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Opinion

Democracy needs facts, free speech

I was saddened as I read the recent letter from J. Paul Brown, who was a legislator at one point. Perhaps Mr. Brown doesn’t know the difference between citizens sharing their points of view ...

High school student survey too invasive

This week my child completed the Durango Healthy Kids Survey. This survey asked many very personal questions around subjects such as sexual activity, drug and alcohol use, safety at home and...

Everyone deserves chance to be heard

The La Plata County Board of County Commissioners must improve the process in which residents for whom English is not a first language can provide input on how $10.9 million of federal COVID...

Replace mascot with beautiful art

With Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving this month of November, outside of taking action yesterday, now is the time to finally remove the grotesque statue outside of the Toh-Ati...

The misguided war on critical race theory

Critical race theory, a once-obscure academic concept, has recently emerged as a source of contentious debate. Unfortunately, the term is misused and profoundly misunderstood. The right-wing...

Wild horses are truly wild, and native

Scott Beckstead’s rebuttal (“Americans will always revere wild horses,” Herald, Nov. 3) of Andrew Gulliford’s earlier misinformed screed against wild horses makes some important points about...

Unite to pass climate legislation

Dick White states that “(u)nity is crucial in fight against deadly threats of extreme heat, cold, storms” (Herald, Oct. 29). I wholeheartedly agree. We must unite in taking the necessary ac...

Marginalized populations need support in Bayfield

I am writing to encourage the Bayfield School District to include books that represent LGBTQ themes and other marginalized populations into free reading classroom libraries, at all schools a...

Espero Apartments a good start

Hurray for Housing Solutions. Opening the Espero Apartments won’t solve all the problems of affordable housing in Durango, but it shows that when people work together, solutions are possible...

Centura a far cry from Sisters of Mercy

Thank you, Melissa Youssef and colleagues, for initiating a petition to improve health care in Durango at Centura Medical Center. I have, in fact, stopped referring to our regional hospital...

Southwest Colorado has good air quality

Front-page headline in the Herald on Oct. 22: “Durango experienced 62 elevated ozone days in 2020.” When I read that headline, I’m like wow, that sounds really bad. After reading through th...

Stolen flags, banner will be replaced

As the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, I was deeply disappointed and saddened the third time in the last month, when our church signage was vandalized. The fir...
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