Opinion

Reorganization of CDOT funding should spark statewide discussion

But it should also be seen as an opportunity. Given the broad and serious effect such a cut would have,…

Climate letter cited debunked science

I remember when the dissemblers called it global warming. I am sure that Mr. Veals’ eyes are all aglow at…

Heraldâ€™s coverage of candidates unfair

Remember, your job is to give the positive and negative in the news, not to try to sway people with…

Question sheriff’s spending on jail care

Foukas has the cost of providing medical care and salaries confused. The $629,000 covered both salaries and all medical costs.…

Too many basic flaws in Amendment 69

And isn’t this an amendment to “fix” all of those things wrong with Obamacare, after Pelosi urged Congress to pass…

Patterson will help Dryside water issues

Whether you are one of those who do or have observed this activity, I want to speak in particular of…

Americans consuming too much fluoride

The fluoride we use in Durango is derived from the smokestack scrubbers of the fertilizer industry, containing traces of arsenic,…

Understand ColoradoCare and vote ‘yes’

While Jackie Caudill’s letter to the editor (Herald, Aug. 10) correctly referenced several parts of the proposed amendment, she made…

When role models seem scarce, it is important to recognize our finest

We know them when we see them. We think of people who exemplify the best in all of us, who…

Op-Ed

Help is available for domestic violence

While the circumstances in this case may raise concerns of coming forward, asking for help and being believed, this legal…

Service at local post office deplorable

I visited our local post office to set up having her mail delivered here. After the usual 20-minute wait, I…

Business as usual no longer acceptable

At the meeting, several citizens shared the belief that sloppy production systems can be tightened up to reduce methane leakage.…

Feds lack funds to manage a monument

Evidently, the Obama administration and environmental powerhouse lobbies don’t care about maintaining national treasures, just gaining them. Zero credibility is…

Time to ensure students’ vaccinations are up to date and complete

For any parents behind on that score, or simply unsure, now is the time to ensure the kids have all…

Why give Mayday Mine another chance?

With La Plata Canyon getting unprecedented tourist visitation, and after the fiasco of the Gold King mining disaster, one wonders…

Right-to-lifers should pledge support

My suggestion is for everyone who is so concerned for the unborn sign a pledge to assume responsibility for the…

Trump’s off the rails; give Johnson a look

Your boy Donnie-small-hands (my nickname for Trump – he’s needed one for a while) has seriously gone off the rails…

Southwest Colorado benefits from unique program to help promising startups

Five of the most promising business ideas made presentations Thursday at the Southwest Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs gathering at…

Colorado Trail is a fitting monument to the woman who built it

Gudrun Timmerhaus Gaskill was known as the “Mother of the Colorado Trail,” but that title almost fails to describe the…

Lachelt shows how government can work

In the spring of this year, a county maintainer inadvertently damaged our irrigation pipeline. We didnâ€™t discover the damage until…

Do not make tourists pay for recycling

The lovely home we rented was outside the city limits so there was no recycling pickup. Undeterred, we made the…

Redeveloping Camino del Rio needed

Traffic on this thoroughfare is a fact of life because it is the only road through town. Unless a bypass…

Letter writer wrong on county spending

Fox attempts to create a scenario in which the current county commissioners are seen as having been unthinkingly profligate in…