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Israel votes

Bracing for Netanyahu’s comeback

September 16, 2019

On climate change the case is closed

This sounds right out of the mouth of Rush Limbaugh or some such Trumpian propagandist. Who would it be who…

September 15, 2019

Guest Columns

Relocating bears won’t solve problem of people

Having learned that neighborhoods contained a bounty of high-calorie foods, the bear had abandoned its natural wariness of people in…

September 15, 2019

Durango is going too fast the wrong way

Durango spends huge amounts on the River Trail: extending, concrete-paving, and building an underpass (humans don’t get hit by cars).…

September 15, 2019

Guest Columns

Mercy and Centura are focused on their mission

Rural communities are facing challenges across the country in providing needed health care. Many facilities are facing the tough choices…

Are the Democratic candidates ready for prime time?

Thursday’s Democratic debate raised the specter of four more years

An open letter to every lost Republican

You’ve said you value fiscal responsibility. You bludgeoned President Obama for ballooning deficits and the national debt when stopping the…

America now resembles Nazi Germany

2019: Trump tells immigrant families with children on life-saving hospital support they have 33 days to get out of the…

Tennis players and city partner on courts

Tennis players appreciated the new courts at Fort Lewis College and offered to assist with cleaning and minor repairs. Thanks…

Mike Littwin

Colorado GOP is on a lengthening losing streak

But what I didn’t predict was that the Dismiss Polis group would herald its spectacular failure with an announcement on…

Tattoo question marks on their heads

The mass shooting in Odessa, Texas, would not have happened if law enforcement had been able to take guns away…

Sports nutrition advice is misleading

I feel that the advice given in this article is misleading at best and irresponsible at worst. The article advises…

Ken Burns brings the pedal steel this time

filmmaker’s new series on country music starts airing this Sunday

Don’t try to change ‘climate change’

What’s so abundant that we hardly consider it as pivotal? Try water. Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth.…

Fareed Zakaria

As the world’s most successful political party ends

Like most enduring parties, the Tories have embraced many different factions and ideologies over the years. But in the post-World…

It’s not funny: Trump is Satan’s minion

He thinks he has the authority from God to rule like a deity. He thinks he has all the answers…

September 12, 2019

Negative train comments unjustified

The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is one of the reasons we originally moved to this area. We are…

September 12, 2019

Are we fated to partisanship? That seems likely.

seem to have been stuck on faction for the last 230 years

September 12, 2019

Thanks, Mike, for checking on recycling

Wondered how many were as horrified as I was to see how plastic is taking over the oceans and some…

September 11, 2019

No open-carry makes children happier

Not long ago, I was at City Market north and a man entered at the same time with a handgun…

September 11, 2019

Ross Douthat

It’s the age of American despair – can we fix it?

The working shorthand for this crisis is “deaths of despair,” a resonant phrase conjured by economists Anne Case and Angus…

September 11, 2019

City manager done in by knuckleheads

I’ve known him professionally for 12 years, both as a pestering reporter and editor at The Durango Herald, and for…

September 10, 2019