Thank you to Indivisible, the Durango Democrats, the Durango anarchist community (anarchists are often misunderstood – they are working hard, like many others), 5 Calls and Main Avenue businesses for…
As I listened to the speeches and chants echoing down Main Avenue during the March 28 No Kings demonstration, I was struck by a slightly hollow feeling. Is this what…
The article defending the “Callery,” actually the cultivar “Bradford,” pear tree fails to mention that this non-native tree was introduced as the Bradford cultivar in the 1960s and has rapidly…
Once again, the Herald is showing its true colors, displaying flags supporting Minnesota (ripe with government fraud/abuse), Greenland (a victim of Danish imperialism) and Ukraine (one of the most corrupt…
For three nights I lay seeing poppies burst their tight green pouches, nude fuzzy lollipops so sexy they border on indecent as their great enveloping mouths flap into life. They…
Back in 1898, our country heard the call to war. Some claimed that Cuban freedom was a cause worth fighting for. Pulitzer and Hearst weighed in to sway the nation’s…
I was reported to the FBI as a “domestic terrorist” by Fort Lewis College professors and Durango police on Feb. 11, 2003, in response to a column I wrote for…
Every Republican elected over the last 50 years won office using the same election systems they now attack – including mail-in ballots and pre- and post-Election Day counting. These systems…
We would like to thank Tom Miller (Herald, March 22) for describing in vivid detail the serious threat to our beloved local mountain range – a threat that has been…
Trump is promoting his “Save America Act” and demanding an end to what he calls rigged elections, including mail-in voting. He claims the U.S. is the only country that allows…
Please submit poems (250 words or less) to [email protected] so we might feature your original work or favorite poem this month.
Women’s History Month has ended. The reality women face has not.
I have enjoyed The Durango Herald for 50 years and am glad to have a paper so devoted to reporting our local news. The Herald keeps our community informed about…
Regarding “Officials adopt wildfire rules” (Herald, March 25): Why did county government not thoroughly seek to understand and explicitly address the concerns of insurance agencies, so that homeowners can be…
This ICE controversy is puzzling to me, and I decided to do an experiment. Below is my version, followed by a ChatGPT rewrite of the same argument. I’d like to…
As I watch gas prices rise on an almost daily basis since the start of the Iran war, I think about the 13 service members who have died as of…
We are all the same – no exceptions. Whether Democrat, Republican, Independent or someone who chooses not to vote. Brown, black, white or tan. Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, atheist or…
Donald Trump campaigned as a “peace president,” promising no new wars, stability abroad and prosperity at home – even openly coveting the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, his record has often…
The SW Colorado Group Sierra Club submits this letter March 23, World Climate Day, as a warm, dry winter transitions into a hot, dry spring, and we are all faced…
Thank you, La Plata County Commissioners and others involved in the recent actions taken to enforce reasonable land-use regulations for Unit 3 of the Forest Lakes District. These actions are…
LPEA members should be paying close attention not just to the shift to Mercuria, but also to how rates are being managed in the meantime. We are being told that…
Crow must fly. It is his essence. An irrepressible desire and need to SOAR! Nothing – no caging, training, rewards or abuse can change this. It is who crow is!…
I find it deeply disturbing that President Trump decided to re-endorse Congressman Hurd on March 20, and it raises one simple question: What changed? I’m no political insider, but endorsements…
Change rarely arrives quietly. And hardly ever without resistance. On April 1, La Plata Electric Association turns a page decades in the making, leaving Tri-State Generation and Transmission – a…
