Opinion & Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Oregonian encourages local grocery-bag fee

Bravo to your City Council that is thinking ahead for the future of your community. A grocery-bag fee is the…

September 24, 2013

Editorials

Measuring threats

‘Richter scale’ for wildfire could promote better zoning, codes and insurance rates

September 24, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Greed must motivate courses’ high cost

Jeanette Hammons Cortez

September 23, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Why is the U.S. giving al-Qaida a pass?

Richard Young Bayfield

September 23, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Check the facts about presidential orders

The change in Army regulations was issued in March 1993, while Clinton was president. It was not issued as an…

September 23, 2013

Editorials

EPA regulations

Critics call it a ‘war on coal,’ but limiting power plant emissions is a welcome step

September 23, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Knowlton works without fanfare for county

It was hard to imagine flooding when we were in the middle of a hot, dry weather pattern, but Knowlton…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Save Durango from massive development

Why is the Third Avenue Historical Board silent about this? Because it’s on the south side of College, who cares?…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

The ‘right thing’ is to defeat the bag tax

Let’s all “do the right thing” and bag the tax on plastic and paper bags that the Durango City Council…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Oxbow will help everyone value resource

Late this summer, my wife and I took our three grandchildren on a float from Oxbow to the 33rd Street…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Robertsâ€™ opposing gun control inexcusable

Ellen Roberts, our state senator from this area, seems to be doing nothing and rejects anything that involves any type…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Garcia’s chef talent was heart of Francisco’s

First of all, my husband, Ted Garcia, was far more than a “culinary-trained chef” as recounted by his brother, Skip.…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Hotel snubs carefully crafted guidelines

This five-story complex running the entire block along Second Avenue between Third and Fourth streets would dominate the landscape anywhere…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Oxbow process, outcome offer great space

The topography creates a natural separation of the large preserve (35-plus acres), the park and beach area – where most…

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Talk of armed uprising no laughing matter

It also makes me laugh when I hear someone reciting the Fox “scandal” talking-points of Benghazi, IRS and NSA. What…

September 21, 2013

Editorials

Forfeiture

enforcement is a responsibility, not a business; it should not be driven by profits

September 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Money not the answer to broken schools

I graduated from a Southern California high school in 1959, when that system was considered the best in the nation.…

September 21, 2013

Editorial Cartoons

Ark Colorado

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September 21, 2013

Editorials

Funding standoff

Republicans foment government shutdown fears over Obamacare

September 19, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Herald plays favorites among amendments

This ability is foundational to the freedom of the people and was demonstrated recently in Durango when some concerned residents…

September 19, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Gun control only serves to enable criminals

Thanks to the left we have “gun-free zones” and of course we all know that any criminal or murderer worth…

September 19, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Ten things I learned at Blues & Brews

Always bring wellies. Don’t forget your coozy. Extra tarps are good. Volunteer (and love it). Keep an open mind. Ever…

September 18, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Forfeiture tied to Friday night presentation

Although the majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white, three-fourths of all people imprisoned for drug offenses…

September 18, 2013

Editorials

Covering contraception

Appeals court sets boundaries for religion exemption

September 18, 2013

Editorials

Syrian rebels

on the ground appear to be validating Obama’s diplomatic approach

September 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Stop it: Marijuana is not the problem

As a lifelong Democrat, I have few remaining ironclad principles. But these three I consider rock bottom: freedom from fear…

September 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Express ideas without name-calling

The people trying to implement authoritarian measures, whether about guns or plastic grocery bags, are fine, according to Herald editorials,…

September 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Change NEPA and allow forests to heal

The beetle has already killed millions of trees on hundreds of thousands of acres in the San Juan National Forest…

September 16, 2013

Editorials

Flooding

Range has lessons for local rivers

September 16, 2013

Letters to the Editor

A year after Benghazi and still nothing done

Is our commander in chief finally exposing himself to the shipment of war materials of all kinds to Syria through…

September 16, 2013