Our health-care system has not been good for my family. We pay $630 for catastrophic coverage. When we do have to see a doctor, we pay on top of that.…
The voters have spoken, and the sooner that the minority can accept this fact, the sooner that we can all move on. I, for one, am getting sick and tired…
What should be the standard of living in the United States? Do we want everyone to be able to live a “comfortable” life? Are we OK with a significant portion…
Clark mentioned that physical activity and exercise are great to keep the joints mobile. One of the best activities for arthritis is water aerobics or swimming. It is low impact…
The teachers in our public schools are the true heroes of our community, and they deserve so much more from us. They spend their days (and many evenings and weekends)…
You have already felt the reduction of a bare-bones diet by about 21 meals a month caused by the expiration of stimulus funding passed in response to Wall Street’s Great…
Eleven years before the Dominguez-Escalante expedition, our area was visited by another Spanish explorer, Juan Maria Antonio de Rivera. Rivera also crossed the Animas River and likely camped near the…
I propose Durango establishes a “pot zone” where all the shops, bars and any marijuana-related situations take place. I’d prefer this to be in Bodo or somewhere outside of town,…
After reading all three letters, it’s a puzzle as to how Harrigan came to the conclusion that conservative letter-writers are submitting “a pile of Fox/Limbaugh talking points that they recite…
Both instances were over big events, although the first did not affect the folks, whereas the current deception affects all of us directly or indirectly because it affects one-sixth of…
I received a summons for turning left into traffic. The lights turned red on my side, but the oncoming lights had not changed yet. While I was trying to get…
We would also like to expand on the statement the story included from our public information officer regarding safety and compatibility, to clarify for all our members who are considering…
Current State Rep. Mike McLachlan has represented us well at the state Capitol. He has sponsored bills to support and recognize our military veterans. And he voted with the overwhelming…
These were the only handicapped-accessible cabins on the entire lake. Having stayed in these cabins, I fail to understand why they were closed, and the county is not enforcing the…
In a story about funding the Discovery Museum here in Durango (Herald, Oct. 30), the writer noted a supporting grant from the “University of California at Berkeley.” I would like…
In June, I visited a clinic for a simple tetanus shot. I had suffered an inconsequential scratch to my finger several days prior. This was self-treated with no persistent problems.…
We will have a plethora of shrine offerings that you can use to rid yourself of the demons of any past trauma you have been through. Exactly one year ago,…
Coming from Kentucky to Durango, I can share so many thoughts regarding mosquitoes and their control, but the bottom line is that Schaaf has protected us, and for that, my…
Simply put, we do, indeed, have that entitlement, which is now being direly threatened by President Barack Obama’s attempt to sell out an important point of our sovereignty to the…
Sadly, after five years in office, Barack Obama has turned out to be a major disappointment. In spite of all the hype, Obama seems to have few skills other than…
And important facts are missing in the story. First, we need to know why service has been so poor. Second, we need to see comparisons to service records in comparable…
Just consider that if you take away the cost of the Iraq war, plus the cost of the “son of the Iraq war,” the Afghan war, and the annual aid…
We, on the south side, now will live with a five-story, block-to-block hotel on Second Avenue, which likely will bring increasing parking problems, noise, violations of privacy and increased traffic…
A recent issue of The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons has an article pointing out that climate-change believers now are so openly disregarding facts that their climate-change beliefs have…
