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Opinion

People who own guns kill lots of people

With all due respect to Ron Cornelius (Letters, Herald, Jan. 21), I must take the contrasting point of view. The Herald does have a responsibility to its readers to make known the extent of ...

Magazine lists interesting fracking facts

I read some interesting numbers in my YES! winter 2014 magazine, Page 16. “Earthquakes recorded in Youngstown, Ohio, from 1776 to 2010: 0 Earthquakes recorded. In 2011, after a nearby well p...

Ellen Roberts deserves pat on the back

Our great state is about to be embroiled in some serious political discussions with a statewide election season about to descend on us. Before we are all enmeshed in those discussions, I jus...

Private campground operators should lose

Dennis Pierce’s letter to the editor (Herald, Jan. 28) appears to be a very public interview in his quest to become the snark straight man for the national annoyance known as the conservativ...

Tipton stonewalls SNAP data requests

Four times over the last four months I have asked the office of Rep. Scott Tipton to point me to the data that he relied on to vote to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the ne...

Traffic light could free cops to fight crime

When visiting Durango, my friend who drove got a ticket on East Third Avenue for not coming to a full stop at a stop sign. I understand from our local host that this particular corner is not...

Fiedler did so much for Durango, Snowdown

A big thank you to Linda Mannix for her touching reminder of Terry Fiedler and the early days of Snowdown (Herald, Jan. 26). My husband, Blake, and I moved to Durango 26 years ago. It was a ...

Let’s seek to end our culture’s mass violence

On Jan. 18, the first leg of “60 Minutes” focused on the root cause of mass violence perpetuated by mentally disturbed people. In short, our culture is numb to the drastic inadequacies in ou...

Worst airline should be booted from Durango

This needs to be said: United Airlines has to be the worst airline in the United States. It cannot be counted on to get you anywhere on time, and the unexplained canceled flights are unendur...

Expand airport for safety, not coffee

I am an international traveler and frequent the Durango-La Plata County Airport every other month. To me, it’s about airport safety, not that I can get a gourmet coffee. Shortly after the ne...

Herald error on rockslide was egregious

I read the paper for information. I read the paper for pleasure, and I sometimes read the paper for content and errors to help keep my mind sharp. While I almost never write about errors, th...

Wanderer glad to be back in S.W. Colorado

I left Durango for Telluride in July 2011, and then I left Telluride in November 2012 for a corporate job in New York state. Let’s just say a year away from the San Juans was enough. While i...
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