I am an owner of a metals recycling company with a branch in Durango and the owner of commercial property near town. I am not currently able to operate said…
The reality of deep snow and cold temperatures also affects the local wildlife, making their struggle through winter that much harder. We have been reminded by our wildlife specialists not…
I’d point out that the 60 percent plus of Americans who think we’re not winning the war on terror would be at a loss to explain the difference between a…
In particular, I feel sorry for The Durango Herald. For seven years it has attempted to jump onto Obama’s lap only to find the space already taken by the panting,…
Liberals should like a revenue-neutral carbon fee and dividend because the dividend will protect the poor and middle class from increasing fossil-fuel costs. Conservatives should like the proposal because it…
We flew over the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam among other places. Every stop we made and every guest speaker we heard emphasized the…
You men and women have been working diligently night and day, risking life and limb when nobody in their right mind would be out there. My husband is one of…
I grew up with Columbus Day like every American, and now it is taken away? I was robbed of part of my life and childhood. It is meaner to take…
It is unfortunate the progressive directors have stooped to a new low and blame others for their ineptness. LPEA directors should have the courage to support these fine employees. The…
Durango needs to recognize how fortunate we are to have the service we receive. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Janice and Rick Bourret Durango
I expect that there will be selective enforcement on the new requirement that even a single gun sale will require a costly federal firearms license. Again, I looked into a…
No kidding. For the 20 years that I’ve lived here they’ve been “not rushing” this clean up! I guess they don’t realize that “Silverton” already means “mining waste.” “Superfund” simply…
Roger Cohen and Grossman chose the HadCRUT3 temperature record to decide their bet, but that source was the subject of scandal as baseline temperature data was manipulated and adjusted, in…
Each year in Colorado, a significant number of people who are terminally ill suffer unnecessarily for long periods of time and experience prolonged deaths. In order to hasten their death,…
The Colorado Enabling Act, in Section 4, (please Google) clearly states that as a condition of statehood, “the people inhabiting said territory do agree and declare that they forever disclaim…
Step one, carbon pollution. As the extreme onslaught continues, flooding in the Midwest and the intense chills in New York, it is finally time to acknowledge the severe changes, and…
It is important that we create fair congressional districts, not ones drawn by partisan politics. However, I have deep concerns that the current redistricting proposal has been conducted by power…
Call me silly , but the Durango Herald has been a primary source of news for me for those 30-plus years, not just local, but state, national and even international…
Corporations, Republicans and forced birthers are deadbeat parents that undernourish 22 percent to 36 percent of America’s born children and create barriers to education. This is a plan for programmed…
Although I do not believe in organized religion because of the centuries of wars it produced – still produces – I pray under God and other loving forces to create…
For years, Stapleton has obscured the truth about Colorado’s best investment, PERA. PERA provides state troopers, snowplow drivers, teachers and other public workers a secure retirement through a defined benefit…
Then there is, “If you’re not a Democrat when you’re young you have no heart, and if you’re not a Republican when you’re old you have no brain.” Today, it…
I’m registered affiliated only so I can vote in primaries. In general elections, I’m independent. If I support women’s right to choose, free birth control for the poor, death with…
It turns out the Republican debates and candidate antics are far funnier than he ever was! Tea partiers have finally found their man in their endless search for “the biggest…
1) Gun ownership is a right, driving is a privilege: Conflating the two makes an interesting argument, however, if you needed a learner’s permit to own a gun, which is…
Denis Castro’s letter (Herald, Dec. 29) employed this intellectually dishonest tactic attempting to blur the message of an op-ed piece about the epidemic levels of U.S. gun violence. In his…
He spouts off as if to be taken seriously, but what he says lacks any semblance of substance, fact or truth. In fact, the global warming denialism he perpetrates is…
