Opinion

Durango can help make our Earth cleaner

The North Pacific garbage gyre is not a myth. Research into plastic in the gyre appears in peer-reviewed scientific publications…

June 17, 2013

U.S. should restrict the influence of Islam

Because Islam appears bent on destroying our (the West’s) constitutional system and its attendant liberties, we should not extend to…

Gun laws enacted without public support

In response to Jim Fuge’s letter (Herald, May 24), the majority of Coloradoans attending the Senate hearings at the State…

Regulatory foot-dragging

administration must step up pace of rule reviews

Security’s ends justify means

I’m more concerned that information gained is shared and acted upon. I send no messages for which I’d be embarrassed…

ADU proposal, impacts need consideration

The ADU proposal should be carefully considered with regards to the benefits and adverse consequences of implementation. Any goals should…

With chicken, you get what you pay for

We have done it for years, using dual–purpose, heritage breeds that mature more slowly but without stress, provide great eggs…

Take a broader view of police encounter

I took personal offense to the letter titled “Residents have right to personal privacy,” (Herald, June 8). It is a…

Washington wrongdoing a bipartisan affair

Congress has abdicated its responsibility over the decades to the point that it is irrelevant. Witness the contempt that the…

City records

Collecting reasonable fees for public-records requests is only fair

Patenting genes

Supreme Court limits the ability to claim ownership of products of nature

Killing sprees should prompt policy change

Leigh Nielsen Durango

A different kind of election is coming

Members come together in an atmosphere of reverence and spiritual contemplation to vote for the individuals they consider best equipped…

Young people being harassed at skate park

These men are drunk, belligerent and spend the day down the slope from the skate park next to the river…

IRS controversies are nonevents

Let’s do that: $50 million in three years is about $17 million a year. The amount spent annually during those…

Support stores so generous to area youths

Generally, the students who go to NOLS from our school are not thick with money, yet these courses are steep…

Sexual assault

leaders and the military’s top brass wrong to keep fox guarding the henhouse

River seekers should respect private property

Either they can’t read or they believe that the message doesn’t apply to them. Either way, it truly upsets me.…

Close call with cyclists a reminder to drivers

I know all the Ride the Rockies cyclists riding two and three abreast made the driver angry. Living on East…

Durango police need community guidance

I feel they harass people accidentally speeding a few miles more than the limit or in a poorly marked school…

Big Brother

recent revelations about phone data, Americans now know their privacy is gone

June 9, 2013