Letters to the Editor

Reminder to bear proof your trash cans

This morning, garbage was strewn along C.R. 203 before the mobile home park. Thanks to all of you for being…

Criminalizing poverty is the real crime

Public space means you have a right to exist there regardless of the money in your pocket. Durango ranks as…

Reporting all crime essential for safety

Unless all crime is reported, any database will lack validity and fail to provide the community and police department with…

Get out to hear Dem primary candidates

Three Democratic candidates will be on the June primary ballot vying to be the Democratic nominee. For the first time,…

Multi-modal plans are just not realistic

There seems to be some reluctance on the part of those in charge of planning to recognize that perhaps 95…

Elect those who will fix insurance woes

Many feel that they don’t want more government involvement in health care, and that less regulation will lead to more…

Actually, it was bad air quality, Mom

I was a part of the generation who believed that those towering smokestacks were an image of beauty and economic…

Bring Ramos home, protect Dreamers

The Durango Herald recently reported on a local businessman Edin Ramos being deported to Honduras (Herald, May 9). His crime…

Some facts in light of letter to the editor

I am neither a gun owner nor an NRA member. SCOTUS has ruled to protect the Second Amendment from states…

Celebrate the miraculous recovery of Israel

Many ancient prophecies concerning the last days of human history assumed Israel would be a thriving, prosperous nation. It seemed…

May 18, 2018

Don’t blame energy industry for ozone

The story implies that the reason for unhealthy ozone days is emissions from power plants and “oil and gas operations,…

May 18, 2018

Paper disrespects families in tragedies

The fact that a story would be written less than 24 hours after a mother and father have lost their…

May 18, 2018

Registration open for Ouray art show

Categories include; oil/acrylic, watercolor, drawing & printmaking, pastel, mixed media, sculpture, photography and a student division. All entries will be…

The media is not all liberal journalists

As readers of the Herald well know, Mike is one of a handful of locals who routinely blasts liberals for…

Lachelt earned the respect of community

To suggest, as Peg Aldridge has (Herald, May 7), that Lachelt is a money-grabbing profiteer is insulting and is blatantly…

All welcome to come view powerful film

As inspiring an experience as that was, we are now wondering where to go next as we ride this wave…

Local voters still can’t see Colorado TV

The conventional wisdom was that this problem would be over after the last regime and their stated objective of doing…

May 14, 2018

Hacks hell-bent on destroying America

Where was the press when Jack the Zipper Kennedy was playing footsie with movie stars, having his body guards sneak…

May 14, 2018

Dance with me at the MAGA ball

Vocals are by DeVos, off key and having problems with the charter school lyrics. On dining room table, we have…

Clinging to false beliefs is stupidity

We all have pockets of ignorance. No single mind can hold all of human knowledge. Ignorance isn’t shameful when reasonable…

Tipton, Gardner should back wilderness

That’s why I am asking Sen. Cory Gardner and Rep. Scott Tipton to co-sponsor the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act…

A ‘tried and proven’ plan to prevent DUIs

I believe that the “tried and proven” Democrat solution to gun control would also work in this situation. All they…