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Opinion

Poll does not allow a vote for Hickenlooper

In the poll on the Herald’s website, which first appeared Jan. 5, readers were given a slate of Republicans and asked which one we would vote for. But the results included the name of the cu...

Water Front Range with a Missouri canal

State Sen. Ellen Roberts had a good idea: As part of a deal to pump Western Slope water to the Front Range cities, restrict the lawn area of residences in Denver et al. Let the people on the...

Front-page story on termination was insulting

I found the story about Patti O’Brien’s termination from DATO (Herald, Dec. 31) to be extremely insulting and unnecessary to print on the front page when you have no information about the ca...

Banning guns on campuses would add risk

In response to the story (Herald, Jan. 3) on the campaign against having concealed weapons on college campuses, it does not make logical sense. If concealed guns are not allowed on campus, t...

Debunking bogus claims on climate change

In their letters to the editor (Herald, Jan. 3) Robert Goodrich and George Thompson repeat misinformation and disinformation. Despite their bogus claims, science is science, and facts are fa...

Two-for-one nuggets of misinformation

To start the New Year, we have letters to the editor from Robert Goodrich and George Thompson (Herald, Jan. 3) spewing their anti-intellectual view of climate change. No possibility of corre...

Honesty, integrity saved grandmother’s gems

While Christmas shopping, I lost a necklace that had apparently fallen out of my purse as I was making a purchase somewhere. I retraced my steps, made many phone calls to various merchants a...

God’s laws supersede conflicts with Bible

The Durango Herald’s editorial (Dec. 10) about Colorado’s public discrimination law article covering a Denver baker, Jack Phillips, failed to mention the most serious discrimination possible...

Report the whole story on drug overdoses

The Durango Herald (Dec. 31) reported again that Eric T. Zwart and another person died from an overdose of heroin. It should have reported residents of Durango are dying from heroin being so...

Editorial board lacks economy skills

Last year, The Durango Herald editorial board heaped praise on the auto-industry bailout that started during the last few months of the Bush administration and was greatly expanded by the Ob...

Legislature should stay away from lawns

The details of the state Senate proposal to limit (residential?) lawn size to 15 percent of the size of the lot don’t seem to be available yet. But, I hope senators remember lawns do serve u...

City should explain single-stream recycling

Would it be possible for the city to provide an update regarding the single-stream recycling program? Specifically, how many cans have been distributed among city residents? How ...
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