So, off we went, and she thought Santa was really neat as well as “The Fetching Image Pet Photography” that donated its services – with all proceeds going to the…
To believe that all these numbers really represent children in all their amazing complexity, natural intelligence and creativity, or to believe that these numbers measure the skill and dedication of…
Because he doesn’t want us to prepare for Christmas, the Grinch is giving those of us who already have an ACA Plan until Dec. 15 to either A) find a…
Really? Maybe so, but a large number of people who were paying at least a little attention knew it was a huge mistake right from the beginning. Ah, but those…
Wouldn’t it make sense to allow all such costs to be deductible from gross-adjusted income? I suppose they prefer to “give” us some visible benefit like ACA (Obamacare) rather than…
You are invited to join us for funeral services Friday, Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church followed by the release of doves and a reception also…
The company has no solutions for the enormous increase in truck traffic, which is devastating to the unimproved roads, poses a risk to road safety and is a continuous source…
The author generalizes that because the protesters “like anarchy they . . . like vigilantism . . . trying to undo the civil-rights work of the 1960s by making this…
I just came back home after being gone for two years, and I guess this is a hot topic here, but hey this isn’t Aspen, Telluride or California. If people…
Thanks to Basset and shame on The Durango Herald! Paul Bynum Durango
This administration’s obsession with testing and data collection is relentless. About $1 million sorely needed elsewhere was diverted for these purposes. In 2013, 9-R and Bayfield hired a software company…
I wonder if Mason ever had the thought that the Cheyenne, Arapaho and all the other Native American tribes might have had similar feelings as we did on Sept. 11.…
His over-the-top parodies of the right wing never fail to crack me up! That line about the Ferguson cop being “one defenseless white guy” still has me chuckling. Steve Caplan…
“Harold Furchtgott-Roth, a former commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, has been saying for months that if the Internet is reclassified as a telephone service – as Mr. Obama is…
If not for that organization when I was growing up, we would not have had Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. I never fail to smile and donate when I see the…
1. Don’t walk down the middle of the street waving the spoils from your latest strong-arm robbery. 2. If a cop tells you to do something, just do it. 3.…
They do not want the police to do their jobs of protecting the general public, its properties and even themselves. In this case, they’ve made it where the police can’t…
Gruber is an economics professor at MIT and was commissioned by the federal government to develop the language for the bill that became Obamacare. As shown in the video clips…
Hickenlooper is simply wrongly promoting collective guilt and reinforcing the divide and conquer tactic of racism. Will the Native Americans now apologize for their ancestors’ savage murdering of the Hungate…
After a couple of years under Snowberger, the staffing shortage represents some of the first chickens coming home to roost. In trying to turn Durango’s school district from a warm,…
Those policies specifically support affordable housing through “the retention of existing housing through active monitoring of the supply of housing by type, condition and tenure, encouraging the maintenance and rehabilitation…
While I knew that coming to Durango would mean more opportunities to play outside, I didn’t anticipate how many novel and different ways I’d find to enjoy our beautiful backyard.…
Los Angeles, in an arid landscape, should never have become the unsustainable megalopolis it is. The Ogallala Aquifer, the water source for the breadbasket of our nation, is one-third gone.…
To print stories implying that there is widespread racism in policing is just basic yellow journalism. Disproportionate rates of involvement in police shootings for different race groups is certainly multifactorial,…
Landscaping in disrepair on the northeast corner of the Durango post office, as seen from west Eighth Street.Courtesy of Jim Glass Perhaps that the disrepair belongs to a branch of…
TransCanada has not claimed that the “thousands of jobs” that will be created are expected to be permanent jobs. As many of these jobs will be construction-related, the idea of…
Most of us forget that we are the sons and daughters or, more likely the grandsons and granddaughters, of immigrants. Our forebears came to the United States for the same…
That’s why the Gunnison sage-grouse deserves federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. A Nov. 14 Herald editorial opposed the decision by U.S. Fish & Wildlife to grant threatened protected…
For 10 years, I felt LPEA was really going to bat for us. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, one year after finding my husband with a log…
