Net neutrality may not be around for much longer, though, if the telecom industry and its lapdogs in Congress get their way. The rules that protect us from abusive practices…
As LPEA’s representative on the TriState Board, he voted to not recommend LPEA’s request for an additional 5 percent of locally generated power. This occurred in spite of the fact…
Holiday arrives in time of uncertainties over healthcare, housing, immigration
This letter started as a note of sincere gratitude to the 911 operator who helped my sister though initial CPR, the EMTs of the Upper Pine Fire District and the…
We need an informed citizenry to be able to help our leaders devise a better health care system. An open and extensive discussion in Congress, with input from providers, industries…
This May 23, 2016, photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. The re-evaluation of the new Bears Ears National…
I have seen little or none of this happening at all for years. By all means, city council, keep spending all of your time on the people visiting Durango without…
In a town, more readers know the writer, so it is much more effective. The writer has an opportunity to voice his or her feelings about a subject. Equally important,…
Our LPEA board unanimously approved an initiative to raise the contractual 5 percent limit on locally-produced renewable energy imposed by our coal-energy provider, Tri-State. Yet LPEA’s Tri-State representative, Kohler McInnis,…
The Herald is demanding all of us common folk to demand responsible and civil behavior from our elected officials, and we need to model that behavior in our own political…
They have been in and out of dumpsters with cubs waiting expectantly alongside on their haunches for the results. Their favorite is the city’s plastic residential trash container, placed out…
As a lifelong cyclist, I was skeptical about the new bike lanes, grumbling about painted lines as window dressing just to get a bike friendly designation. Man, was I wrong.…
I have not seen any rewriting of history, but rather the maturing views and values of our country. We state the Civil War generals’ actions as we did 100 years…
Recent federal law has opened the county to Denver coverage, but providers are hesitant in the current situation. An alternative that Albuquerque stations should investigate is to increase their coverage…
Our schools can put more emphasis on the lifetime sports most often introduced during school years. However, the Durango School District 9-R’s emphasis and majority of funding is not on…
A unique partnership between the library and Town of Bayfield was formed in 2015 to get feedback from the community and study the feasibility of using the library’s lot to…
(I am sorely tempted to say asinine, but, caution prevailing, will bite my tongue and settle for self-defeating). Gwen Lachelt may perhaps be excused for the considerable insensitivity and tone-deafness…
Did you know that Cortez is named after a genocidal, privileged man who slaughtered thousands of indigenous people and stole all their wealth? Did you know the conquistadors enslaved and/or…
Why are we allowed to say things about Jews that we are not allowed to say about any other race or religion? Why do we hold Jews to standards that…
Not-for-profit arts and cultural organizations are big business. Twenty-six local organizations participating in the study were directly responsible for $18 million in local expenditures in 2015. Split between direct organizational…
We live 20 miles outside of town and the logistics of getting her home and back to town to recover the car were difficult. It turns out the reason for…
As an organization that works toward the prevention of homelessness by providing a continuum of housing, integrated health care and services to improve the well-being and stability of our clients,…
If money is a problem — like if other countries stop lending to us — we can eliminate some of our nuclear weapons to the extent we don’t compromise national…
