Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

Unite in mass non-compliance

“ … Governments ... deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alt...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Protecting transgender kids is the moderate position

For the few weeks before our school board election, I was spammed with text messages from “Neighbors for a Better Colorado,” who tried to incite a moral panic about transgender kids playing ...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

‘Open borders’ is a narrative, not a fact

A recent letter criticized the Herald for allegedly ignoring a “Biden/Harris open-borders policy” while now portraying deportations negatively (Herald, Dec. 12). That criticism is based on a...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald stands strong for our civil rights

Kudos to the Herald’s editorial board for the strong, well-written, well-researched editorials standing up for our community’s civil rights at a time when we sorely need it. The editorial on...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Gun-free zones can invite tragedy

I am writing regarding the editorial, “Our view: Choose light” (Herald, Dec. 17). There is one point you missed: these are Gun-Free Zones – and, in some cases, gun-free countries. It is easy...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Flock data collection violates the Fourth Amendment

All citizens driving through Durango are being watched and surveilled by the Durango Police Department’s Flock Safety cameras installed at 21 locations. These cameras record every license pl...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Counties are right: Hurd must introduce NCA

As a Montezuma County resident and avid outdoorsman, I was encouraged to see Commissioners Gerald Koppenhafer and Marsha Porter-Norton urge Congressman Hurd to introduce the Dolores River Na...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Fight to keep Peters behind bars

The request from Tina Peters’ lawyers – asking for leniency or intervention in her sentence – is patently absurd, both on the face of it and under the Rule of Law, the latter of which has be...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Help build a more walkable, bikeable Durango

Are you interested in making Durango a better place to live? A place that’s easier to walk, bike and maybe be more affordable? Strong Towns is a national nonprofit organization and movement ...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Friendship is life’s embrace

Inside the Statue of Liberty is a plaque engraved with words from “The New Colossus,” an 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe fr...

DATE: Dec 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Scheppelman signs, Hurd refuses

I was encouraged to learn that Hope Scheppelman, a candidate for U.S. Congress in Colorado’s 3rd District, has signed the pledge to introduce or co-sponsor the U.S. Term Limits constitutiona...

DATE: Dec 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump’s America: Isolated and undesirable

Thank you, President Trump. Your vision of an isolationist nation has come to fruition. That’s right – nobody anywhere in the world wants to visit America anymore. The only reason someone fr...

DATE: Dec 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor