthy, and wearing masks is not how humans have survived for countless generations…
HMPRESENTLY: Winking and Nodding
Winking and nodding seems to be getting more blatant. More pronounced…
EDITORIAL: Town Council to Consider Mandatory Face Coverings Tonight, June 30
“So, I know this is contentious. It’s really become a politicized issue all over the country, but I would like for the Council to have a discussion…”
OPINION: When Money Dies, Part One
To pay this back, the German government literally just printed money. They started up the printing press and they printed, and printed, and printed money until everyone was paid back….
OPINION: The Boys Who Cried ‘Blight’
When responding to a genuine public health threat, a local government proposing mandates and penalties needs credibility and a reputation for plain speaking and fair dealing…
LETTER: Saddened by Town Council Treatment of a Volunteer
Truly, we find it very disturbing that Mr. Hudson was personally and publicly attacked during a Council meeting in such a despicable and vile manner…
LETTER: Officials Who Ignore the Facts
I would welcome a Planning Commissioner, or a Town Council member, or the Mayor to actually change their mind occasionally, based on investigation of facts…
EDITORIAL: More School Testing Needed? Better Ways to Spend Limited Funds?
“There’s no need to spend our precious, very limited resources to go to private corporations for testing. We need to trust our educators to do what they do best…”
HMPRESENTLY: Huh? Removed Without Cause?
So I looked them up. I’ve heard the term, remove without cause, used, occasionally, over the years, but realized I wasn’t that familiar with the meaning of the term…
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Twelve
“…Bill Hudson has had a large part in circulating a petition that would require a Town vote for any URA project that involves over $1 million in [Tax Increment Financing] money…”
EDITORIAL: The Fragile Health of a Rural Hospital District, During COVID…Part Two
“We provide excellent care, but we’re not used to keeping critical patients here, past the Emergency Room visit. We send the critically ill patients somewhere else…”