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I’ve dedicated my career to mental health care in Colorado, from working on the front lines as a clinician to now operating a clinic that employs 10 skilled professionals. Throughout my career, I have ...
While federal fire mitigation efforts are being cut, LPEA has expanded ours. Using grid mapping and drones, they’ve launched proactive teams to create defensible spaces, increased tree trimming in ...
Jonathan Thompson’s article “Mining Madness” (Telegraph, March 27) includes “really… scary” facts that deserve highlighting. Trump’s executive order (EO) sets aside environmental protections to ...
Harvest season is all about fresh wild-foraged right here in the Animas food, family and friends. When watershed, even better. Here’s a look at your food is locally grown or this season’s bounty: Wild ...
If there was ever a question about Durango being a bike friendly town, one need only look around briefly. If that doesn't do it, then the annual Iron Horse Bicycle Classic will surely convince any ...
It’s happening earlier and earlier every year. At the start of the new millennium, the black bears living around Durango typically started emerging from their winter dens around mid-April. Today, ...
COVID-19 illustrates the vast deficits in our current ill-equipped health-care system. Why wasn’t our health-care system prepared for something like this? An argument could be made that it’s because ...
In regard to the upcoming primary election for La Plata County Treasurer, I would like to make the important distinction between speaking “negatively” of an elected official versus holding one ...
A group of young activists and I returned from D.C. with a new sense of purpose. Drawing close to strangers in our nation’s capital during the inauguration activities and joining arms with them to ...