Opinion & Letters to the Editor

9-R parents and taxpayers deserve transparency, neutrality and inclusion

The recent Durango 9-R School Board meeting revealed a troubling lack of transparency, disregard for parental rights and failure to…

February 7, 2025

Guest Columns

Acceptance may loosen noose for caregivers

Mary Nowotnycca Remember seventh grade? Physical changes? Social and emotional upheaval? Perhaps a shift in school setting, classmates and teachers?…

February 6, 2025

Editorials

Our view: Pre K-12 could be a Colorado budget target

Work has been underway at the state Capitol since the beginning days of the legislative session to tackle the sizable…

February 6, 2025

Letters to the Editor

We can all do better

Thanks, once again, to Mike Sigman, for his mansplaining talent. This time he tries to teach us the science of…

February 6, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Board wrong about flags at Durango 9-R schools

There are only two flags that belong in a public school classroom in the state of Colorado: the American flag…

February 6, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Build it and they will come!

Way to go, Durango, Chapman Hill is drawing more visitors than ever! Except you probably can’t find parking. Overflow is…

February 5, 2025

Editorials

Our view: ‘The gut’ does the military no good

There are several images in President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the second just a week old, that will…

February 5, 2025

Opinion

Flying the bird, a rhetorical question

Roy Igo Durango

February 5, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Stop undocumented immigrant deportation

Undocumented immigrants have come to the United States to escape horrendous conditions that include violence, rape, extortion and kidnapping at…

February 4, 2025

Letters to the Editor

We can’t lose bighorn sheep

It is so dismaying that the Weminuche bighorn population has dropped from 460 to 290 since 2011, especially when the…

February 4, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Water, forest health, energy future depend on IRA funds

After the inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pause the disbursement of funds under the IRA. Theoretically,…

February 2, 2025

Opinion

Health care consumers beware of exorbitant costs

I experienced a wake-up call this past week when I had an abnormal imaging study. I was referred to CommonSpirit…

February 2, 2025

Opinion

Fauci, Gates, big pharma, and the global war on public health

RFK Jr. states that despite opposition from the Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization, Fauci declared that “remdesivir”…

February 2, 2025

Opinion

Where are local law enforcement advocates?

If our judicial system and lawyers don’t care about the justice system – trials and judgments that takes criminals off…

February 2, 2025

Opinion

The Golden Age of America begins right now

Greedy, insatiable tech barons seated at his throne in full display. Their wealth exceeds that of the robber barons in…

February 2, 2025

Opinion

Freedom of religion or a flag too far?

While Catholic and Christian Science and Presbyterian religions are dissimilar, they all often have Old Glory in full view in…

February 2, 2025

Opinion

Seniors, Veterans will miss BRIday

My son, Brian Shafer, and I have been volunteers at the La Plata County Senior Center. Starting in February, due…

January 31, 2025

Opinion

Let’s support, not destroy our school system

Perhaps the gentleman who suggested that this was the case (Herald, Jan. 24) feels that because there are more students…

January 31, 2025

Opinion

Matt Nimetz, Chapman Hill champion

There is one person who deserves recognition for this success – Matt Nimetz. When the city of Durango advertised for…

January 31, 2025

Opinion

Focus on eggs, not hate against gay and trans people

There have been gay and trans people since the dawn of time. Continuing to spew this type of hate perpetuates…

January 29, 2025

Letters to the Editor

We are living in a new era

With temperatures rising around the globe scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic…

January 29, 2025

Letters to the Editor

God save America, or is it too late?

God save America, or is it too late? Tim Fleming Bloomfield

January 26, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Wildfire prevention requires saying no to industrial-scale solar

I’d suggest adding a fourth: Deny construction of large-scale utility facilities that carry inherent wildfire risk. This includes large-scale lithium-ion…

January 26, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Men should bear equal responsibility for new life

Why is it, that religion-based groups, committees and this political administration, dare to cast the full responsibility and ethical blame…

January 26, 2025

Opinion

Firefighters don’t distinguish between red, white and blue

I am currently in the La Canada/Flintridge suburb on the edge of the Eaton Fire, which has burned over 14,000…

January 26, 2025

Opinion

Chalk art does not equal support for premeditated murder

Not only does the writer not include a single legitimate statistic regarding his claims, but he is going as far…

January 26, 2025

Opinion

Is it time for an election do-over?

OK, I’ll bite … as long as we can apply the same standards to other recent contests. Perhaps the Nov.…

January 26, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Hero worship: Jimmy Carter and us

I was on a Baptist mission trip in Southeast Asia in 1976 when a newspaper appeared at my motel door…

January 25, 2025

Letters to the Editor

9-R, sexual imprinting and a step too far

Most people instinctively understand this and that is why children are kept from unwanted sexual exposures while they’re young. Who…

January 24, 2025

Opinion

He will always be felon Trump

Our outrage should be off the scale. The Constitution clearly is at risk because the oligarchs assume they own the…

January 24, 2025