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Remove moratorium, start community conversation

I’m writing to urge the community to let the conversation begin around battery storage systems. Batteries are part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that can enable energy autonomy, low...

Fracking pollution demands just transition

Colorado faces a difficult choice: transition off fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy or continue to jeopardize our environment and health. But transition inevitably comes with econo...

Dialogue now for post-Trump era

In the current oppressive political climate, we infrequently engage in constructive dialogue across bubbles, with people who disagree with us sharply. I had just such an experience last week...

Rejecting the single story of Somalis

When President Trump labeled Somali immigrants “garbage,” he weaponized presidential power to diminish an entire community. As novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned in her TED Talk “The D...

Bah humbug on craft fair crackdown

Durango’s recent effort to enforce business licensing and sales-tax collection at small Christmas craft fairs is a mistake, both practically and culturally. These events are not commercial o...

No one is coming to rescue us

In Joyce Vance’s new book, “Giving Up Is Unforgivable,” her information on Finland’s media literacy projects really reached out and grabbed my attention (see page 144 plus end notes). By emp...

The Sun covers all Colorado news

I have good news for John Rankin (Letters, Herald, Dec. 5), who is concerned that losing local delivery of the print edition of the Sunday Denver Post further estranges Durango from our stat...

Members deserve answers about BESS

As an LPEA member-owner, I’m concerned about the proposed Battery Energy Storage System project the co-op is pursuing. Before moving forward, members deserve considerably more transparency a...

A question about Herald border coverage

Searching through back issues of the Herald is not easy. I was looking for the paper’s coverage from 1/20/21 through 12/31/24 of what I consider the Biden/Harris open-borders policy, and I s...

Patients deserve better than this

With abdominal pain and rectal bleeding, my friend went to the Cortez ER. She was sent home. Still in pain, she went to the Mercy ER the next day. She had such a large intestinal blockage th...

No parking garage? No Next Step!

As a Durango resident for 51 years – someone who has worked on or near Main Avenue for most of those 50 years and lived on East Third and East Fifth avenues for 25 of them – I have seen enou...

Honoring Bayfield veterans this holiday season

For three years, veterans buried at Bayfield Cemetery have not been honored during the holidays as they are in other local cemeteries. I have taken on the National Wreaths Across America dut...
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