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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...

The cruelty at the core of Trumpism

“Despot; tyrant – person who holds absolute power, typically in a cruel or oppressive way.” (Wikipedia) This definition encapsulates Mr. Trump’s goals. To him, working for the “good of the p...

We’re all paying for Trump’s corruption

While 17 million Americans lose their health care because of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and Republicans killing ACA tax credits, Trump and his family are getting filthy rich. Trump imposes...

Colorado’s rural teachers deserve a fair chance

I am writing as a father, law enforcement veteran and unaffiliated candidate for governor of Colorado. In towns across rural Colorado, schools aren’t just buildings they are the heart of the...

Protect Durango’s clear, crystalline air

This evening, stepping outside and smelling the crystal Durango air with its sweet scent of snow, I was so grateful to be living in this beautiful valley. But I was also saddened ... somewha...
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