Opinion

Real reform would go beyond Obamacare

In developed, industrial countries where health care is state sponsored, the legislature regulates the industry. The cost of pharmaceuticals and…

December 15, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Time is right for switching to solar power

This initiative is taking local renewable power seriously and is facilitating 100 new solar electric installations in the county. Here…

December 15, 2013

Editorials

NSA snooping

Opening salvo fired as judge says collecting phone records ‘likely unconstitutional’

December 15, 2013

Editorials

Free parking is welcome

Very early in the new year, parking rates will be increased. Along Main Avenue, and half a block on either…

December 15, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Obamacare opponents should explain hatred

One would think ACA must have some truly significant flaws that would motivate conservative members of Congress to try to…

December 15, 2013

Editorials

Antibiotics and livestock

is right to be more discerning in use

December 15, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Fair Deal must continue New Deal tradition

President Obama and Pope Francis have now each voiced their concerns about this issue. But, what can be done to…

December 15, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Schools should be donation-funded only

If all the people in 9-R who are still shocked about the failure of Amendment 66 were to give $5,000…

December 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Students fortunate 9-R has priorities straight

All I could think of as our children performed was the caption above. I am so glad that Snowberger and…

December 14, 2013

Editorials

Fort Lewis

Congress should approve federal funding for FLC’s Native American tuition waiver

December 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Herald’s priorities are misguided

Ambassadors and military have died with no investigation, IRS targets people based on politics, NSA spies on its own people,…

December 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Separate climate change facts from opinion

Jim Sims Durango

December 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Look outside the American education box

Firstly, according to The Economist on Dec. 7, 15-year-old students in the United States taking the Program for International Student…

December 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Obama continues to lie, bring down country

On Dec. 3, he stated that Obamacare was up and running. Another lie? Impeach him today. Fred Gale Durango

December 12, 2013

Editorials

Budget deal

proposal avoids brinkmanship and government shutdowns – for now

December 12, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Herald included no mention of Pearl Harbor

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed and essentially asked Congress to declare war against Japan. Unlike the gridlock of today, his…

December 10, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Republicans keep moving scale to new lows

First, they gut the Affordable Care Act, making it the watered-down law that it is by refusing the government option,…

December 10, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Climate change skeptics personally attacked

Rick VanWagenen personally attacked Mike Sigman (Letters, Herald, Nov. 15) with an accusation that Sigman’s facts are dreamed up. VanWagenen…

December 10, 2013

Opinion

Take CDOT transportation survey by Dec. 15

In 2014, there is the prospect of a ballot measure to ask the voters to raise the state sales tax…

December 10, 2013

Editorials

Connect Silverton

has been waiting far too long for adequate, high-speed Internet access

December 10, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Success of local GED graduates is gratifying

Reading about Anthony made me recall another GED grad, Tyler Whitt, who is now the owner of a water-management company,…

December 9, 2013

Letters to the Editor

Tanning story had dangerous misinformation

All of these statements are false. I feel that the average Durango reader (let’s assume an eighth-grade reading level) could…

December 9, 2013

Editorials

Open to the public

Colorado law makes clear that discrimination is forbidden

December 8, 2013

Letters to the Editor

River issue is not tubes, but enforcement

But using a paddle on a tube causes tubers to spin in circles and prevents effective navigation with a paddle.…

December 7, 2013