Cutting a billion from the budget is significant, but ending public media funding may do more harm than good in our district. As Senator Lisa Murkowski said, public stations are…
To ensure readers have accurate information, I’d like to address comments made in a recent letter to the editor, “LPEA board playing politics with subsidies” (Herald, July 16). La Plata…
A recent news report (available at sunlightreportinsurance.com) revealed that over the past decade the UnitedHealth Group had added close to 2,700 subsidiaries, acquiring physician groups, home health providers, specialty pharmacies,…
As a longtime Durango resident and LPEA member, I am increasingly troubled by a lack of transparency around our electric co-op’s financial contributions to nonprofit organizations. While many of us…
As a new resident, I would like to subscribe to The Durango Herald but the paper does not support a balanced view. You may disagree, but from articles I have…
I can’t forget pictures of intestines hanging on the fence and children’s bodies on the ground with limbs at impossible angles. Netanyahu claims they aimed at Hamas. He is creating…
Recently Rep. Jeff Hurd referred to public lands mismanagement, and his desire for public lands decisions to reflect the local communities rather than having these decisions made in Washington, D.C.,…
Residents of 7th Street are right to be concerned about the city of Durango Planning Department’s plan to put “back-in” diagonal parking on their street (Herald, May 29). Anyone who…
I moved to Durango in ’76 and have subscribed to The Durango Herald when I could afford to. It was disappointing to read a letter to the editor (Herald, July…
Recent media coverage, including by The Durango Herald (Herald, July 11, July 14) and Colorado Politics, referenced the Southern Ute Tribe’s statement about my visit. While I fully respect the…
O God of many names, Care that our nation may recover the strength of compassion – compassion for all the peoples of this world May the official deliberations and actions…
Remember when Trump called COVID a hoax and said it wasn’t his responsibility as president? How many tens of thousands of Americans died by his inactions and stupidity? Now he’s…
A mandate? Perhaps not. Typically, a newly elected president declares they have a mandate because they won the election. But is that an appropriate assumption? Considering the last election, President…
I just watched a video of Donald Trump addressing the people from Texas about the devastation that happened when the Guadalupe River flooded, and took so many lives of children…
While it is somewhat amusing to watch all the fuss about controlling speeding traffic in town, it also absurd. This is not a difficult problem to understand or solve. The…
The article on LPEA election finance was interesting (Herald, June 29). LPEA CEO Chris Hansen tells us that we deliver power to some members at a price below cost. He…
Sen. Michael Bennet has announced he’s ready to be our next state executive, and is trying to run for governor while working full time in a very busy, very difficult…
Your recent coverage of the LPEA election and James Coleman’s donations (Herald, June 29) leaves the misleading impression that Purgatory Resort received special treatment on electric rates. That’s not the…
I am sure Clyde and Paulette Church will retire to enjoying their time with each other. Many in La Plata County and Durango may not know this husband and wife…
Besides wanting to be better informed about local Durango happenings, I would like to support the local newspaper as a subscriber. However, I am turned off by the significant political…
The recent editorial, “Our View: Transparency: ‘Behind closed doors’ not uncommon, or illegal, but the public deserves to know of settlements,” (Herald, July 6) misrepresents how Durango School District handled…
During the 33 years since TABOR was enacted, the federal government has paid for a lot of things that Colorado needs: Medicare, Medicaid, wildland firefighting, the National Weather Service, disaster…
Nothing says I am afraid to hear from my constituents like having no staff in your Durango office. I dropped by to express my concerns regarding the “BBB” and there…
In the old days, before so many had refrigerators, there were what were called ice houses. In the summer of 1960, we visited one in Texas, on the way to…
Kudos to all those responsible for the design and installation of the new “letters” on the nature trail. They are excellent! Alma Evans Durango
In January, Donald Trump declared war – not on a foreign adversary, but on the institutions that make American democracy work. With the stroke of a pen, he laid off…
With all the confusion and unverified claims flying around the so-called “Big, Wonderful Bill,” as President Donald Trump calls it, I’m hoping Hope Scheppelman or someone from the La Plata…
Recently, I was pic-pocketed by a long time Durango medicated schizophrenic helping me put my back pack on – with groceries and, of course, wallet. She and others are soon…
The abomination that is the Florida detention center is a clear misnomer. Alligator Alcatraz? The prisoners of Alcatraz were give due process; they had the right to counsel and a…
Rep. Jeff Hurd has betrayed the people of Colorado’s third district by voting for this big bad bill. The third district’s median household income is about $70,000, putting most of…
