The passing of SB 15, which will offer in-state college tuition for Colorado illegal residents who were brought here as children by their parents, opening up the prospect of higher education to thousands

The long-awaited release of the city’s Draft Multi Modal Master Plan, paving the way for easier, cleaner and more efficient alternative transportation and helping to ween Durango from the pump
The State Legislature forwarding a bill that would ban trans fats from school lunches in a state where one in four children is overweight or obese

The recent luring of a Bayfield man from his home in order to steal firearms, the second brazen, broad daylight crime in as many weeks in rural La Plata County to hit the headlines
 


The last-ditch attempt by developers of the former Boker Lumber site to sneak a massive development in through the planning backdoor despite City and residents’ concerns over size, scope, traffic and safety
 
Pizza Hut’s recent acsent to the pinnacle of gluttonous, artery-blocking, fast-food abominations with its hot dog-stuffed crust pizza, now being test-marketed in the U.K.