Letters to the Editor

City sending hostile message to neighbors

Based on the modern design and the request for a variance to the commercial height limit, it’s clear the hotel…

September 25, 2013

Take a small step and vote ‘yes’ on bag law

It is seldom given to any of us to make a big difference. Fires, floods and mudslides can have a…

September 25, 2013

Evangelist’s video at Vallecito this weekend

Come join millions of people across America for an evening or two of encouragement and hope that is so vital…

Second Avenue rise will be Third Avenue fall

The residents now on East Third Avenue are treated like minorities without much say as to height restrictions on the…

Scott Tipton, Congress acting irresponsibly

When the government shuts down Oct. 1, they get paid, but the military gets IOUs, and the recovering economy is…

Obama’s micromanagment is a failure

Well, by print time, the House had passed a bill to fully fund the government with the exception of Obamacare…

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…

Greed must motivate courses’ high cost

Jeanette Hammons Cortez

September 23, 2013

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

Richard Young Bayfield

September 23, 2013

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

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…

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?…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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