The ribbon of snow I skied did not just appear from nowhere. It takes a lot of money for electricity to run for the pumps to push the millions of…
Higher facility fee income to airports won’t be enough to fully pay for airport upgrades but it will help. Have any of our county officials looked for other ways to…
“Tonight’s results are clear – the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. I hope Senator-elect Doug Jones will do the right thing and…
If you have ever wondered if all the talk about Christianity is true – or wondered why, after 2,000 years, people are still willing to die rather than renounce the…
A pipe dream? It doesn’t have to be. According to T.R. Reid in The Healing of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Switzerland and Germany are among the many…
While I strongly agree with your view that brute-strength partisanship is no way to govern our nation, I can’t help but wonder where your collective editorial voice was when the…
It’s still left-wing drivel, but at least it’s local. Dennis Pierce Durango
Pulling for Roy Moore, whitewashing the president’s nonsense, defending the confederacy… seriously? You are killin’ it, big guy! Hitting it right out of the park! This isn’t hypocrisy. I’ll give…
On Nov. 10, during a Friday-afternoon walk south on historic Main Avenue in Durango, I encountered four aftershave cologne clouds. One guy’s “man perfume” I could actually taste. Time to…
I have made an effort to learn about the place I call “home” – the State of Colorado – which includes reading state history and learning how issues have been…
But what I could not believe was the part about a lawsuit against a store by a person who tripped over a little water dish in the store. The person…
Recently, I was threatened by a homeless man with a club while walking my dog yards from my front door. I came home the other night to my significant other…
Resignation is the least you can do. Prosecution is the best we can do … and we will. What did you expect to gain from making sexual advances on a…
The wonderment of your being Your active little bodies Not once stopping for a rest Your squeals and cries and laughter The sparkle in your eyes Your banging on each…
I’ve tried to stay out of the controversy of homelessness in Durango because I’ve been without resources or a dollar or a roof or a meal. But when I can…
This board was responsible for the recent editorial criticizing County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt (Herald, Nov. 19). I am curious. Did the industry representative recuse herself from all discussion and writing…
If we are overestimating production, as the MIT study suggests, now would be the ideal time to invest in renewable sources of energy. Solar and wind have technical challenges, but…
Most recently, he’s taken steps to drastically reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah: Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears. Talk of shrinking national monuments strikes home across the…
Our issues were varied: taxes, education, the economy, the environment, immigrants, the Dreamers, etc. We supported certain candidates based on their views of the issues that resounded most deeply with…
His account of Fort Lewis’ involvement in the so called “Ute War” contained twisted facts and much misinformation – “fake history” as it were. His goal was to make a…
What I witnessed and heard were good comments on both sides of the issue by several well-informed individuals. Those that want to see the stricter energy code adopted reminded us…
For example: The Walton family of Walmart is reported to be worth $130 billion. The Republican’s Christmas gift tax bill includes the removal of the inheritance tax. A good thing,…
Over 99 percent of public comments were opposed to Interior Secretary Zinke’s monuments review. Over 90 percent of Utahns themselves who commented were opposed to monument status changes. Democracy has…
It’s guaranteed because quagga mussels can cover any surface – beach, docks, boats – at 55,000 mussels per square meter as at Lake Mead. City council says “compromise” on the…
A lack of fiscal responsibility – this bill will add more than $1 trillion (or millions of millions) to the federal deficit. Our children and grandchildren should not have to…
Both went to Washington, D.C., to represent county positions: Blake regarding the Bonita Peak Superfund Site (with airfare paid by Trout Unlimited) and Lachelt regarding the BLM Methane Rule (airfare…
This model is supported by the current National Geographic survey of where people are happiest: Denmark, Singapore and Costa Rica. The conclusion of this survey is happiness is the result…
du1-i-syn I attended and discussed the archaic city water policies with the mayor. He made some notes, took down my contact information and I never heard from him. Follow up…
du1-i-syn Simultaneous rallies will be taking place all across Colorado (and the world) to show support for the 2012 United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for improved health systems. I…
Time is running out before the end of the legislative session. If Congress leaves without firm protections for Dreamers in place, almost 790,000 more people will spend the holidays under…
