Editorials
Dry erase: What else will the city remove so it can roust the homeless?
City Council is foolishly angling to remove our downtown signs
Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
The Electoral College is now perverted
There is no reason we shouldn’t elect presidents by a nationwide popular vote. The candidate with the most votes in the U.S. wins. I support the National Popular Vote law…
Letters to the Editor
CORE act is good for business – and life
Like Osprey, which established its base in Southwest Colorado for the area’s quality of life and access to spectacular lands, we founded our fly fishing and outdoor adventure business in…
Editorials
We’ll take Amazon: And we’ll even throw in some tax breaks
Forget all that hassle in New York, Jeff – Durango is calling your name
Letters to the Editor
News from the left and right essential
For example, Democrats supported a wall but don’t support Trump’s wall. They now support more effective and less expensive modern techniques. Both sides want the same thing, border security, but…
Letters to the Editor
City leaves us in dark on tax hike bid
A wide spectrum of citizens expressed many consistent themes, suggestions, and concerns. Except for comments about the details of the failed measure, it appears that only Councilor Melissa Youssef has…
Letters to the Editor
Don’t be so quick to blame the train
By my estimate, there have probably been over 3,000 train trips to Silverton and Cascade, many of them being fund raisers, during that same period of time. Before we get…
Letters to the Editor
News on effects of Trump tax cut is fake
The average net pay check actually increased every pay period because less federal tax was withheld. This kind of incomplete investigating and reporting is one of the reasons that people…
Editorials
Get that lion: The 26th president’s cougar fixation
Teddy Roosevelt hunted in Colorado and the world was never the same
Letters to the Editor
You got us through shutdown at forest
On behalf of the Forest Service employees, I want to thank you, our communities, for your outpouring expressions of care and concern for our federal workforce. It is heartwarming and…
Letters to the Editor
Pleased to see Bayfield news in Herald
I was excited to read news and events from outside Durango’s city limits. When my family moved to the area 42 years ago, Bayfield was commonly referred to as Durango’s…
Editorials
Mountain home: How our original human inhabitants got meat and life
The first people to live in the Rockies hunted super-bison with darts
Letters to the Editor
Sen. Gardner should sponsor energy act
Recent surveys by Yale University show growing majorities of Coloradans think that global warming is happening and believe that Congress should do something about it. Sen. Gardner has been a…
Letters to the Editor
Lapdog media comes to leftist masters
Wouldn’t it also be a breath of fresh air if the alleged media actually presented the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? But alas, Trump Derangement Syndrome…
Editorials
Read her lips: No free stuff
Just when Democrats are primed for single-payer, Pelosi lets them down
Letters to the Editor
More fake news on reproductive rights
New York did pass a late-term abortion law, which allows, and I quote, that “a patient can receive an abortion when, according to the practitioner’s reasonable and good faith professional…
Letters to the Editor
Now comes the renewables tipping point
Consider the current moment in American history. Just recently, Americans were divided about climate change, but now 72 percent of Americans say it’s important to them. And everyone wants cheaper…
Letters to the Editor
That’s not a tax cut, it’s a hike – yikes!
Under the new calculation,s my taxable income for 2017 (line 43) increased 216.0 percent. My taxes (line 44) increased by 361.9 percent. So much for middle class tax cuts. John…
Letters to the Editor
Thanks, governor. I love my electric car.
Supporting the transition to electric vehicles will save Coloradans money and allow us to breathe easier. The lifetime cost of ownership for electric vehicles is already less than that of…
Letters to the Editor
We need wolves now more than ever
Anyone who attended the Durango Wolf Symposium knows that this scientific meeting was about restoration and stewardship. Extirpation of wolves resulted in near elimination of the most important carnivore in…
Letters to the Editor
City’s tax is bait-and-switch proposal
The wording of the upcoming April ballot initiative, 1-A, to raise sales tax must be read carefully. The story from City Hall is the new money collected from the tax…
Editorials
Maybe nukes: A bold plan to get to zero emissions
Has the time come to consider reactors as a substitute for burning all this coal?
Letters to the Editor
Feeling negative? Think of John McCain
This gentleman seems to believe that broad-based negative labels and attacks are a productive manner in which to effect change in La Plata County and Durango. Promoting an us-versus-them mentality,…
Letters to the Editor
The Electoral College has had its day
By most accounts, the Electoral College was a political compromise crafted to reject direct democracy and one-person, one-vote. The original design was envisioned as a corrective – through voting by…
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Why so long to determine fire’s cause?
The cause of the Camp Fire in California was found immediately and went bankrupt. What about you, Al Harper? What about your coal-burning train that started the fire during extraordinary…
Editorials
Angry birds: Is Twitter making us useless?
Somewhere there’s a better world – it might not be on social media
Letters to the Editor
Sex ed bill is what teens, parents need
Teens need comprehensive sex ed because most parents aren’t experts and it’s uncomfortable for them to answer our questions. And we have questions that we don’t want to try to…
Letters to the Editor
Blame Tipton for shutdown’s local costs
My recollection is he cost the Durango area several million dollars in the 2013 shutdown. Think about that. Our congressman votes to intentionally hurt his constituents and his district’s economy.…