It is important that we create fair congressional districts, not ones drawn by partisan politics. However, I have deep concerns that the current redistricting proposal has been conducted by power…
Call me silly , but the Durango Herald has been a primary source of news for me for those 30-plus years, not just local, but state, national and even international…
Corporations, Republicans and forced birthers are deadbeat parents that undernourish 22 percent to 36 percent of America’s born children and create barriers to education. This is a plan for programmed…
Although I do not believe in organized religion because of the centuries of wars it produced – still produces – I pray under God and other loving forces to create…
For years, Stapleton has obscured the truth about Colorado’s best investment, PERA. PERA provides state troopers, snowplow drivers, teachers and other public workers a secure retirement through a defined benefit…
Then there is, “If you’re not a Democrat when you’re young you have no heart, and if you’re not a Republican when you’re old you have no brain.” Today, it…
I’m registered affiliated only so I can vote in primaries. In general elections, I’m independent. If I support women’s right to choose, free birth control for the poor, death with…
It turns out the Republican debates and candidate antics are far funnier than he ever was! Tea partiers have finally found their man in their endless search for “the biggest…
1) Gun ownership is a right, driving is a privilege: Conflating the two makes an interesting argument, however, if you needed a learner’s permit to own a gun, which is…
Denis Castro’s letter (Herald, Dec. 29) employed this intellectually dishonest tactic attempting to blur the message of an op-ed piece about the epidemic levels of U.S. gun violence. In his…
He spouts off as if to be taken seriously, but what he says lacks any semblance of substance, fact or truth. In fact, the global warming denialism he perpetrates is…
Ironically, this letter was placed directly above and adjacent to a column by Robert Samuelson discussing the recent international conference in Paris on global warming. He wrote, “Nearly 200 countries…
On Dec. 21, Aztec approved a new electrical contract during a little known special session. The real winners of this new contract are Guzman Energy and the power elite at…
To offset these slightly higher energy costs, half the proceeds could be refunded to low- and middle-income households. A border adjustment for imports and exports would protect domestic manufacturers. This…
In the past five years, I’ve been embarrassed to call that airport home, and you should be too! The person that is hired to run it and the people that…
These days, from our president and from Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, we hear that our effort to defeat ISIL is “right where it should be.” From both Obama and…
We are taught today that the word regulated means controlled by legal process. Well, even today, that is not the only meaning. For example, in engineering it means “to an…
The reasoning is that ice melting at high latitudes results in the meltwater moving to lower latitudes, which increases the moment of inertia which slows rotation. Although this is theoretically…
I see signs and hear people say that you must share the road. What I do not understand is why it is OK for bicyclists to ride three or four…
One area of confusion seems to be the difference between caucuses and primaries. Colorado no longer has a presidential primary; your caucus is your opportunity to help select a presidential…
Could it be, instead, that voters simply do not trust the county enough to give $50 million, especially in light of the crowing county officials have done about their multimillion…
Toward this end, the NRA disingenuously conflates “regulation” with “abridgement of the right to bear” and has used this obfuscation in its propaganda to undermine government regulation of firearms. Because…
Piercing cobalt Christmas skies, Envelopes me in quiet peace, No city folk would recognize. For here, in silence Christmas speaks To hearts and minds with hope-filled eyes, Not in raucous,…
On all occasions, the police responded to the accident. Fortunately, there were no physical injuries; people, horses and pets were barely missed. All accidents created a mess to be cleaned…
A large dog came at the window with a roar (not a bark) at my eye level only a few inches away. I screamed, side stepped into my husband on…
But to now remove all glass recycling sites and make everyone drive out to the Durango Recycle Center? What is this, 1990? I am disappointed and frustrated that this is…
I have lived in La Plata County for more than 30 years and on U.S. Highway 550 south for 27. I find it inexcusable that our highway has remained a…
Wait, I need my own personal militia to protect me from what the Second Amendment has caused in America! Who is worried about ISIS (besides Fox News)? We should be…
Trump said we should kill not only the terrorists but also members of their families (mass murder, war crime). Cruz, a favorite of Christian evangelicals, said he would kill, kill,…
