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Endorsements: For school board, Herald chooses experience
The race for Durango school board
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Letters to the Editor
Hey, you big spenders: Hands off TABOR
Proposition CC would do away with the TABOR safeguards. It could turn us into another California, where spending evidently has no limits and deficits are huge. Proposition CC has warm…
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Water users benefit from Proposition DD
The tax would be used for administration and gambling addiction services, but most would be used for water projects included in the Colorado Water Plan. I have been involved in…
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Please take reusable bags to the store
The visible trash and invisible micro-plastics are a detriment to the health of all the planet’s inhabitants. This isn’t a partisan issue – it’s a multicultural and worldwide problem that…
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Fight climate change, stop reproducing
A carbon-footprint study of people in the wealthier nations of North America, Europe and Japan concluded that having one less child would reduce carbon emissions 20.2 times as much as…
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Don’t let Legislature fool you on Prop CC
Don’t be tricked into believing the initial language, “without raising taxes …” Proposition CC is a tax increase, forever. Coloradans will no longer receive rebates of their hard-earned money if…
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My humps, my humps, my lovely speeders’ bumps
As Westport became more popular among weekenders from New York City and New Jersey, it became harder to control reckless driver speeds on those narrow, winding roads. So, speed humps…
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Durango: Bring back marvelous parades
This last parade clocked in at 12 minutes. The two before, Fiesta Days and the 4th of July, were less than 15 minutes. I am sure local restaurants would be…
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Endorsements: Propositions DD is easy. CC is a little harder.
One proposition on your ballot takes a little thought; the other, not so much
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This park is a disaster waiting to happen
There was traffic buzzing by at 50 mph and this park has absolutely no traffic barriers anywhere near the children’s play area! None. If just one person was distracted or…
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This whole homeless camp is ludicrous
This is ridiculous! It will be trashed and nasty in less than a month. And a homeless camp? Really? The idea of this is ludicrous! Why not improve the already…
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What if we’re pouring time and money into the wrong solutions?
‘Homelessness’ may be worsening because we think it’s all about homes
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Partisan Herald wants to negate votes
“Appearing to seek”? The president should be impeached not because he did something (show us in the transcript where), but because he “appeared” to do something? How anti-American is that?…
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Letters: President is a communist sympathizer
It’s OK for the president to vilify progressive Democratic presidential candidates as filthy socialists, but hobnob with leaders from the two most repressive Communist governments in the world? If this…
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Base fluoride policy on science, please
His reasoning is couched in a false understanding of real science and reflects the ideology and misrepresentation of fluoride science by a conspiracy group called the Fluoride Action Network. This…
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This is no time to bring more wolves
In May this year, a story coming out of Banff concerning a wolf attack on a vacationing family should give Coloradans pause when considering voting to reintroduce the wolf into…
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Our view: Proposed city budget raises questions
Did you hear about the study performed by consultants hired by staffers that found the staffers were overpaid? Neither did we – because such a thing has never happened, we…
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Open carry was not ‘well regulated’
Even in the “Old West,” towns had rules to check your guns and not to open carry. There were, and are, reasons for this. No. 1 is fear. Those choosing…
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Democrats want to take your freedoms
Their “catastrophic climate change” statements were deceiving, lying and fear-mongering. They stated that hurricanes, because of Dorian (stalled by a high pressure system), are increasing both in numbers and intensity,…
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Instruction in reading must continue
It is disappointing to learn that it was necessary that a revised law, including accountability measures, was required to ensure compliance with the Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act.…
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Guns make us safer and we have proof
Since 2015, residents of Maine have been allowed to carry a firearm without any special permit, no background checks. No doubt a dangerous precedent. Maine had the audacity, despite the…
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Envision print as superior in some ways
Contrast the defeatist attitude of its Sept. 30 print editorial regarding its elimination of the Monday printed edition of the paper with, say, the upbeat attitude of Maria’s Bookshop. While…
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Democrats can and must hold this president accountable now
In launching impeachment inquiry, House members take necessary step
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Cancel? I’m extending my subscription
The Durango Herald is successfully evolving to digital-first reporting. Subscribers will still read a newspaper three days a week and see online local news and opinion from Herald journalists. A…
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State broadcasters do want to serve you
I am the president and CEO of the Colorado Broadcasters Association. The truth is that Colorado broadcasters are working to serve La Plata and Montezuma county residents with local, in-state…
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How does Mercy expect to pull this off?
It’s lofty, but what I can’t understand is how Mercy will benefit from that in this growing community by cutting staff, including specialists in pulmonary, cardiac, GI and other vital…
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I want Colorado public TV in Durango
Public television is supported by donations from its listeners and not by commercial advertisements. Nielsen is a holding company whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Although…
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Here is a golden chance to build the world on four paws. Well, eight paws.
Rescuing feral cats may seem like a small thing, but it is not, by a long shot
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Coram should not receive safety award
It was extremely difficult for me to read about Coram receiving this award. I question his sincerity and commitment in truly wanting to keep our youth safe as this is…
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Trump’s the hardest-working president
Congress gets paid good money to work on legislation like new immigration laws and additional background checks on gun purchases, just to mention a few issues it’s ignored. Democrats have…