With the school board election over, I’d like to share my thoughts about our school district. My children graduated from 9-R schools more than a decade ago. That said, I…
After reviewing the campaign for the 9-R school board elections, I am disappointed at the process, in our community and the results. The process where candidates must reside in their…
The creation of a wildlife crossing over U.S. Highway 160 is a reminder of just how much Colorado is committed to protecting both signature migratory animals and drivers. This falls…
I was a little taken aback when I read the Forest Service approved removing 26 acres of trees for more ski runs at Purgatory Resort. If you believe in science…
Here in Durango, we rely heavily on our local hospitals. The local expertise of the hospitals and personal attention that keeps our residents from having to travel miles in any…
The public pulse “Context for a petition to improve health care at Mercy” appeared in the Herald on Oct. 23. This document was the product of many meetings with physicians…
Judith Reynolds’ article and accompanying cartoon (Herald, Nov. 3) make a sensible and humorous case for where The Chief sign belongs and why. In analyzing a long-running debate, she not…
I am writing in regard to Rick Gardner’s letter to the editor published Nov. 8. As the father of a recent high school graduate and a current high school senior,…
I was saddened as I read the recent letter from J. Paul Brown, who was a legislator at one point. Perhaps Mr. Brown doesn’t know the difference between citizens sharing…
We are a community of different people. In many ways we are alike, and in many ways, we are very different and diverse. I’ve been thinking about our community lately…
The La Plata County Board of County Commissioners must improve the process in which residents for whom English is not a first language can provide input on how $10.9 million…
This week my child completed the Durango Healthy Kids Survey. This survey asked many very personal questions around subjects such as sexual activity, drug and alcohol use, safety at home…
With Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving this month of November, outside of taking action yesterday, now is the time to finally remove the grotesque statue outside of the Toh-Atin…
Critical race theory, a once-obscure academic concept, has recently emerged as a source of contentious debate. Unfortunately, the term is misused and profoundly misunderstood. The right-wing rebranding of CRT is…
Scott Beckstead’s rebuttal (“Americans will always revere wild horses,” Herald, Nov. 3) of Andrew Gulliford’s earlier misinformed screed against wild horses makes some important points about the Bureau of Land…
Dick White states that “(u)nity is crucial in fight against deadly threats of extreme heat, cold, storms” (Herald, Oct. 29). I wholeheartedly agree. We must unite in taking the necessary…
I am writing to encourage the Bayfield School District to include books that represent LGBTQ themes and other marginalized populations into free reading classroom libraries, at all schools at all…
Front-page headline in the Herald on Oct. 22: “Durango experienced 62 elevated ozone days in 2020.” When I read that headline, I’m like wow, that sounds really bad. After reading…
Hurray for Housing Solutions. Opening the Espero Apartments won’t solve all the problems of affordable housing in Durango, but it shows that when people work together, solutions are possible. I…
Thank you, Melissa Youssef and colleagues, for initiating a petition to improve health care in Durango at Centura Medical Center. I have, in fact, stopped referring to our regional hospital…
The crescendo of hateful, divisive and misinformed rhetoric displayed by individuals at recent 9-R school board meetings reached a new high, or rather low on Oct. 26, when an individual…
I’m putting on my parent hat only for this letter. How do you feel about white supremacists? What about those that celebrate the Nazi regime? Should these kind of hateful…
As the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, I was deeply disappointed and saddened the third time in the last month, when our church signage was vandalized. The…
A year or two ago, I was driving into Durango on Halloween night. I was rather bemused by the universal lack of lighting on children’s costumes as I approached what…
How dare The Durango Herald vilify Christians and especially Christians who are running for school boards in the article regarding school board candidate Richard “Dean” Hill! Your actions are no…
Public education in the United States is the envy of the world. It is the primary reason our country is so successful. Our system is designed to bring diverse socioeconomic…
There’s not much I recognize about Durango in this prophesied Kali Yuga daze compared to when I was kid my daughter’s age in the early ’70s. Yet? I certainly can…
How impractical to locate a fire station, which will also include EMT ambulances, police industrial lighting, secured fencing, the unknown noise of chainsaws and engine checks at an already busy…
I’m responding to an Oct. 8 story in the Herald about the decision to remove a book from a Bayfield Middle School teacher’s classroom library. Superintendent Kevin Aten made this…
In the Oct. 13 Herald, Durango School District 9-R board candidate Donna Gulec cautioned against “diverting scarce educational resources away from teaching reading, writing and math, toward making schools into…
