Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Hunting deaths are not accidents but negligence

cca The recent death of a bowhunter in Dolores County is a travesty and was completely avoidable. One of the…

September 22, 2021

Op-Ed

It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies

It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote,…

September 22, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Parade homes need to be energy efficient

Over the past decades, natural disasters have increased in number and severity due to climate change. We need to reduce…

September 22, 2021

Editorials

Our View: A Texas bridge

the U.S. should pay more attention to this hemisphere

September 22, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Turn the hole into a parking garage

The city of Durango should buy the great hole on East Second Avenue across the street from Gazpacho Restaurant and…

September 22, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Revoke permits on giant hotels

Thank you so much for Nicholas Johnson’s Sept 17, reporting (Herald, “Where are the hotels?”) on the ugly, unsightly, enormous…

September 18, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Effort to save elder tree was commendable

I would like to commend everyone involved for their efforts in trying to save the elder cottonwood that, until this…

September 18, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Avenge cottonwood tree by driving less

I am a big fan of trees; they are beautiful, they are home to all kinds of animals, their biological…

September 18, 2021

Editorials

Our View: Simple Pleasures

In keeping to the theme of my previous thoughts about simple solutions, I began reflecting on simple pleasures. Back on…

September 18, 2021

Op-Ed

Bystander distress, moral injury affects children’s mental health

Laurie Roberts Counseling alone cannot address the current crisis in children’s mental health. I’ve provided psychotherapy to children and adolescents…

September 18, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Pregnancy not the same as COVID-19

In her letter comparing the Texas abortion bill to masks and vaccines (Sept. 8, “My body, my choice everywhere”), Rebecca…

September 18, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Neighbor not a fan of Tico Time’s noise

I know many of you have visited Tico Time. But before you decide to go again, I ask you to…

September 17, 2021

Editorials

Our View: Becoming native to Durango

When “Prairie Home Companion” broadcast from Fort Lewis College in 1998, the show included “The Lives of the Cowboys.” In…

September 17, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Chairlift better than an underpass

I’ve followed the upset over the removal of some beautiful, old trees to make way for the new underpass at…

September 17, 2021

Editorials

Our View: Foreign and domestic

rightly calls terrorists ‘children of the same foul spirit’

September 15, 2021

Op-Ed

The West is entering a new age of fire

Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere…

September 15, 2021

Letters to the Editor

The Bible for whose culture exactly

The Religion section of last weekend’s Durango Herald ran an article, rather uncritically, on the efforts of a Christian minister…

September 15, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Design around Grandmother Cottonwood tree

Thank you for creating a path connecting 32nd Street to Oxbow. The intended benefits are good, encouraging biking as transportation…

September 15, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Where is the anger over Jan. 6 insurrection?

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacked our country, destroying the Trade Towers and damaging the Pentagon. The result was our…

September 15, 2021

Letters to the Editor

Celebrate Constitution Week Sept. 17 to 23

Constitution Week is the commemoration of America’s most important document. It is celebrated annually during the week of Sept. 17…

September 11, 2021

Editorials

Our View: What Sept. 11 wrought

Twenty years ago, life changed for Americans, likely never to return. The immediate severity of the defensive responses to the…

September 11, 2021

Letters to the Editor

A note about our editorials

Dear Herald readers, In the coming weeks, the space traditionally devoted to the newspaper’s editorial will include commentary by three…

September 11, 2021

Letters to the Editor

A Sept. 11 experience to share

While I could share my own horror of watching the attacks on the World Trade Center as they happened, this…

September 11, 2021

Op-Ed

Here Comes the Autumn of Anxiety

In the heady days of spring, when the United States was vaccinating 3 million people a day, President Joe Biden…

September 11, 2021