We love Durango and are involved with animals and young-adult involvement with the community – including 4H, which gives kids the best involvement with helping others here in Durango. I’m…
The state’s testing debacle has cheated the learning process in the school system, promoted “teach to the test” instead of learning to learn, denied teachers’ rights to teach to learn…
I know that what we do now still matters – especially to our children and grandchildren. The best science suggests if we get serious about reducing greenhouse gasses now, we…
Adjustments should have been made and finalized before construction. From this intersection, a driver would have to drive about a mile out of his way to get to La Posta…
In the meantime, I will continue my plans to retire to Oregon, where I know I can live – and die, by choices well made. Oh, and by the way…
As Reuters reported, “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she made a mistake when she claimed she had come under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996…
In 2006, my wife was diagnosed with the terminal disease pulmonary fibrosis, and for the next four years, she suffered. During August of 2011, my daughter Brooke and I were…
In that vein, she sponsored and helped pass a bill in the Colorado Senate that allows parents to exempt their children from being vaccinated. They can be exempted for any…
Obama’s rather glib and brief history of the Crusades hardly told the whole complicated story of events of 800 years distant, but his moral relativism is rather glaring. As Bobby…
This bill called The “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act” (seriously) will be introduced by Reps. Pompey and Butterfield. The bill if enacted will: Prevent states from adopting their own…
In speaking with a person in the planning office, we discovered that: a) only those within 300 feet of this business were made aware of the proposal, b) the entire…
Apparently, Koch is quite serious. This is one of the most outrageously ironic pieces I have ever read. Those “well-intentioned” lawmakers who created “incarceration nation” were instructed by Koch’s American…
My question is, was J. Paul channelling Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” or NBC’s Brian Williams? Gerry Schaerer Durango
As a biker, if a car doesn’t come to a complete stop and I see their wheels continue to roll, I have no choice but to continue to brake and…
Sadly, when adults think of teens, they may think of overly dramatic whiners who barely will lift a finger except to play a video game This stereotype could not be…
The article states that the primary reason for entertaining these taxes is due to “declining property-tax revenue caused by falling natural-gas and oil production and property values.” Regarding oil and…
Now, as I read more about the fight brewing across Western states over whether the state or federal government should control public lands, I keep thinking to myself, where’s the…
In 2009, we decided that the best way to steward our irrigated land was to offer it to young farmers to grow food. We recruited a young farmer, gave her…
I moved here from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I had the delight of spending time every week with my niece. In losing that weekly time with her, I was losing seeing…
Women of color continue to face obstacles to accessing high-quality health care. Unintended pregnancy often results from limits on access and opportunity. We know that when women can plan their…
I ask President Obama to please veto this environmental disaster. Merion Sharp Ignacio
Dan should keep up that writing. It is direct, fiery and ruffles some feathers because he has something to say. He writes with flair and expertise about important subjects. His…
It also says that these professionals simply react to fire conditions rather than getting out in front of hazardous conditions and take proactive steps to mitigate the drivers of catastrophic…
I feel that a fuel-tax increase makes sense, and it is a tax that all Americans will have to pay. This tax increase should be part of an overall package…
When the day of reckoning arrives, there will be unprecedented financial hardship in this country. It’s time for each of us to start making such a fuss that the Washington…
There’s a $26 million county reserve, what’s it for if it is not for lean times? We already pay more for gasoline than any surrounding county. All the trustafarians in…
I feel that The Durango Herald used needlessly inflammatory words to try to create a more “newsworthy” front page article on a months-old issue. I, for one, intend to show…
An unnecessary proposal from Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, would have weakened the Antiquities Act and made it harder or even impossible to protect unique areas on our public lands, like…
