I worked in reproductive health care as a registered nurse in abortion care for approximately six-plus years. I took care of Texas women during the COVID-19 pandemic who were seeking…
Durango School District 9-R released the plans to rebuild Miller Middle School. The bond language said they were going to rebuild Miller to address the educational needs of the students.…
Well, I want to thank all the journalists who brought to light the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas was at the Jan. 6 attack on the…
Seven Western states and their leaders – all depending on water from the Colorado River – remain divided. Roerinkcca Split into basins by an imaginary border at Lees Ferry, Arizona,…
City leaders are asking citizens to reimagine a new and improved downtown. Soon the council will give its nod to one of four conceptual designs all with the common denominator…
Thank you, Bob Gramera, for standing up for President Trump (letter, March 12). Hypocrisy is apparently the mantra for politics in Colorado. Fact: Our borders need closed. Open borders put…
Wednesday’s commentary by Mark Squillace and his interpretation of “navigable rivers” for fishermen sounds like an excerpt from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s playbook of misinformation! He suggests that fishermen should…
Nearly two weeks have gone by where if there were referees overlooking the two sides fighting in Ukraine, Putin has the advantage by waving nuclear war in our face, with…
Our representative, Lauren Boebert, has become nothing more than a piddly heckler and a pusher of nonsensical conspiracies and lies. Not only is she an embarrassment to Colorado’s 3rd Congressional…
Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene showed themselves to be not worthy of the positions they hold in our national government on Tuesday night, when they heckled President Biden as…
In reference to March 4, The Durango Herald’s subhead on top of the front-page reading: “Man worries for future of separatist country; others believe Putin’s crusade is justified.” It is…
After reading the March 4 paper about the “opinions” of three women living in Durango (but formerly from Russia or Ukraine), I wondered why The Durango Herald chose to print…
Recent intelligence indicates that if Russian President Vladimir Putin elects to attack the U.S. he is most likely to use a nuclear high-altitude EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) weapon. These weapons, exploded…
Since its reconstruction in the 1990s, I’ve considered the so-called Swinging Bridge a perfect metaphor for the changes in Durango. Into the 1970s, the Swinging Bridge fairly bucked. It could…
Andrew Zeiler’s letter to the editor (Feb. 26) needs some clarification. The current exorbitant inflation was caused by flooding the market with cash in a shorter period than suppliers we’re…
The City Council has hired a consulting firm to come up with a new plan for Main Avenue. They came up with four choices, all with common features: Traffic on…
Regarding this push to bring Ascent Classical Academy to Durango, if one digs a little deeper, ACA seems to be a religious school trying to use language that does not…
I could not help but write after reading “As Durango grows and becomes more expensive, is its culture changing?” (Herald, Feb. 26). Perhaps it’s not the culture but the elitist…
Eighty-year-old Roger Hill used to go fishing on the Arkansas River in Colorado. But he sometimes had to duck baseball-size rocks thrown at him by landowners who insisted he was…
We face two major issues in Colorado concerning public education: We need to pay off the $572 million negative factor debt we owe our school districts from 2008, and we…
Reading Page 3A of the March 2 issue of the Herald, I was concerned to see that canine distemper has been found in local raccoons. At College Drive and East…
Once again, and seemingly on a daily basis, our faux representative for District 3 has continued on her relentless drive to be our biggest national embarrassment. Her disgusting, juvenile, disrespectful,…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered the productive coexistence that prevailed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With war erupting in Ukraine, Europeans suddenly are faced with the defense…
Could it be that the picture of Lauren Boebert heckling the president during the State of the Union address will become the clearest evidence yet of her complete unsuitability to…
Having been redistricted out of office, Sen. Don Coram, R-Montrose, touting his ability to “reach across the aisle,” has announced his intention to oppose Rep. Lauren Boebert in the 3rd…
What a sad day when Colorado is represented by a young woman in the U.S. House of Representatives who mocks and heckles President Biden as he delivers the State of…
In 30 years of working with wolves, there is always one constant, and that is that wolf reintroduction brings up strong emotions and misinformation. Dave Gibbons’ letter (Feb. 25) proves…
My friends, some writing in the Herald, keep saying “we must stand with Ukraine.” Trouble is, while we keep standing, the Ukrainians are being slaughtered by the big bad bear.…
