The impacts are already dramatic in Alaska, but here in Colorado it’s happening, too. We are seeing a growing trend of reduced snowpack and we’ve just experienced yet another of…
In Colorado, we are contending with longer and more destructive wildfire seasons, reduced snowpack and increased incidence of respiratory disease. Research from the Union of Concerned Scientists and a climate…
Then, on Sept. 17, I watched the Denver Broncos game, and it was over after 9 p.m., and the Durango Herald had an article in the next day’s paper about…
State Supreme Court chooses to go along with the Legislature’s budgetary trickery
This comes from an organization that tells young, scared, pregnant girls that their child is “just a blob of tissue.” I have news, you can’t donate brains and hearts, lungs…
The federal plus state tax on gas 41 cents per gallon in Colorado versus 37 cents in Arizona. So where’s the justification on the 55 cent difference? When I read…
A vast majority of states have allowed full-strength beer and wine sales in grocery stores for years. And as the craft beer segment in general represents the largest share and…
Could it be that there really is a price-fixing cartel in Durango? Anthony R. Palmer Durango
If you want bicycle tourism, build trails with flow, berms, jumps, challenging rollers and technical features. The “Chapman flow trail” is a joke with brake-jacking corners (exactly Trails 2000’s style).…
Let’s be clear: I think we should remember people who lose their lives to the fallen and senselessly violent nature of human “kind.” I think we should mourn the loss…
The majority of those on the committee would not acknowledge the cause, ignored the long-term effects and offered no solution to the problem or any assistance to those affected. All…
I think it is long past time we all stand up and say “enough is enough” and put our support behind our law-enforcement people and do everything we can to…
And so it is with Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, and his ilk, and the Environmental Protection Agency. After they ensured a permanent underclass with deep cuts to maternal and infant…
Quite frankly, I’m more concerned about the rude river runners who trespass and then flip me off after they’ve used my land for a toilet, than the heavy metals in…
The Herald, and Durango, are lucky to have her. I make a point of finding her byline now, no matter what she’s covering. Kate Niles Durango Editor’s note: Chase Olivarius-McAllister…
Every fall, the pattern repeats itself. Anxiety escalates as students and parents follow the paucity theory of college admissions. That theory‘s premise: When a resource is scarce – the number…
Approximately 80 percent of the people in Colorado live on the Front Range between Fort Collins and Pueblo. Over the years they have depended on transcontinental diversions of West Slope…
Shame on the state and county for not forcing the Forest Service to comply with the regulations. The county would fine and or go in and control weeds on private…
Planned Parenthood may advertise on its website that it provides cancer screening, test for STDs, etc. but not all services are provided and not all services are free. In fact,…
On Sept. 6 it published an editorial supporting an organization, Planned Parenthood, that terminates the heartbeats of thousands of children. This organization that the Herald supports dismembers and sells the…
Sept. 17 was originally called Citizenship Day, and on our calendars is shown as Citizenship Day and Constitution Week begins. The DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., is a memorial…
Another arcane provision of TABOR to cost Colorado millions; vote ‘yes’ on BB
The trucks drive a steep hill on CR 120N that has a 9 percent grade. When large trucks and passenger cars share a hazardous road, these heavily loaded semis pose…
Obviously they have settled in the sediment where they will affect aquatic organisms, move further downstream and become magnified in the food chain. A truly meaningful study would look at…
