Opinion

Creative District supports discussion of Indigenous mascots

The Durango Creative District would like to take this opportunity to address our involvement with the “Community Conversation: Indigenous Mascots”…

December 29, 2021

Guest Columns

Winter solstice: For millennia, cultures have celebrated the return of the light

The passage tomb at Newgrange in Ireland may be the most impressive winter solstice monument on Earth. Constructed about 5,200…

December 27, 2021

Our View: 9-R Administration Building

decision about building’s use is critical

December 25, 2021

Indigenous mascots should be discussed openly

We are the Los Pinos Anti-Racism Project, a group of citizens from the Pine River Valley working to end racism…

December 25, 2021

Our View: Christmastime

and ugly have a role in highlighting the truth

December 24, 2021

Speak out against development of historic downtown building by DFPD

Durango Fire Protection District Chief Hal Doughty extolled the virtues of housing his main station, EMTs, Durango Police and 911…

December 24, 2021

Don’t attack our congresswoman

I wake up every day and thank God that we have Lauren Boebert as our 3rd Congressional District representative. She…

December 24, 2021

Our View: Mercury Payments building

Durango looks forward to how Jim Coleman will repurpose former office space

December 22, 2021

Give to those in need this season

It’s been another tough year. A year of digging in, choosing sides, back turning. A severe year. And it looks…

December 22, 2021

Our View: Pickleball

Players deserve their own courts, but may have to be patient

December 18, 2021

In COVID-19 fight, think like a Marine

The war goes on … It’s not a military war with guns, ships, planes and rockets. It’s a global war…

December 18, 2021

Opinion

Our View: Homeless camp

Plata County is looking in right direction for new site

Strategy designed to silence public

The Durango School District 9-R/Durango Fire Protection District contract for the 9-R Administration Building reserves to DFPD the right to…

Integrity, responsibility have gone missing

Mr. Orr (Herald, letters, Dec. 15) might consider doing research on the systematic weakening of our justice system in the…

How many more innocent people need to die?

Shame on those elected officials who refuse to act on gun violence! Sadly, the scenario is all too familiar: another…

Learn the facts about Trump

Tom Williamson (Journal, letters, Dec. 15) confirms true ignorance of the facts regarding Trump. Compare accomplishments between Biden and Trump.…

December 16, 2021

Our View: Managing the state budget

Governor’s request for funding could be beginning of long-overdue discussion

December 15, 2021

Our country does not need more guns

I remember the afternoon of April 20, 1999, quite well. School had been dismissed at Escalante Middle School, and I…

December 15, 2021

Story about city budget was not balanced

The first paragraph of the front-page story “Projects pack 2022 budget” (Herald, Dec. 8) rightly states that, after months of…

December 15, 2021

Thank you to staff, nurses, physicians at Mercy

Thank you staff, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians of Mercy Hospital! Durangoans for Improved Health Care – an…

December 13, 2021

A new idea for a convention center

Several years ago there were several articles in the Herald with proposals for building a Durango Convention Center – all…

December 13, 2021