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Letters: What are Durango gun buyers planning?

Every country dealing with this terrible pandemic has managed to do so without guns, looting or riots. Buying guns tells…

March 26, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Ranchers who do it right

Colorado finalists for the Leopold award show the best of private conservation

March 26, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Fight the virus and be good Americans

Thanks, too, to the hard-working, selfless individuals dedicating their time and energy to cleaning and sanitizing all those countless places…

March 25, 2020

Editorials

Plague Journal: Perhaps it’s good to know even the apocalypse cannot bend our natures

Perhaps it’s good to know even the apocalypse cannot bend our natures

March 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: The one-percenters are killing us again

For decades, many politicians coming into office with little money leave with a bundle from lobbyists and insider trading. Blue…

March 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: From Italy, I bid you be positive, strong

My country is right now going through the hardest times since WW II because of the spread of COVID-19. I…

March 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Tell us how to help local businesses

For example, “We need at least 20 to-go orders every night to stay afloat.” Or, “Please help by looking at…

March 24, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Herald should help Durango restaurants

Many of us have enjoyed an anniversary or birthday dinner, hosted out-of-town guests or just had a relaxing meal at…

March 24, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Durangoans are being ripped off by gas prices

I see that the price of oil has dropped by over half, yet the price of gasoline in Durango hasn’t…

March 24, 2020

Editorials

Our view: In the pandemic, teach whomever you can

Closing schools makes sense. Denying online learning to all who can does not.

March 24, 2020

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial cartoons

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March 23, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Online art to stir souls

The Metropolitan Museum of Art collectiondu1-i-syn Then there is the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the many fine museums…

March 23, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: You can find the best virus advice on the internet

Yet some personal health facts remain unchanged. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers good advice for preventing community…

March 23, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Coloradans get gouged on gas prices

But gasoline prices have not come down here much since then. In Oklahoma City now, regular is going from $1.19…

March 23, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Overreaching pandemic powers cut our freedoms

And there are overreaching powers telling private businesses and citizens what they can and what they can’t do, the governor…

March 23, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Empathy is a given for all but Trump

The only explanation is that they are born with it (nature). That is, 10-odd million years of evolution as a…

March 22, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: We should donate to local businesses now

My hope is that we can quickly move to donate money for all the local business owners and employees. It…

March 21, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Now’s the time for action on rural internet

The morning of March 16 it announced the library would close at 5 p.m. By the next day, ICL posted…

March 21, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Cyclists, don’t be rude, follow road rules

I do understand why we ride, exercise, compete, etc. I experience so many riders running stop signs, red lights, not…

March 21, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Show your community love – stay home

Before FLC’s spring break, I spent some valuable time with my students processing the unfolding pandemic. Collectively we shared our…

March 20, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: I am writing to ask you to overreact

From the data I have read, every person infected will transmit the virus to 1.5 to 4 others. The German…

March 20, 2020

Editorial Cartoons

Editorial cartoons

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March 19, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: You’re too easy on far-left politicians

“Our politics and our pandemic have had some unfortunate overlap,” you wrote, “not least of which is Democrats and Republicans…

March 19, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Editorial is cheap, lazy and defamatory

It is a screed that defames both former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. By the way, the…

March 19, 2020