Letters to the Editor

Take time on Monday to honor those lost

Those we honor on this day will not be back. Whether you agree or disagree with a war, military action…

May 25, 2013

Marriage is about rights, not private life

By approving civil unions for gay couples, Jones shows support for the relationship a gay couple enjoys, which is commendable.…

May 23, 2013

Sheriff Schirard is the new Yosemite Sam

If he doesn’t like the laws the people of Colorado pass, he needs to immediately resign his position as sheriff.…

May 23, 2013

Citizens Police Academy a great experience

Being a person who thinks that the adage “ignorance is bliss” is not necessarily true, I decided to commit to…

Herald owes an apology for death story

For including details of his death and the events leading up to his death that were inappropriate and irrelevant to…

Keep DHS Life Class funding where it is

The new plan to relocate funding for this amazing program, under the administration of Superintendent Daniel Snowberger, is one of…

Concerns give new board member directive

I overwhelmingly heard them joining with me in desiring our community to be leaders in energy development that supports local…

Columns’ similarities wholly unintentional

As was the case with my own column published in The Durango Herald on April 20, “College admissions process proves…

Time to drown Postal Service in a bathtub

I had to assume they were lost for good. So I paid a locksmith to break into my car. What…

Support students with loan interest rate bill

This problem is set to get much worse this summer when federal subsidized student loan rates are set to double,…

Today’s scandal standard is perplexing

Boomers can take some credit for helping to advance civil rights. So where is the outrage and media uproar regarding…

Details on death did not belong in paper

The Herald should be ashamed that it allowed disrespectful details that where not needed to be included in the report…

May 18, 2013

Write letters to support veteran care

We are writing to ask our community to write letters to Congress and our governor supporting our vets. These men…

May 18, 2013

Bag ban spurs cost-effective stockpile plan

Bob Pfeiffer Durango

May 16, 2013

District 9-R wrong to end key programs

The new plan to relocate funding for this amazing program, under the administration of Superintendent Daniel Snowberger, is one of…

May 16, 2013

Council deserves praise for bag efforts

Why do these super-sized corporations still promote plastic bags? One local store never gives out plastic bags, but there are…

May 15, 2013

City should focus on issues other than bags

Plastic bags are already recycled in bins provided by grocery stores. I have long disagreed with one grocer that only…

May 15, 2013

Act now or kiss East, West coasts goodbye

As many are aware, we have created a greenhouse effect on our precious Earth simply because we choose to contribute…

May 14, 2013

City fine for speeding ticket is exorbitant

So I had my day in court. I shared my opinion with the judge. He seemed to understand how I…

May 14, 2013

Stop harming the Earth for convenience

We were in Oahu several weeks ago, quite a distance off the coast doing the archetypical “dolphin swim” (lots of…

May 12, 2013

Common sense and gun rights can coexist

In the 2008 Heller decision, the court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment applied to an individual’s…

May 12, 2013