I served on the Durango School Board for nearly 8 years and have a solid understanding of the deep responsibility our community has to supporting public schools that are open and free for all, not sha...

In response to Mr. Skillen's letter (Herald, Oct. 5) regarding The Code Rights Project, there are a few important points to clarify. The Code Rights Project has taken no position on the proposed 1-cen...

Yes, it's very nice to drive on the recently repaved Colorado 140 in and near Hesperus. And, no, it's not nice at all to drive by the junkyard across from the Hesperus Church. It's been there so long ...

A recent letter (Herald, Oct, 5) attempts to conflate the counterexample proposed by 17 year-old Hannah Cairo to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture (a purely mathematical problem), with climate science ...

Disagreement has become division. No two-party system can fix what it has inadvertently caused. Economic hardship, poverty, cuts to health care and the burden undocumented immigration has placed on mi...

Charlie Kirk’s death was a tragedy. The outrage was warranted. Where was this administration’s outrage over the two students shot at Evergreen High School on the same day by a shooter who expressed ne...

On Sept. 24, The New York Times reported that President Trump endorsed a “new civics effort with MAGA aligned groups.” A new civics education program led by the America First Policy Institute and supp...

When natural gas prices doubled after Russia invaded Ukraine, Colorado families saw their heating bills spike by hundreds of dollars. But not everyone felt the pain equally. Families who had invested ...

I was eight years old in the mid-20th century when a family friend asked me, “Billy – What do you want to be when you grow up?” Without a moment’s hesitation, I responded, “I want to be a newspaper re...