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Porter-Norton for county commissioner

Marsha Porter-Norton is the perfect choice for La Plata County commissioner. I’ve known Marsha for over 20 years and found her to be an intelligent, dedicated and consummate professional. ...

Cory Gardner must act on climate bill

If we’ve learned anything from last year’s record-breaking hurricane season, the wildfires that have scorched our beloved West, recent extreme flooding events and record heat, it’s that we n...

Roadwork on Hwy 550 is self-defeating

I live north of downtown Durango and use Highway 550 on a regular basis for my commute to work in Hermosa. I must admit I am flabbergasted, bewildered and downright confused by the fact that...

Thanks for the snow and river graphs

Thank you to The Durango Herald for publishing both the San Juan Basin snow graph and the Animas River flow graph this spring. You met the interests of both the skiers and the raf...

EPA is committed to mine clean-up

As the new Region 8 Administrator, I want to provide the Environmental Protection Agency’s perspective on the Durango Herald’s article published July 10, 2019, “ EPA is committed to assessi...

Teachers: PERA owns prison shares

Teachers, including retirees, are you aware your retirement fund, Public Employees Retirement Association, is invested in the GEO Group, which manages 69 private prisons including the Aurora...

Call them ‘corporate profiteering plans’

After listening to the Democratic debates, it was clear the insurance and pharmaceutical industries were acting like fog machines at a rock concert, obscuring the truth and confusing the pub...

Somewhere, in a distant galaxy, a train...

Karen sits on the bench while her husband Jack takes their ticket numbers to the window. They have waited three years for their numbers to rise on the waiting list and now here they are, jus...

More than one factor started 416 Fire

Regarding “ My professor asked: “Does an acorn cause an oak?” After much discussion it was concluded that an acorn was necessary to yield an oak but it alone was not sufficient. ...

Hateful rhetoric is directed at president

Thank you so much, Gerry Fleming, for your Trump-hating rhetoric in the Durango Herald (“ It is certainly nice to know that you singularly have our complicated foreign policy all figured ou...

Two little words about your climate view

This is in reply to the July 8 letter to the editor by Gary Boyd, “ Dear Mr. Boyd: Good grief. Jim Newman Bayfield ...

Derangement Syndrome strikes again

Yet another local outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome can be found in Gerry Fleming’s letter “ While the Herald’s publishing of this letter certainly supports our First Amendment right, ...
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