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Letters to the Editor

This whole homeless camp is ludicrous

This is ridiculous! It will be trashed and nasty in less than a month. And a homeless camp? Really? The…

October 9, 2019

Editorials

What if we’re pouring time and money into the wrong solutions?

‘Homelessness’ may be worsening because we think it’s all about homes

October 9, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Partisan Herald wants to negate votes

“Appearing to seek”? The president should be impeached not because he did something (show us in the transcript where), but…

October 8, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Letters: President is a communist sympathizer

It’s OK for the president to vilify progressive Democratic presidential candidates as filthy socialists, but hobnob with leaders from the…

October 8, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Base fluoride policy on science, please

His reasoning is couched in a false understanding of real science and reflects the ideology and misrepresentation of fluoride science…

October 8, 2019

Guest Columns

David Brooks: Why some Trump voters are holding on (for dear life)

URBAN GUY: I hope you read the rough transcript of that Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president. Trump clearly…

October 8, 2019

Michael Gerson

Michael Gerson: We have an American president who doesn’t understand America

In a 2017 Oval Office conversation between Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the president…

October 7, 2019

Letters to the Editor

This is no time to bring more wolves

In May this year, a story coming out of Banff concerning a wolf attack on a vacationing family should give…

October 7, 2019

Editorials

Our view: Proposed city budget raises questions

Did you hear about the study performed by consultants hired by staffers that found the staffers were overpaid? Neither did…

October 7, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Open carry was not ‘well regulated’

Even in the “Old West,” towns had rules to check your guns and not to open carry. There were, and…

October 7, 2019

Guest Columns

Clint McKnight: Let Democrats lead on wilderness protections

We will lose them if we don’t act boldly to protect both the land and the wildlife that depends upon…

October 7, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Democrats want to take your freedoms

Their “catastrophic climate change” statements were deceiving, lying and fear-mongering. They stated that hurricanes, because of Dorian (stalled by a…

October 6, 2019

Guest Columns

Kate Greenberg: Water weaves the tapestry that binds us together

The Blue and the Yampa rivers ran with the kind of wild fervor they would run with in early summer,…

October 6, 2019

Guest Columns

Sen. Michael Bennet: We can act now to end surprise medical bills

The hospital, however, was not in-network, and within days he was shocked to receive a medical bill for more than…

October 5, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Instruction in reading must continue

It is disappointing to learn that it was necessary that a revised law, including accountability measures, was required to ensure…

October 5, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Guns make us safer and we have proof

Since 2015, residents of Maine have been allowed to carry a firearm without any special permit, no background checks. No…

October 4, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Envision print as superior in some ways

Contrast the defeatist attitude of its Sept. 30 print editorial regarding its elimination of the Monday printed edition of the…

October 4, 2019

Editorials

Democrats can and must hold this president accountable now

launching impeachment inquiry, House members take necessary step

October 4, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Cancel? I’m extending my subscription

The Durango Herald is successfully evolving to digital-first reporting. Subscribers will still read a newspaper three days a week and…

October 4, 2019

Letters to the Editor

State broadcasters do want to serve you

I am the president and CEO of the Colorado Broadcasters Association. The truth is that Colorado broadcasters are working to…

October 4, 2019

Michael Gerson

Michael Gerson: The impeachment process is inevitable

This is effectively what happened when the White House released the readout from Donald Trump’s July 25 call with Ukraine’s…

October 4, 2019

Letters to the Editor

How does Mercy expect to pull this off?

It’s lofty, but what I can’t understand is how Mercy will benefit from that in this growing community by cutting…

October 3, 2019

Letters to the Editor

I want Colorado public TV in Durango

Public television is supported by donations from its listeners and not by commercial advertisements. Nielsen is a holding company whose…

October 3, 2019

Editorials

Here is a golden chance to build the world on four paws. Well, eight paws.

Rescuing feral cats may seem like a small thing, but it is not, by a long shot

October 3, 2019