Readers, in celebration of National Poetry Month, we are inviting submissions of poetry to our Letters to the Editor section throughout April. Tell us how you feel about things on…
As Action Line No. 2 (and 4), I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to Action Line No. 5, John Peel. John has not only continued the tradition…
It’s puzzling. Why does fear of World War III seem the underlying motive for America’s Ukraine strategy? I mean, look at our government’s efforts to dissuade Vladimir Putin from escalating…
OK class, today’s word is hubris. Hubris, boys and girls, is moving someplace new from an entirely different region and state – Texas. And then, one year later, thinking that…
An endangered species in our midst. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. Who knew? Biologist Jennifer Zahratka, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife. There’s much news lately about habitat loss as…
All this rigmarole and needlessly long, intensive, verbiage could be avoided. The law should say what it means. “If you are a female of any age residing in Colorado, and…
It’s interesting how quickly downtown bump-outs went from a way to support downtown restaurants during COVID-19’s most restrictive time to now being reported as a permanent summertime feature for any…
I was aghast to read the letter on March 18 from the nurse who assisted a woman from Texas in obtaining an abortion. As a medical professional, the nurse had…
Does anyone take Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz seriously? One has to wonder, what motivates them? Are they being coerced into acting like total idiots, or does it just…
State governments that border Colorado to the north and south continually show they value public education by passing legislation as proof – Colorado’s government continually fails to do this. New…
Several times a week, I drive by a new car wash under construction and I think, “How was this allowed to happen?” There was a news report recently that our…
Your editorial on March 18 on voter intimidation should have been a news story with more facts, including locations where these acts happened. There’s a certain irony here in as…
I’ve had the privilege of coming to know many of the children and their families who live at Westside Mobile Home Park over the past few years, and I want…
I worked in reproductive health care as a registered nurse in abortion care for approximately six-plus years. I took care of Texas women during the COVID-19 pandemic who were seeking…
Durango School District 9-R released the plans to rebuild Miller Middle School. The bond language said they were going to rebuild Miller to address the educational needs of the students.…
Well, I want to thank all the journalists who brought to light the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas was at the Jan. 6 attack on the…
Seven Western states and their leaders – all depending on water from the Colorado River – remain divided. Roerinkcca Split into basins by an imaginary border at Lees Ferry, Arizona,…
City leaders are asking citizens to reimagine a new and improved downtown. Soon the council will give its nod to one of four conceptual designs all with the common denominator…
Thank you, Bob Gramera, for standing up for President Trump (letter, March 12). Hypocrisy is apparently the mantra for politics in Colorado. Fact: Our borders need closed. Open borders put…
Wednesday’s commentary by Mark Squillace and his interpretation of “navigable rivers” for fishermen sounds like an excerpt from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s playbook of misinformation! He suggests that fishermen should…
Nearly two weeks have gone by where if there were referees overlooking the two sides fighting in Ukraine, Putin has the advantage by waving nuclear war in our face, with…
Our representative, Lauren Boebert, has become nothing more than a piddly heckler and a pusher of nonsensical conspiracies and lies. Not only is she an embarrassment to Colorado’s 3rd Congressional…
Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene showed themselves to be not worthy of the positions they hold in our national government on Tuesday night, when they heckled President Biden as…
The editorial published Wednesday, March 9, criticizing Lauren Boebert’s comment “Build the wall,” directed at President Biden in his State of the Union address, shows how the hypocrisy exhibited by…
In reference to March 4, The Durango Herald’s subhead on top of the front-page reading: “Man worries for future of separatist country; others believe Putin’s crusade is justified.” It is…
After reading the March 4 paper about the “opinions” of three women living in Durango (but formerly from Russia or Ukraine), I wondered why The Durango Herald chose to print…
Recent intelligence indicates that if Russian President Vladimir Putin elects to attack the U.S. he is most likely to use a nuclear high-altitude EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) weapon. These weapons, exploded…
Since its reconstruction in the 1990s, I’ve considered the so-called Swinging Bridge a perfect metaphor for the changes in Durango. Into the 1970s, the Swinging Bridge fairly bucked. It could…
Andrew Zeiler’s letter to the editor (Feb. 26) needs some clarification. The current exorbitant inflation was caused by flooding the market with cash in a shorter period than suppliers we’re…
The City Council has hired a consulting firm to come up with a new plan for Main Avenue. They came up with four choices, all with common features: Traffic on…
