What’s going on in the schools? Are they prepared for the coming school year? How did the summer tourist season compare to last? How about the massive increase in housing…
Questions for November ballot sound complicated, but would simplify things
All interested parties, whether for or against retail stores and regulations, should make plans to attend and be heard. As a community we are entitled to speak to our elected…
But what about those of us who aren’t into football but would love to see news, weather and politics from the state we live in? What a shame we can’t…
However, the word “moronic” was edited out by the Herald. A while later I read a letter from Maurice Harrigan (Herald, July 2) about Vi McCoy in which she was…
Voters in Telluride will decide in November whether to apply a 1 cent per ounce tax on sugared soft drinks sold within the town limits. That debate will certainly be…
I woke one day thinking I should go on a lunch quest to eat and visit with my friends at all of the places near my office in an area…
The city charter requires that the City Council conduct a public hearing on the subject matter of any proposed ordinance before the two separate votes required for enactment. A public…
This anti-health care plan is so bad that the president has decided to delay many of the conditions of the act. The out-of-pocket caps caused so much havoc at colleges…
As McClellan stated, we as a community must come together to help our children. That also means all local child care centers need to work together to get a child…
A positive step toward cleaner energy, but larger issues must also be addressed
With the acquisition of KIVA and KREZ by Albuquerque stations, and turning them into repeaters, those counties flipped to the Albuquerque market, based solely on antenna viewing, which today represents…
With more than 50 percent of the properties in Durango already being rentals, Citizens for Healthy Established Neighborhoods is concerned that we have already exceeded a healthy threshold of owner-occupied…
A lifetime of service to the people of La Plata County and Southwest Colorado
The justification that this proposed put-in will alleviate congestion at the 33rd Street and 29th Street put-ins is ill-founded. The Oxbow agenda to resolve the problems associated with commercial rafting…
It has always been the heart of the Crosses Project to see this as an effort in which people of all persuasions, ideologies and a heart for the children could…
Years ago, he defended a young black woman in New York City who swore she was raped by two white men. Further investigation proved she was a liar, and a…
Recently, the Herald said that the argument about the plastic-bag surcharge boiled down to one side citing science and solutions while the other asserted that anything short of free, unlimited,…
That, of course, means acidic upstream waters, and countering that on site may well cause even more costly problems below the downstream neutralizing limestone watersheds, e.g., Lime Creek and Lime…
Currently, I am not being fined when I buy my pancake syrup in a plastic container. Nor my catsup, mustard, mayo, olive oil, peanut butter and yogurt. Next spring, I…
Congress, president reach necessary deal to keep higher education attainable
Just as the sight of rows and rows of white crosses was a visual reminder of death of soldiers in Point Loma, our small temporary crosses on Chapman Hill were…
I think it should be illegal to drive 22 mph slower than the posted speed limit with a name like “Raptor” or “Puma” or “Deathwolf” painted on the back of…
Is it not discriminatory to apply this proposed law only to certain grocery stores such as Walmart, City Market and Albertsons ? What about those of us who are concerned…
As for me, I will make a conscious effort to shop outside Durango city limits to divert sales-tax revenue to those who deserve it and to punish workers who voted…
What? He stated we have added 162,000 new jobs in the month of July. How did he do this? Obama’s health care has caused small businesses to place full-time employees…
Local governments now have a choice before them: allow retail marijuana centers in their communities and benefit from the safeguards and tax revenue that come with regulation, or prohibit them…
