Over the past decades, natural disasters have increased in number and severity due to climate change. We need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the burning of…
The city of Durango should buy the great hole on East Second Avenue across the street from Gazpacho Restaurant and build the long talked about parking garage. Four or five…
Thank you so much for Nicholas Johnson’s Sept 17, reporting (Herald, “Where are the hotels?”) on the ugly, unsightly, enormous hole in the ground across the street from Gazpacho’s restaurant.…
I would like to commend everyone involved for their efforts in trying to save the elder cottonwood that, until this morning, stood regally along 32nd Street. As Julia Butterfly Hill…
I am a big fan of trees; they are beautiful, they are home to all kinds of animals, their biological processes are mind blowing and they take in carbon dioxide…
In her letter comparing the Texas abortion bill to masks and vaccines (Sept. 8, “My body, my choice everywhere”), Rebecca York appears to be willfully ignorant. Whether or not she…
I know many of you have visited Tico Time. But before you decide to go again, I ask you to consider the effect it has on the residents of the…
I’ve followed the upset over the removal of some beautiful, old trees to make way for the new underpass at 32nd Street. It’s a shame to remove those trees. But…
The Religion section of last weekend’s Durango Herald ran an article, rather uncritically, on the efforts of a Christian minister of mixed Ojibwa-Yaqui heritage, aiming to produce a new English…
Thank you for creating a path connecting 32nd Street to Oxbow. The intended benefits are good, encouraging biking as transportation and inviting engagement with the riparian corridor. I also witness…
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacked our country, destroying the Trade Towers and damaging the Pentagon. The result was our country declaring a war on terror and bombing and invading…
Constitution Week is the commemoration of America’s most important document. It is celebrated annually during the week of Sept. 17 to 23 to commemorate Sept. 27, 1787, the date on…
Dear Herald readers, In the coming weeks, the space traditionally devoted to the newspaper’s editorial will include commentary by three Durangoans who will bring a wide breadth of interests and…
While I could share my own horror of watching the attacks on the World Trade Center as they happened, this is about a friend of mine, Bill, one of New…
When the Sept. 11 attack occurred, I was checking out of a hotel in Dallas. On the lobby TV, I saw the first plane hit the Twin Towers, and a…
I was a paper boy for The Durango Herald in the late ’60s by the Sacred Heart church, and recall the sales training we received evenings with Bob, I believe…
The search to find a more suitable location for the homeless has gone on long enough. There is a great location, close to town, with plenty of room for all…
The return of the Four Corners Folk Festival in Pagosa Springs was a triumph. Vaccinated festival fans, staff and volunteers felt more at ease and relaxed than they had in…
To be clear: I am pro-choice. I fully believe every human has full sovereignty over their body, health and choices. But I find it absurdly hilarious and morbidly ironic that…
This ditty was circulating around business circles a number of decades ago. One might see some relevance to today. Outgoing and incoming CEOs of a rather large company were having…
A week from today will be the 20th anniversary of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the United States by al-Qaida. Share your memories and reflections on how Sept. 11…
I’d like to congratulate Durango Hockey for hiring Alain Lemieux to coach our young hockey players. Alain is a former professional hockey player and brother of Mario Lemieux. This is…
It used to be we were all taught history with rose-colored glasses. We were only told about the best traits of the U.S. Founding Fathers. Now, we’ve gone to the…
A recent news story cited efforts of the Durango Police Department to combat bicycle theft by using so-called “bait bikes.” These bikes are left unlocked and outfitted with a GPS…
I thank the sports editor for the recognition of of Christopher Blevins’ world championship win in the short track race at the UCI World Mountain Bike Championships in Val di…
I grew up and learned to cook with a gas stovetop. When I later encountered an electric one I rejected the inherent time-lag. It never occurred to me that I…
Thirteen courageous, dedicated service members were killed in Afghanistan and more than a hundred Afghan civilians, many of them women and children, were killed last week and not one word…
There is a crisis in affordable housing that we all agree on. There are numerous unhoused, homeless, mentally ill people and addicts in our communities. No matter of all combined…
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. This is a time for each of us to reach out to those around us and take steps to prevent suicide. The American…
Mark Pearson outlined state and regional actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the fossil fuel sector (Aug. 21, “Opportunities abound for engagement on climate change”). It is encouraging to…
