Opinion

Toxic metals still remain in the river

Obviously they have settled in the sediment where they will affect aquatic organisms, move further downstream and become magnified in…

Targeting people

Justice Department to prosecute individuals in corporate crimes

Support moving Durango’s sewer plant

This topic of moving, or not, the sewer plant is of major importance. We will have to live with the…

Look into why local gas prices stay high

Obvious price coordination among our local suppliers raises the question whether there is some type of price fixing here in…

Abortion must be safe, legal, last resort

Women were still getting abortions. Rich women got D&Cs in antiseptic doctors’ offices, under all sorts of guises other than…

Dumpster art a benefit of Friends’ grants

That Durango nurtures unique creative ventures is another testament to the vibrancy of our community. For several years, the Dumpster…

Right to Die

Farsighted Oregon measure worthy of adoption in other states

The Great Sewer Plant Saga

Tie a string around your finger

It doesn’t take a huge amount of effort to say a kind word to that senior citizen you encounter in…

Developers should also pay for roads

Now that the roads are in bad shape, the commissioners are probably going to let us vote on whether to…

Is the sewer plant missing capacity?

So now I read that the plant has a capacity of 2 million gallons per day. My question is why…

Golf course is a poor use for forest land

A friend told me that this was from a land trade made by the Forest Service. The bare mountainsides were…

Now is the time to move the sewer plant

The first city system was built in 1958 and was replaced with the existing facility in 1985. There was a…

Why even consider a new sewer plant?

To my recollection, the sewer plant odor was not offensive until recently. The past three or four years. About the…

The United States created today’s Iran

Today, we have in place in Iran a fundamentalist Shiite theocracy that regards the West, and the United States specifically,…

Test drilling would have prevented spill

The uncontrolled breach of the plug instantaneously released thousands of gallons per minute of water and suspended solids. This venturi-like…

Fire assignment offered simple reminder

Sandra Shellnut Durango

DHS did well with wrestling coaches

They have amazing passion to help young people become better adults and use the sport of wrestling as the platform.…

More guns akin to more nukes

Steve Stahl Durango

Lobby the city to move the sewer plant

Santa Rita could really be an amazing community asset but it’s dominated by a stinking waste of precious acreage. Meanwhile,…

Water plan

your feedback on this complex document by the Sept. 17 deadline

Spill blame and solutions closer to home

An editorial in the Herald (Aug. 30) even included “Mother Nature” among the spill culprits. The EPA, Washington and even…

Sense of place more than just a ‘brand’

Even before the spill, tourists were expressing strong displeasure with the increase in panhandling transients. The Gold King Mine spill…

Mine spill sounds like plot for a novel

The EPA is working trying to establish a Superfund site in a small mountain mining town that has become a…