Opinion

America is experiencing a constitutional crisis

Musk/Trump’s extraordinary abuse of power attempting to unilaterally cut trillions from our budget is frightening. These actions not only ignore the fact these funds have been allocated by C...

Thanks to Life-Long Lecture Series, White for insightful presentations

With appreciation and gratitude, I would like to thank Dick White for his heartfelt presentation on “Climate Migration: A New Normal,” offered Jan. 16 through the Life-Long Lecture Series at...

Team Trump doesn’t care what color your cap is

Now that President Donald Trump is putting together his Cabinet and top administrators, it has become quite clear where his priorities lie. Having campaigned on “rescuing the middle class,” ...

Open letter to Jeff Hurd

Jeff Hurd, you ended up choosing the wrong time to go to Washington. That is, it will be the wrong time if you end up supporting the unethical, vindictive, retributive and cruel actions that...

Tax cuts revisited

A top priority for President Donald Trump is extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but despite all of the touting of this, it is worthwhile to revisit how this exactly plays out in real life....

9-R parents and taxpayers deserve transparency, neutrality and inclusion

The recent Durango 9-R School Board meeting revealed a troubling lack of transparency, disregard for parental rights and failure to maintain neutrality as the district faces declining enroll...

We can all do better

Thanks, once again, to Mike Sigman, for his mansplaining talent. This time he tries to teach us the science of sexual imprinting and the “needless exposure to abnormal sexual behavior at gra...

Board wrong about flags at Durango 9-R schools

There are only two flags that belong in a public school classroom in the state of Colorado: the American flag and the Colorado state flag. The board’s insistence on rewriting policy to call ...

Build it and they will come!

Way to go, Durango, Chapman Hill is drawing more visitors than ever! Except you probably can’t find parking. Overflow is pushed into the gun club or farther across the roundabout to the chur...

Flying the bird, a rhetorical question

As the gentleman was standing on the corner with his flag during Trump’s inauguration (Herald, Jan. 26), I was wondering if he realized why he was being given the middle finger by so many w...

Stop undocumented immigrant deportation

Undocumented immigrants have come to the United States to escape horrendous conditions that include violence, rape, extortion and kidnapping at levels that none of us in the United States ca...

We can’t lose bighorn sheep

It is so dismaying that the Weminuche bighorn population has dropped from 460 to 290 since 2011, especially when the target population is over 1,000 animals (Terry Meyers, Durango Herald, Ja...
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