This team, said Friedman, can defeat President Trump. If these candidates don’t unite, wrote Friedman, “you can kiss the America you grew up in goodbye.” I don’t know what America…
Because of the coronavirus outbreak, climate change has taken a temporary backseat as a threat to society. The river loses nearly 10% of its annual flow for every increase in…
Injured humans were sent to a hospital for treatment, but what happened to the cows who survived this terrifying incident? It was probably back to business as usual. Most cows…
I had just been thinking that this coronavirus pandemonium and what’s happening throughout the world should be only a bad dream or a made-for-TV, B-grade movie. This just can’t be…
But the property owners openly offered their property to the city for a crossing and a riverside city park. This included three building sites and a few hundred feet of…
I followed the Herald’s coverage and attended one meeting, and as an avid bike commuter and Animas River Trail user, I support the current proposition. It seems like perhaps a…
Judging by the coverage he received in the Herald, he was highly regarded in the local biking community. I read his story on the front page of the Friday Herald…
After the citation, the court proceedings lasted about a year, from 2018 to 2019, with legal nothingness. The dog continued to bark. The court case was dismissed. The dog still…
New Face Productions was an enabler of that phenomenon at the end of February. In collaboration with Fort Lewis College Community Concert Hall, it brought Tim Robbins and The Actors…
Our experiences at three hospitals in Colorado are noteworthy. Most recently, my husband was a patient at Mercy twice in two weeks. From the first encounter with nurses and physicians…
MSNBC celebrity Chuck Todd went further, referring to Bernie’s entourage as a “brownshirt brigade” – like the violent mobs who supported Hitler. Chris Matthews of MSNBC imagined up Castro and…
Asking the board for a copy of the 2020 budget, I was given a summary budget with expenses of almost $24 million. When I asked for a detailed budget, the…
However, speaking with other acquaintances who identify as Christians, and reading statements put forth by evangelicals who also identify as Christian, listening to their dismissal of a livable wage, homelessness,…
I was looking forward to spending time with family in Durango and enjoying the outdoors, but I also hoped to learn something new. Once in Durango, I found the Gem…
We’ve paid thousands of dollars into it and it pays almost nothing out. Its customer service is abominable, and quite frankly, a person with Type 1 diabetes cannot live without…
Unfortunately, the article refers to Erika as “a mother of twins,” while describing her competitor as a Durango educational consultant. While Erika’s identity as a mother is relevant, it is…
Before I sat to write this letter to the editor, I decided I needed to become more informed; I attended one meeting with our mayor, Melissa Youssef, and have attended…
Teachers and students are why the district exists. Through the Herald, I know more about what students are learning at Animas High, Ignacio and Bayfield than at 9-R. Bayfield and…
I’m sorry the cafeteria employees felt the community’s upset was directed at them. It doesn’t seem to me that folks were angry at the kitchen staff, outside of the inappropriate…
He has been empowered by his impeachment acquittal to begin functioning as a dictator. He has destroyed our constitutionally mandated three coequal branches of government. He has breached the rule…
The case as presented was undeniable. The Republicans broke their oath to weigh the evidence objectively, and continually shifted their demands of proof higher and higher. Gardner goes on to…
Richard Riethmiller spouted disinformation on this crisis in his letter to the editor (“Climate nonsense dreamed up by profs,” Feb. 21) Ask Australians after their unprecedented wildfires if climate crisis…
With closures of coal fired power plants plus huge new wind and solar generation projects they’re on track to be 100% renewable by 2040. And the news just keeps getting…
The liars have lied so well, so completely and for so long that the lies are now just accepted dogma despite some of us, who feel like voices in the…
The Sun’s radiation warms the Earth. The Earth radiates away heat in the infrared. Equilibrium temperature is reached where incoming solar radiation, minus one third scattered back into space, balances…
You can save between $20 to $40 a month on your electric bill if you stop paying for shadow electricity. All you have to do is unplug (except for big…
Senator Susan Collins was sure there would be lessons learned by the president from his impeachment. Well he sure did. He immediately began ridding himself of all of these treasonous…
I’m asking these and all the other local businesses who share this smoking clientele to please take better care, and to help their tobacco-addicted customers dispose of their cigarette butts…
If it were up to me I would build the single overpass from behind City Market (old recycling area) to the hilltop at Third Street where the trail is under…
He,along with nearly every member of the Republican Senate, followed like lemmings to support the impeachment trial of President Trump, the most corrupt, president in American history. However, the House…
