Opinion & Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Cops should enforce law on passing lanes

Colorado Statutes 42-4-1013 says, “A person shall not drive a motor vehicle in the passing lane of a highway if…

August 19, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Majority supports council, bag ordinance

What’s with all the emphasis on foes – a minority of city residents and many from the county who are…

August 19, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Spread the word: Local doctors nix Medicare

Meanwhile, I’m thinking that blogging about this situation in Durango is a good idea. Reckon tourists who visit, parents of…

August 19, 2013

Editorials

Education and hope

Celebrate a day of bright beginnings

August 19, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Political ads aside, Herald doing a great job

Also, thanks to Doreen Hunter (Opinion, Herald, July 28) for shining a light on a glaring lack of equity in…

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Herald should find more important topics

What’s going on in the schools? Are they prepared for the coming school year? How did the summer tourist season…

August 17, 2013

Editorials

Fire protection

Questions for November ballot sound complicated, but would simplify things

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Weigh in on recreational marijuana Tuesday

All interested parties, whether for or against retail stores and regulations, should make plans to attend and be heard. As…

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Broncos a first step to Denver TV?

But what about those of us who aren’t into football but would love to see news, weather and politics from…

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

In intellect showdown, Brown is closing gap

However, the word “moronic” was edited out by the Herald. A while later I read a letter from Maurice Harrigan…

August 17, 2013

Editorials

Sweet spat in Telluride

Voters in Telluride will decide in November whether to apply a 1 cent per ounce tax on sugared soft drinks…

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Politics aside, Durango knows how to eat

I woke one day thinking I should go on a lunch quest to eat and visit with my friends at…

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

More input would set unwelcome precedent

The city charter requires that the City Council conduct a public hearing on the subject matter of any proposed ordinance…

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Fight against health-care leviathan

This anti-health care plan is so bad that the president has decided to delay many of the conditions of the…

August 17, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Child care centers must work for families

As McClellan stated, we as a community must come together to help our children. That also means all local child…

August 17, 2013

Editorials

Small hydro

A positive step toward cleaner energy, but larger issues must also be addressed

August 15, 2013

Letters to the Editor

FCC should re-examine logic of TV markets

With the acquisition of KIVA and KREZ by Albuquerque stations, and turning them into repeaters, those counties flipped to the…

August 15, 2013

Letters to the Editor

ADUs not best affordable housing option

With more than 50 percent of the properties in Durango already being rentals, Citizens for Healthy Established Neighborhoods is concerned…

August 15, 2013

Editorials

Phyllis Lee

A lifetime of service to the people of La Plata County and Southwest Colorado

August 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Commercializing Oxbow Park not the answer

The justification that this proposed put-in will alleviate congestion at the 33rd Street and 29th Street put-ins is ill-founded. The…

August 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Crosses Project only about helping children

It has always been the heart of the Crosses Project to see this as an effort in which people of…

August 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Sharpton one of countryâ€™s biggest racists

Years ago, he defended a young black woman in New York City who swore she was raped by two white…

August 13, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Reusable bags good for personal freedom

Recently, the Herald said that the argument about the plastic-bag surcharge boiled down to one side citing science and solutions…

August 13, 2013

Editorials

Multiple use and public lands

offerings go well beyond forest’s trees

August 13, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Problem with Animas not mines but sewage

That, of course, means acidic upstream waters, and countering that on site may well cause even more costly problems below…

August 12, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Bag fee a boon for city coffers, big stores

Currently, I am not being fined when I buy my pancake syrup in a plastic container. Nor my catsup, mustard,…

August 12, 2013

Editorials

Student-loan rates

Congress, president reach necessary deal to keep higher education attainable

August 12, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Children’s deaths were the point of crosses

Just as the sight of rows and rows of white crosses was a visual reminder of death of soldiers in…

August 10, 2013

Editorial Cartoons

Back to School

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August 10, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Regulate recreational vehicles, their names

I think it should be illegal to drive 22 mph slower than the posted speed limit with a name like…

August 10, 2013