The results of a city of Durango-sponsored survey showed that Durango residents want the city to focus more on resolving the negative impacts of tourism and less on marketing the…
When someone loses their job, they don’t eat out, they don’t travel, they don’t buy cars, they don’t buy from Amazon, they cut back on groceries. When hundreds of thousands…
The Fix Our Forests Act (H.R. 471), passed the House and heading to the Senate, prioritizes logging interests over proven community protections like defensible space and emergency planning. It bypasses…
Reading the article on the proposed censure of Olivier Bosmans by City Council (Herald, Feb. 6), I was dismayed. Listening to the recording of the meeting increased my concern given…
Growing up near Seattle, I spent countless summers visiting Canada – leaping into the frigid salt water of British Columbia, devouring boxes of Smarties (Canada’s superior M&Ms) and chatting up…
Thank you very much for “Our view: The president with a cudgel – When will Republicans end it?” (Herald, Feb. 9). Trump’s illegal destruction of our basic, common foundational principles…
As if the industry’s inherent cruelty wasn’t enough to ban fur, then it must also end for the well-being of our environment and human health. Fur farms don’t bring up…
Our new Rep. Jeff Hurd has made sticking his head in the sand into an impressive art form. Since he and Trump took office, he has said nothing about the…
My simple view of our government is outdated but consistent with our Constitution. Our Congress negotiates (scary word here), compromises and passes a budget, sends it to the president who…
My family came to Durango in the late 1800s and has been continuously there ever since, though I live in Farmington. Room 401 at the Strater Hotel, “The McCormick Family…
We all wish to find an emotional connection with someone this year. Creating a love that will be so dear. In our earthly life we desire to be one in…
Sunday’s editorial (Herald, Jan. 26) is exactly what I would expect from The Durango Herald. The Herald does not seem to recognize that a majority of voters elected the president.…
I have contacted city, county, state, and federal government and news outlets over the past two or three years and nothing has happened to my request for automated doors at…
With appreciation and gratitude, I would like to thank Dick White for his heartfelt presentation on “Climate Migration: A New Normal,” offered Jan. 16 through the Life-Long Lecture Series at…
Wanted: farm laborers, dishwashers, overnight janitors, hotel housekeepers, slaughterhouse workers and roughnecks. Only white males need apply. Must show proof of great-great grandparents’ American citizenship with presentation of notary-stamped birth…
Musk/Trump’s extraordinary abuse of power attempting to unilaterally cut trillions from our budget is frightening. These actions not only ignore the fact these funds have been allocated by Congress, but…
Now that President Donald Trump is putting together his Cabinet and top administrators, it has become quite clear where his priorities lie. Having campaigned on “rescuing the middle class,” Trump…
Jeff Hurd, you ended up choosing the wrong time to go to Washington. That is, it will be the wrong time if you end up supporting the unethical, vindictive, retributive…
A top priority for President Donald Trump is extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but despite all of the touting of this, it is worthwhile to revisit how this…
The recent Durango 9-R School Board meeting revealed a troubling lack of transparency, disregard for parental rights and failure to maintain neutrality as the district faces declining enrollment. With only…
Thanks, once again, to Mike Sigman, for his mansplaining talent. This time he tries to teach us the science of sexual imprinting and the “needless exposure to abnormal sexual behavior…
There are only two flags that belong in a public school classroom in the state of Colorado: the American flag and the Colorado state flag. The board’s insistence on rewriting…
Way to go, Durango, Chapman Hill is drawing more visitors than ever! Except you probably can’t find parking. Overflow is pushed into the gun club or farther across the roundabout…
Undocumented immigrants have come to the United States to escape horrendous conditions that include violence, rape, extortion and kidnapping at levels that none of us in the United States can…
It is so dismaying that the Weminuche bighorn population has dropped from 460 to 290 since 2011, especially when the target population is over 1,000 animals (Terry Meyers, Durango Herald,…
After the inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pause the disbursement of funds under the IRA. Theoretically, he should not be able to stop the funding permanently…
I experienced a wake-up call this past week when I had an abnormal imaging study. I was referred to CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital Breast Care Center in Durango for a procedure.…
RFK Jr. states that despite opposition from the Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization, Fauci declared that “remdesivir” will be the “standard of care” for COVID-19, then overlooked…
If our judicial system and lawyers don’t care about the justice system – trials and judgments that takes criminals off the street – why should any of us? Why should…
