Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Why Girls on the Run matters

cca Girls on the Run is not a running club, or a track team. With a unique curriculum focused on…

October 1, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Sheriff and police chief missed the mark

cca It was great to see hundreds of people show up at the vigil to honor Charlie Kirk. However, Sheriff…

October 1, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Big thanks to all our summer work crews

cca I’ve been meaning to write this for several weeks, and the photo of the crew painting stripes on the…

October 1, 2025

Guest Columns

Voluntary family planning: the most effective, humane and least expensive way to address ecological overshoot

I was driving up Main Avenue, listening to a book and looking for the eye doctor’s office where I had…

October 1, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Octogenarian member golfers deserve discounts

cca I recently wrote a letter to the Hillcrest Board of Directors asking for yearly membership and T-fee discounts anytime…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

If not La Plata County, who?

cca Who snowplows the roads to get you to the doctor’s office?Who protects you when you are threatened?Who helps your…

September 28, 2025

Guest Columns

Tina Peters, Trump, and the defense of justice: states’ rights in a hyperpoliticized time

The horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk has left our country reeling. A suspect was arrested, and the next question is…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Charlie Kirk, a Christian nationalist martyr

cca The death of Charlie Kirk was tragic, especially because he was in the act of the exchange of ideas…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

An idea to support Hesperus Ski Area

cca Four years ago, we moved into our Hesperus home located where we can see the upper lift tower for…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Have we no shame, no compassion?

cca I cannot believe I am living in America, my beloved country of 81 years. I am appalled at the…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Hurd act leads in destroying public lands, collaboration

cca Coloradans overwhelmingly support public lands at the state, county and municipal levels. The annual Colorado College Conservation in the…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Vote ‘no’ on the sales tax hike

cca This November, La Plata County voters will be asked to approve a new 1-cent sales tax. Supporters say it’s…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Poem to the editor: Taking Measure

cca There’s a difference point, below which you won’t care to know about your fellow, whether up or down the…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Taxes are shocking, vote ‘yes’ on 1A

cca When we moved to Durango from Iowa in 1999, we were shocked at the low property tax bill. Our…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

A scowl nor unshaven face equal strength

cca D’j’ever notice how people who really want to be seen as something they aren’t overplay the role? Look at…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Free speech doesn’t shield us from consequences

cca It is appropriate to have career consequences for those celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Those with a moral…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

When will student achievement become the priority?

cca The release of the 2025 CMAS scores should make every parent in our community stop and think. While officials…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

A scar that never heals

cca The number of gun violence incidences that take place, in this day and age, is an atrocity. The fact…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Cutting and running is not leadership

cca It would be amusing if it wasn’t rather sad to witness Sen. Michael Bennet’s traveling campaign show in Colorado…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

A call to protect lives, press freedom

cca I salute The Durango Herald on its recent editorial, “Our view: silencing Gaza’s journalists silences the world,” (Herald, Aug.…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

A warning amid rising tensions

cca I fear the assassination of Charlie Kirk lit the fuse toward civil war. So remember the old Boy Scouts…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Not every online comment is a news story

cca The Durango Herald using online commenters to call into question the response of Durango Police Department officers during an…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Meddling in another country’s democracy

cca The former president of Brazil, Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years, three months in prison when the country’s Supreme…

September 28, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Paths to citizenship, then and now

cca Thanks for your front page essay by Christian Burney, “World Upended: Family’s lives turned upside down after ICE arrest…

September 28, 2025