“Even if we cut services that our community needs — maternity care, behavioral healthcare, diabetes management — it wouldn’t make a significant dent in the gap we’re facing…”
HIGHWAY RECONSTRUCTION: Major Traffic Impact Begins Today
Traffic will be configured in a one-lane, alternating pattern (24 hours a day and seven days a week), and delays are expected….
EDITORIAL: A Government Obsessed with Recreation? Part Nine
Does it really matter who owns the flammable forests that surround us here in southwest Colorado? Maybe they’re destined to burn eventually, no matter who owns them…
WHAT THE HEALTH: Hundreds of Foreign Doctors Training in the U.S. May Have to Leave the Country
“It will be the patients that suffer the most because… there’s going to be hundreds of places that are not going to have a physician…”
REAL ESTATE: The Riley Report
Vacant land sales are where we see the greatest decline. The cost of building a new home is part of the story…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Guy on Top of the Bridge
Guido Reichstadter described himself as the father of two children with masters degrees in both math and physics…
ESSAY: Burnout Has Replaced Rebellion as Our Defining Pathology
Ninety years after its release, the film Modern Times no longer looks like satire…
POETRY: The Shattered Covenant
The golden age that might have been / has turned to rust and ruin…
Concert Hall at the Park Returns to Buckley Park with 2026 Summer Lineup
Free weekly concert series brings live music, community, and summer evenings together in downtown Durango…
Colorado Voters Likely Shielded from Effects of Supreme Court Voting Rights Decision
The Colorado Legislature last year passed the Colorado Voting Rights Act, and sponsors specifically sought to shield the state from federal actions…
EDITORIAL: A Government Obsessed with Recreation? Part Eight
For the past five years, the McDonald’s drive-in has been using its outdoor reader board, not to promote its menu, but to advertise for employees…
14th Annual Southwest Colorado Small Business Conference Set for Next Wednesday, May 6, in Ignacio
Experience a day of unparalleled networking and collaboration. Our event draws hundreds of professional business owners from diverse sectors…
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Eighteen
We had played for large gatherings at the Bull Ring for two years. We seemingly had reached our limit on how much we could earn there…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Phones… the Cigarettes of the 21st Century?
“Right before I go to sleep, I look at my phone. While I am at the dinner table, during class or my commute, I am looking at my phone…”
OPINION: Congress Advancing $70 Million ‘Slush Fund’ for ICE, While Cutting Support to Familes
“You can’t say you want to make America healthy again while reducing access to the very foods that help children grow and thrive…”
‘Community Conversations’ Will Address Potential Tax Issues in Pagosa Springs
A series of free ‘Community Conversations’ has been planned to allow government leaders to explain the perceived need for higher taxes…
Pagosa Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to Consider ‘Solidarity’
This service offers a liturgy of stories, readings, songs and shared reflections that help communities ground themselves in our history of showing up in times of need…
EDITORIAL: A Government Obsessed with Recreation? Part Seven
“I would argue that this opportunity is so valuable that it justifies a trade-off of foregoing other identified and unidentified initiatives, to secure the funding to ensure we acquire Reservoir Hill…”
Colorado Law Will Prohibit Sales of Dogs, Cats in Pet Stores
“Pet stores can still thrive. Communities can still connect with animals. But the pipeline that brought suffering into our state ends here…”