We are a community of different people. In many ways we are alike, and in many ways, we are very different and diverse. I’ve been thinking about our community lately…
The La Plata County Board of County Commissioners must improve the process in which residents for whom English is not a first language can provide input on how $10.9 million…
This week my child completed the Durango Healthy Kids Survey. This survey asked many very personal questions around subjects such as sexual activity, drug and alcohol use, safety at home…
With Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving this month of November, outside of taking action yesterday, now is the time to finally remove the grotesque statue outside of the Toh-Atin…
Critical race theory, a once-obscure academic concept, has recently emerged as a source of contentious debate. Unfortunately, the term is misused and profoundly misunderstood. The right-wing rebranding of CRT is…
Scott Beckstead’s rebuttal (“Americans will always revere wild horses,” Herald, Nov. 3) of Andrew Gulliford’s earlier misinformed screed against wild horses makes some important points about the Bureau of Land…
Dick White states that “(u)nity is crucial in fight against deadly threats of extreme heat, cold, storms” (Herald, Oct. 29). I wholeheartedly agree. We must unite in taking the necessary…
Newspapers would have benefited from tax credits in Local Journalism Sustainability Act
Since 1972, the federal Pell Grant Program has expanded access to education for millions more Americans than otherwise would have earned a college degree. The grant has made college affordable…
I am writing to encourage the Bayfield School District to include books that represent LGBTQ themes and other marginalized populations into free reading classroom libraries, at all schools at all…
Front-page headline in the Herald on Oct. 22: “Durango experienced 62 elevated ozone days in 2020.” When I read that headline, I’m like wow, that sounds really bad. After reading…
Hurray for Housing Solutions. Opening the Espero Apartments won’t solve all the problems of affordable housing in Durango, but it shows that when people work together, solutions are possible. I…
Thank you, Melissa Youssef and colleagues, for initiating a petition to improve health care in Durango at Centura Medical Center. I have, in fact, stopped referring to our regional hospital…
The crescendo of hateful, divisive and misinformed rhetoric displayed by individuals at recent 9-R school board meetings reached a new high, or rather low on Oct. 26, when an individual…
I’m putting on my parent hat only for this letter. How do you feel about white supremacists? What about those that celebrate the Nazi regime? Should these kind of hateful…
As the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, I was deeply disappointed and saddened the third time in the last month, when our church signage was vandalized. The…
A year or two ago, I was driving into Durango on Halloween night. I was rather bemused by the universal lack of lighting on children’s costumes as I approached what…
How dare The Durango Herald vilify Christians and especially Christians who are running for school boards in the article regarding school board candidate Richard “Dean” Hill! Your actions are no…
is crucial in our fight against deadly threats of extreme heat, cold and storms
Public education in the United States is the envy of the world. It is the primary reason our country is so successful. Our system is designed to bring diverse socioeconomic…
There’s not much I recognize about Durango in this prophesied Kali Yuga daze compared to when I was kid my daughter’s age in the early ’70s. Yet? I certainly can…
How impractical to locate a fire station, which will also include EMT ambulances, police industrial lighting, secured fencing, the unknown noise of chainsaws and engine checks at an already busy…
I’m responding to an Oct. 8 story in the Herald about the decision to remove a book from a Bayfield Middle School teacher’s classroom library. Superintendent Kevin Aten made this…
In the Oct. 13 Herald, Durango School District 9-R board candidate Donna Gulec cautioned against “diverting scarce educational resources away from teaching reading, writing and math, toward making schools into…
Durango School District’s national test scores are below the 30th percentile. Only 31% of 9-R students are at their grade level in math and 50% at their grade level in…
I have been reading with great interest about the Durango School District 9-R school board candidates, especially the slate “Building Durango’s Future.” I would like to suggest that those who…
Thank you for publishing the “Context for petition to improve health care” at Mercy Regional Medical Center (Herald, Oct. 23). Mr. Parker’s Oct. 17 letter to the editor caught my…
I’m wondering why the Herald isn’t reporting on what’s going on right now at Mercy Regional Medical Center with COVID-19? A fully vaccinated friend of mine with a breakthrough case…
