Volunteers and employees of the National Park Service, may I sale you on your 109th anniversary? Thank you for making our parks, monuments, historic sites and recreation areas available to us. Those p...

In his letter, “Get involved, not just outspoken,” (Herald, Aug. 10), Steve Salka, Commissioner Matt Salka’s father, urged critics of La Plata County’s planning and building policies to get actively i...

Last month, Vice President JD Vance delivered a speech for the right-wing think tank the Claremont Institute about statesmanship: what it means to lead a country. The speech was delivered on the heels...

There is a song in Spanish that goes, “Somos Mas Americanos.” It translates to “We are more American.” What it basically states is as follows. “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us. All o...

Local schools are transitioning back into the classroom, and some new and notable changes, additions and announcements are on the docket for the new school year. Durango School District Durango School...

Fifteen years ago, when Arizona enacted a notorious anti-immigrant “show me your papers” law, I wrote an essay in The Times that began: “I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon. Because I’m not go...

Two weeks ago, we had a politically motivated arson attack on voting machines in Colorado. Will our next election be open and fair? We count on our Congressional delegation, Republican and Democrat al...

I know that our immigration system was not working, but I’m confused by how the recent changes have fixed any of the problems. To my understanding, one issue was immigrants “cutting in line” or settli...

Now that The Durango Herald survey has determined that, by a two to one margin, respondents don’t want speed enforcement cameras in the city, it seems only logical that there should be a new follow up...