Action Line - The Durango Herald

Accuracy of Google map not a shore thing

From time to time, The Durango Herald will include a Google map at the bottom of online stories to show where news happens. The other day, I noticed that Google displays a couple of “lakes”...

DATE: Dec 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Wag more, bark less with annual Christmas doggerel

’Twas three days ’fore Christmas, and all through our towns Events of the past year brought smirks and some frowns. We’ll look at what happened for better or worse; ...

DATE: Dec 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Roads gifted with spa treatment, its amenities

In late fall, the city sprayed oil and spread sand on some of the streets in town. What was that all about, and can you check to make sure that the stuff is safe? After a rainstorm, I saw so...

DATE: Dec 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Big plan to lower wildlife collisions has little impact

Can you please explain to readers and drivers why the U.S. Highway 550/160 “Day-Night 60 mph-55 mph, September–May” signs were removed or ever put up to begin with? Is this another example o...

DATE: Dec 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

School buses on Florida can take a pass on pulling over

When riding the railroad’s bus to Silverton, the bus often can’t travel the speed limit. The bus periodically pulls over when more than five cars are backed up. The driver says this is requi...

DATE: Nov 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Mall might just qualify as next Wilderness Study Area

First, the Durango Mall didn’t want Mercury as neighbors. Now, it doesn’t want a hotel built next door. Could the mall petition itself to become a federally protected Wilderness Study Area? ...

DATE: Nov 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

When stop signs go, ticket for running them remains

For years, there were no stop signs for north-south traffic at East Third Avenue and 31st Street. Then they put up two – one for north and one for south – and parked a police car nearby. A b...

DATE: Nov 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Become fluent in effluent by touring sewer plant

I read that the city is offering “open houses” of our aging wastewater treatment plant each Wednesday and Friday this month. So that prompts two obvious questions about the sewer plant. Firs...

DATE: Nov 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Canadian flag flap isn’t all what it’s cracked up to be

I’ve been eating lunch lately at RGP’s Flamed Grilled Wraps, the little sandwich shop in the Main Mall. The cavernous mall atrium is ringed by national flags, including a Canadian flag that ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

It’s a stretch to blame spandex for scofflaw cyclists

Have there been any studies on how wearing spandex might influence eyesight or the ability to follow simple directions? I see a lot of spandex-wearing individuals who are unable to comprehen...

DATE: Oct 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Trees on sculpture ‘isle’ have always been on agenda

After that amusing pictorial review of items resembling the Ark of History (a croissant, shrimp skewer, clothesline, etc.), you vowed no more coverage of the sculpture. Would you please reco...

DATE: Oct 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Durango is a neat town, but it’s not very neat

Why is it that after the “fall cleanup,” our neighborhoods don’t look any cleaner? Based on the sheer volume of detritus left in the streets, it would seem that Durango’s lawns should look l...

DATE: Oct 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line