Editorials
Our view: These partnerships stink
Donations to Colorado governor’s office get a fresh look from Denver TV news
Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Letters: What’s become of all the Republicans?
The Great Emancipator broke ranks with the prevailing Whig party and led our nation through a tragic war to advance the full citizenship of black Americans. Have the actions of…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: We would all benefit with Porter-Norton
Marsha has reached out to Colorado’s secretary of state in support of extending the deadline for the petition process for her presumptive opponent, Jack Turner, who is unaffiliated. She realizes…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: I’m grateful for the city mask ordinance
The best reasoning for such a difficult if necessary precaution was provided by the Trump White House itself when Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told Fox News there is…
Editorials
Our view: Celebrating Juneteenth
Marking this day in June as an end of slavery has been a long time coming
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Country is now full-scale disintegrating
The ideas once discussed only by the radical left are now all of a sudden mainstream. Since the media and leftist (Democratic) politicians have been espousing the lie that America…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Our bored teenagers turning to crime
The tagging on the abutments at Bakers Bridge and elsewhere defaces Durango and the natural world we have always taken pride in. More of this vandalism has occurred at the…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Police officers must be carefully vetted
My brother was a police officer and I have friends in police forces across the country (one is a county sheriff; another is a retired chief of police for a…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Don’t sneeze in my general direction
Then there are zoning laws, alcohol laws, eminent domain, many laws addressing public safety, voting laws, and on and on! These protests over masks are a misguided use of one’s…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Herald should give the police a break
Here’s a couple of suggestions for your lists. Remove all the names of people who actively resisted arrest and/or the lawful orders of the police. Remove the names of people…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Deaths, body counts, published with glee
Start a tally of how many businesses have gone under or declared bankruptcy. I think that statistic is far more important than the body count. I’ll even start, Pier 1…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: I can follow Carl Sagan – but not your editorials
So why can I never figure out the point of your editorials? To me it seems they wander all over and then drift off; and I find myself asking, “Whatever…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Herald must be afraid to look partisan
Republicans in Congress, almost without exception, have hewed to the plutocratic authoritarian agenda of Trump and his allies. Democratic control of Congress is the only way out of the morass…
Editorials
Our view: Are these the times made for Joe Biden?
the candidate up to the moment, even as President Trump halts and falters?
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Local businesses must take these steps
Local community members would love to spend their dollars here, just like we always have, but we can’t do that if businesses treat our community’s health so cavalierly that their…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Memories with Cy Scarborough at Bar D
Dinner as usual was great and we had front row seats, which made it even better. We were seated with the boys on one side of the table with their…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: We’ll muddle through best as we can
However, our dear leader, President Trump, implores us that “if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” OK, Trump never said that or…
Editorials
Our view: The Magna Carta’s birthday
King John of England, from the illuminated manuscript “De Rege Johanne,” British Librarydu1-i-syn One landmark is the Charter of Liberties, a written declaration issued by Henry I of England, the…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Guidelines are there to protect workers
As a raft guide, I would not appreciate being put in that position. Four strangers on a boat, after a ride in a bus? It only takes one who is…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Tourists must be tested and quarantined
The medical science of stemming an epidemic is well known and has been practiced successfully throughout our country’s history. These principles include diagnosis, quarantine and contact tracing. Here is how…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Sunday is Flag Day – fly stars and stripes
On June 14, 1777, Congress adopted the first official design of the flag of the United States. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: It’s the Democrats to blame for all of it
Then they become sanctuary cities where illegal immigrants move in and take the jobs that are left. Police unions defend bad cops making it nearly impossible to remove them. School…
Editorials
Our view: Endorsement in Dems’ U.S. House primary
U.S. House, Dems may select a promising newcomer or a liberal standby
Editorials
Our view: Endorsement in the GOP U.S. House primary
a U.S. House seat, GOP voters can choose an incumbent or a firebrand
Editorials
Our view: Endorsement in the U.S. Senate primary
the Dem primary for U.S. Senate, Hickenlooper and Romanoff square off
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Schedule not in students’ best interests
As a grandparent who has supervised my grandkids daily since the outbreak, I have not been impressed with the online component, so three days a week online seems inadequate. Most…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Durango businesses are doing this right
Knowing that my chair will likely continue to be my closest physical companion over the coming months, I broke down and went to Durango Furniture and Mattress to seek a…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Our history is about taking responsibility
Modern culture tells me that I only need to look out for myself. Our social norms allow me to tout high values, yet utterly fail to show up for other…
Letters to the Editor
Letters: I wear this mask, not for me but for you
I don’t live in fear of the virus; I just want to be part of the solution and not the problem. I don’t feel the government is controlling me; I…