Why would rural Delta County say no to a solar farm that would enrich the county by $13 million over 15 years, at about the same time neighboring Montrose County said…
Getting language right in covering immigrant community
The Southern Utes and Ute Mountain Utes are the only two federally recognized tribes in Colorado. Tribal members have been working with us in the General Assembly this year to…
Door-to-door campaigns of this sort are an affront to democracy
I worked in reproductive health care as a registered nurse in abortion care for approximately six-plus years. I took care of Texas women during the COVID-19 pandemic who were seeking…
Durango School District 9-R released the plans to rebuild Miller Middle School. The bond language said they were going to rebuild Miller to address the educational needs of the students.…
Well, I want to thank all the journalists who brought to light the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas was at the Jan. 6 attack on the…
Seven Western states and their leaders – all depending on water from the Colorado River – remain divided. Roerinkcca Split into basins by an imaginary border at Lees Ferry, Arizona,…
Party’s ideas for making Colorado more affordable have merit
City leaders are asking citizens to reimagine a new and improved downtown. Soon the council will give its nod to one of four conceptual designs all with the common denominator…
Thank you, Bob Gramera, for standing up for President Trump (letter, March 12). Hypocrisy is apparently the mantra for politics in Colorado. Fact: Our borders need closed. Open borders put…
Medicare was enacted in 1965 after a fierce fight with doctors and the health industry. The same fears of socialized medicine and rationed care were shouted in 1965 as they…
Colorado has a history of taking the lead in shaping this country’s trajectory. This year, we have an opportunity to write another chapter in our proud, storied history by protecting…
Wednesday’s commentary by Mark Squillace and his interpretation of “navigable rivers” for fishermen sounds like an excerpt from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s playbook of misinformation! He suggests that fishermen should…
Nearly two weeks have gone by where if there were referees overlooking the two sides fighting in Ukraine, Putin has the advantage by waving nuclear war in our face, with…
Our representative, Lauren Boebert, has become nothing more than a piddly heckler and a pusher of nonsensical conspiracies and lies. Not only is she an embarrassment to Colorado’s 3rd Congressional…
Yellowstone National Park turns 150 years old this month – a milestone truly worth celebrating. Wilkinsoncca When Westerners think of Yellowstone, probably what comes to mind are its grizzlies, exploding…
Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene showed themselves to be not worthy of the positions they hold in our national government on Tuesday night, when they heckled President Biden as…
Readers respond to Durangoans’ quotes on Ukraine, Putin and more
After reading the March 4 paper about the “opinions” of three women living in Durango (but formerly from Russia or Ukraine), I wondered why The Durango Herald chose to print…
Recent intelligence indicates that if Russian President Vladimir Putin elects to attack the U.S. he is most likely to use a nuclear high-altitude EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) weapon. These weapons, exploded…
cca We figured it was about time to formally introduce The Durango Herald and The Journal cartoonist Wes Rowell, who has been illustrating cartoons with us since October. He’s worked…
Powerhouse’s Facebook shutdown raises question: Who do you trust?
My daughter recently encountered a disturbing issue at her place of employment that I did not know was out there. Jim Crosscca She is the vice president of people operations…
Since its reconstruction in the 1990s, I’ve considered the so-called Swinging Bridge a perfect metaphor for the changes in Durango. Into the 1970s, the Swinging Bridge fairly bucked. It could…
Andrew Zeiler’s letter to the editor (Feb. 26) needs some clarification. The current exorbitant inflation was caused by flooding the market with cash in a shorter period than suppliers we’re…
The City Council has hired a consulting firm to come up with a new plan for Main Avenue. They came up with four choices, all with common features: Traffic on…
Regarding this push to bring Ascent Classical Academy to Durango, if one digs a little deeper, ACA seems to be a religious school trying to use language that does not…
I could not help but write after reading “As Durango grows and becomes more expensive, is its culture changing?” (Herald, Feb. 26). Perhaps it’s not the culture but the elitist…
Eighty-year-old Roger Hill used to go fishing on the Arkansas River in Colorado. But he sometimes had to duck baseball-size rocks thrown at him by landowners who insisted he was…
