The recent Durango 9-R School Board meeting revealed a troubling lack of transparency, disregard for parental rights and failure to maintain neutrality as the district faces declining enrollment. With only…
Thanks, once again, to Mike Sigman, for his mansplaining talent. This time he tries to teach us the science of sexual imprinting and the “needless exposure to abnormal sexual behavior…
There are only two flags that belong in a public school classroom in the state of Colorado: the American flag and the Colorado state flag. The board’s insistence on rewriting…
Way to go, Durango, Chapman Hill is drawing more visitors than ever! Except you probably can’t find parking. Overflow is pushed into the gun club or farther across the roundabout…
Undocumented immigrants have come to the United States to escape horrendous conditions that include violence, rape, extortion and kidnapping at levels that none of us in the United States can…
It is so dismaying that the Weminuche bighorn population has dropped from 460 to 290 since 2011, especially when the target population is over 1,000 animals (Terry Meyers, Durango Herald,…
After the inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pause the disbursement of funds under the IRA. Theoretically, he should not be able to stop the funding permanently…
I experienced a wake-up call this past week when I had an abnormal imaging study. I was referred to CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital Breast Care Center in Durango for a procedure.…
RFK Jr. states that despite opposition from the Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization, Fauci declared that “remdesivir” will be the “standard of care” for COVID-19, then overlooked…
If our judicial system and lawyers don’t care about the justice system – trials and judgments that takes criminals off the street – why should any of us? Why should…
Greedy, insatiable tech barons seated at his throne in full display. Their wealth exceeds that of the robber barons in the Gilded Age. His election success was truly all about…
While Catholic and Christian Science and Presbyterian religions are dissimilar, they all often have Old Glory in full view in their houses of worship, usually inside the front of their…
My son, Brian Shafer, and I have been volunteers at the La Plata County Senior Center. Starting in February, due to budget constraints, the new hours of operation will be…
Perhaps the gentleman who suggested that this was the case (Herald, Jan. 24) feels that because there are more students expressing their desire to be nonheterosexual, this is caused by…
There is one person who deserves recognition for this success – Matt Nimetz. When the city of Durango advertised for a general contractor to manage the removal of the old…
There have been gay and trans people since the dawn of time. Continuing to spew this type of hate perpetuates the narrative that being gay or trans is bad. This…
With temperatures rising around the globe scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused Climate Change.…
God save America, or is it too late? Tim Fleming Bloomfield
I’d suggest adding a fourth: Deny construction of large-scale utility facilities that carry inherent wildfire risk. This includes large-scale lithium-ion storage facilities accompanying huge industrial solar generating plants. As more…
Why is it, that religion-based groups, committees and this political administration, dare to cast the full responsibility and ethical blame on only the feminine aspect of human biology while leaving…
I am currently in the La Canada/Flintridge suburb on the edge of the Eaton Fire, which has burned over 14,000 acres and left at least 17 deaths in its wake.…
Not only does the writer not include a single legitimate statistic regarding his claims, but he is going as far as to spread misinformation regarding the goals and the mission…
OK, I’ll bite … as long as we can apply the same standards to other recent contests. Perhaps the Nov. 5 presidential election? It is beyond dispute that Donald Trump…
I was on a Baptist mission trip in Southeast Asia in 1976 when a newspaper appeared at my motel door proclaiming Jimmy Carter as winner of the U.S. presidential election.…
Most people instinctively understand this and that is why children are kept from unwanted sexual exposures while they’re young. Who knows how many children have been coached to admire homosexuality,…
Our outrage should be off the scale. The Constitution clearly is at risk because the oligarchs assume they own the executive branch and by extension, the judiciary, in particular, and…
But, are they really all-inclusive? On Tuesday, Jan. 15, Durango hosted a duel wrestling tournament. Wonderful! Except for one thing: all female wrestlers were barred from participating in this duel…
Congress is considering attaching strings to LA wildfire recovery bills. I hope that Jeff Hurd recognizes that he represents a huge, fire-prone district in a blue state, and that a…
It wouldn’t hurt for homeowners to learn the best ways to replace what was demolished, since climate change is not going away with the “drill-baby-drill” attitude of the incoming administration.…
