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Letters to the Editor

Wait – what did I just read about 9-R?

This sounds like a time police would be needed. It also should be a problem for a “communications director” of…

December 10, 2018

Tim Egan

Bots and artificial intelligence are taking over now

The plane is a new machine, Boeing’s sleek and intelligent 737 Max 8, fitted with an advanced electronic brain. After…

December 10, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Great Sand Dunes ducked bullet for now

The Bureau of Land Management thankfully deferred plans to offer a massive swath of land for oil and gas drilling…

December 10, 2018

Guest Columns

Making criminals out of the homeless won’t work

Homelessness is a problem. It is a complicated problem. The Homeless – seniors, adults, men and women, students, children, without…

December 10, 2018

Guest Columns

Conservation fund needs to be revived, saved, now

du1-i-syn So, I went to Washington, D.C. to talk to Colorado’s Congressional delegation about the significance of the places I…

December 9, 2018

Guest Columns

No mystery in the failure of that city tax increase

du1-i-syn From information published in the Herald, it seems you are confused as to why your tax increase proposal failed.…

December 8, 2018

Letters to the Editor

City, Herald, trying to fool us on roads

We have problems, but this story is a joke. Every voter in Durango, please go and check out Weston Drive…

December 8, 2018

Guest Columns

Colorado deer, elk are safe for now

du1-i-syn CWD has slowly spread over the last few decades, and some hunters are worried it will decimate deer populations…

December 8, 2018

Editorial Cartoons

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December 8, 2018

Guest Columns

The real China challenge: managing its decline

Its economy, the magazine suggested, would soon overtake that of France or the U.K. as the world’s fifth largest. São…

December 7, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Herald, admit Dems want open borders

Yet, the fact that the current administration used tear gas now qualifies critics to call us weak. The Reagan administration…

December 7, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Durango! I have our next police chief

He has been employed by the city of Durango longer than any other employee. His roots are here, his family…

December 7, 2018

Editorials

The unmaking

Wrangle over Bears Ears asks whether president has the power of reduction

December 7, 2018

Frank Bruni

H.W. Bush and the maddening wars over his legacy

He praised George H.W. Bush. The former president had just died. In Behar’s view, it was a moment to recognize…

December 6, 2018

Letters to the Editor

We do have room for wolves in Colorado

I have worked as a veterinarian for 28 years, the majority deep in wolf territory. Wisconsin has a stable population…

December 6, 2018

Letters to the Editor

I’ll gladly stand up for Dan Snowberger

I will stand up, but not in the way as framed by the editorial. I was a state legislator for…

December 6, 2018

Editorials

The bees’ needs

We’re losing insects at an alarming rate. There’s another bright spot in hemp.

December 6, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Costs high for power from coal-burning

Unfortunately, that is especially true for electricity. We are learning that the health effects of generating power from coal are…

December 5, 2018

Letters to the Editor

We need wolves; we need to return them

Efforts to strip federal protection from wolves across the northern Rockies, consigning them to the bullet, steel trap and poison…

December 4, 2018

Editorials

Who will stand up?

District 9-R’s governing body can’t see problem with superintendent

December 4, 2018

Dana Milbank

The 2020 presidential field – oh, we have names

But we can now stop the bidding. Because a 45th candidate has just emerged, and he is about to clear…

December 4, 2018

Letters to the Editor

Youth will demand action on climate

Nationally, youth turnout was the highest in 25 years. Young Coloradans in particular turned out at some of the highest…

December 4, 2018

Letters to the Editor

House bill to tax carbon is ray of hope

We are grateful for this and other actions to address worsening wildfires. The main cause of increased wildfires has been…

December 3, 2018

Letters to the Editor

I’m not sure hunters are the elk culprits

I have hunted the Durango area since 1992 and agree with other hunters that elk hunting was great 10 to…

December 3, 2018