In that letter, I asked the commissioners to explain these unethical acts. After more than ample time, unanswered emails and no phone calls, we the taxpayers still do not have…
The best healthcare is about providers who can listen. It is about offering help and hope to the ill and the depressed. It is about compassion for those whose diseases…
It is hard to understand the self-centered health care proposals that the Republican leadership is proposing. I am reminded of the line in the Gospel that should be a guiding…
City council should avoid singling out a business that already pays its fair share
Should we be proud of this fact? Yes! Then why are we so wedded to the past when it comes to energy? Fact: 373,000 Americans worked in solar energy last…
If I’m dying for a blizzard, Do I contact Mr. Wizard? Or do I drive to New Mexico? And if I want a chicken dinner (the finger-lickin’ was a winner),…
Our vision is a world in which every child obtains the right to safety, growth and an opportunity to achieve their dreams. We want to connect with local other youth…
These cuts will severely reduce income to health facilities and result in lost jobs across sectors. The cuts will also come at a severe cost to the state budget. Health…
Josephine Peterson/Durango Herald <br><br>6.15.17 Washington DC Left to right: Ty Churchwell of Trout Unlimited, La Plata County Commissioner Brad Blake, Durango City Councilor Dean Brookie and San Juan County Commissioner…
I’m wondering if the artist created the artwork from an actual photograph or her imagination? It immediately struck me that the “sea of wildflowers” looked suspiciously like the invasive species…
The refuge is one of our nation’s most iconic and wild public lands. The tranquility and solitude that exists there can be found almost nowhere else on earth. For hunters,…
To them I say, “Shame on you. Have you no decency?” The isn’t Nazi Germany or 1950s McCarthyism. Or is this what things are coming to with a president who…
It seems America has become the nation of lawlessness. Why? Because our people, many who are often “supposed Christians” support lawlessness. In fact some embrace it. The reason Rosa Sabido…
du1-i-syn I have always enjoyed reading the Herald, and like my friends who lean both left and right, I don’t always agree with everything that is written in the paper.…
Our family was displaced by the fire in our townhomes on June 14. We have received with open arms the abundant sympathy and support from family, friends and strangers. As…
Rosa Sabido tells her story while surrounded by a local support group at the United Methodist Church in Mancos on June 29.Sam Green/The Journal She is, though, the face of…
With conflicts on the rise, we need to do more to avoid attracting our neighbors
du1-i-syn She has renewed her immigration status annually while working through the red tape required to become a citizen. This year, the (previously routine) annual renewal of her status was…
It’s possible you’re unaware of these dangers because the government tells us that violent crime is down and most rapes aren’t reported in the paper. It happens frequently and the…
By a roll call vote on May 4, two hundred seventeen United States Representatives, including Ken Buck (R-CO), Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and Scott Tipton R-CO), voted to take health care…
Supreme Court justices recently voted to hear an appeal from the owner of a Colorado bakery who refused to cater to a “wedding” of heterophobic homosexuals, and was persecuted by…
The increases were advertised as a series of small, equitable increases to be able to issue debt for the Ridges Basin Water Treatment Plant, a new facility at Lake Nighthorse.…
But now Rand Paul just stated, “We have to realize we don’t have money to support Medicare and other social security programs for retirees! At this rate, we’ll simply run…
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald<br><br>A single engine air tanker drops its load of fire retardant high above the Lightner Creek Fire on Wednesday evening after a drone was reported flying in the…
du1-i-syn Through the use of something called “categorical exclusions,” the bill would prevent any public participation and side-step any environmental analysis as required under the current National Environmental Policy Act.…
I’ve worked for bad bosses before; I’ve been ripped off by crooks before; and I’ve believed what I wanted to be true in spite of the evidence, way too many…
There is a breakfast at the Lions Club in Bayfield and the parade at 10 a.m. A breakfast in Durango at Rotary Park, with the parade at 6 p.m. Fireworks…
Over 1,600 people have attempted suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Only 28 survived. In an interview, each reported that two-thirds of the way down, they experienced a…
No doubt that helped the fire to burn even more and endangered life and property. Whoever this self-centered and thoughtless individual is needs to be punished severely. Pilots can’t see…
That’s Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, from Jan. 2010, referring to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The senator continued, “ … that’s not the way to operate…the president ought to…
