In a Durango City Council meeting on Tuesday, councilors voted to withdraw their baseless lawsuits against the county commissioners and sheriff related to their desire to use the La Plata…
Now that President Donald Trump is putting together his Cabinet and top administrators, it has become quite clear where his priorities lie. Having campaigned on “rescuing the middle class,” Trump…
Jeff Hurd, you ended up choosing the wrong time to go to Washington. That is, it will be the wrong time if you end up supporting the unethical, vindictive, retributive…
Is there nothing in the federal government that Donald Trump doesn’t want to pull apart and destroy, behaving as though his election victory gives him unlimited authority? Internally, he has…
Herb Bowmancca Just two weeks ago I was living in Yerevan, Armenia, directing a U.S. government-sponsored human rights project when the State Department ordered almost all foreign assistance projects around…
A top priority for President Donald Trump is extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but despite all of the touting of this, it is worthwhile to revisit how this…
The recent Durango 9-R School Board meeting revealed a troubling lack of transparency, disregard for parental rights and failure to maintain neutrality as the district faces declining enrollment. With only…
Mary Nowotnycca Remember seventh grade? Physical changes? Social and emotional upheaval? Perhaps a shift in school setting, classmates and teachers? Establishing new relationships can pose challenges or sometimes fracture a…
Work has been underway at the state Capitol since the beginning days of the legislative session to tackle the sizable shortfall in the state’s fiscal year, which begins in July.…
Thanks, once again, to Mike Sigman, for his mansplaining talent. This time he tries to teach us the science of sexual imprinting and the “needless exposure to abnormal sexual behavior…
There are only two flags that belong in a public school classroom in the state of Colorado: the American flag and the Colorado state flag. The board’s insistence on rewriting…
Way to go, Durango, Chapman Hill is drawing more visitors than ever! Except you probably can’t find parking. Overflow is pushed into the gun club or farther across the roundabout…
There are several images in President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the second just a week old, that will remain in the public’s mind: his escalator descent smearing all…
Undocumented immigrants have come to the United States to escape horrendous conditions that include violence, rape, extortion and kidnapping at levels that none of us in the United States can…
It is so dismaying that the Weminuche bighorn population has dropped from 460 to 290 since 2011, especially when the target population is over 1,000 animals (Terry Meyers, Durango Herald,…
After the inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pause the disbursement of funds under the IRA. Theoretically, he should not be able to stop the funding permanently…
I experienced a wake-up call this past week when I had an abnormal imaging study. I was referred to CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital Breast Care Center in Durango for a procedure.…
RFK Jr. states that despite opposition from the Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization, Fauci declared that “remdesivir” will be the “standard of care” for COVID-19, then overlooked…
If our judicial system and lawyers don’t care about the justice system – trials and judgments that takes criminals off the street – why should any of us? Why should…
Greedy, insatiable tech barons seated at his throne in full display. Their wealth exceeds that of the robber barons in the Gilded Age. His election success was truly all about…
While Catholic and Christian Science and Presbyterian religions are dissimilar, they all often have Old Glory in full view in their houses of worship, usually inside the front of their…
My son, Brian Shafer, and I have been volunteers at the La Plata County Senior Center. Starting in February, due to budget constraints, the new hours of operation will be…
Perhaps the gentleman who suggested that this was the case (Herald, Jan. 24) feels that because there are more students expressing their desire to be nonheterosexual, this is caused by…
There is one person who deserves recognition for this success – Matt Nimetz. When the city of Durango advertised for a general contractor to manage the removal of the old…
A memo from the White House budget office on Monday placed a freeze on all federal government grant and loan disbursements, and other financial assistance, effective Tuesday, Jan. 28 at…
There have been gay and trans people since the dawn of time. Continuing to spew this type of hate perpetuates the narrative that being gay or trans is bad. This…
With temperatures rising around the globe scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused Climate Change.…
God save America, or is it too late? Tim Fleming Bloomfield
