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Michael Fields: State government needs to get out of the way

In the middle of a recession, the Legislature wants to raise your property taxes. State Sens. Jack Tate and Chris Hansen, along with Reps. Matt Soper and Dayena Esgar, led an eff...

DATE: Jul 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Extending mask order was a good move

Thank you to City Council for its courage and common sense for extending the mandatory mask order within Durango city limits. That is a great relief to many, who feel safer going ...

DATE: Jul 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: How about the face of a real ‘chief’?

Regarding the controversy over the “Chief” sign at Toh-Atin Gallery, why not have one of the Native American artists represented by the gallery repaint its face with a portrait of a real Nat...

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Racist stereotypes need to go bye-bye

May a neighbor and My memories of The Chief diner and its iconic sign are less than happy. In the mid-1950s, my entire family came down with food poisoning after eating at there. The diner...

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Vandalism is not the American way

I am prompted to write in response to my friend, Jackson Clark, and the “Chief” sign by Toh-Atin Gallery; and by President Trump’s executive order to implement the federal law I wrote, The V...

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trump has his knee on Republicans’ necks

My father, a 100%-disabled veteran among 23 generations of veterans in the Quintana family, used to constantly say to me, “Be patient son, right will prevail.” I say to the patrio...

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

The Declaration of Independence was a perfect beacon put up by imperfect men

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Whose Columbus is it?

Pueblo sadly torn over Columbus statue

DATE: Jul 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Opposing ‘Chief’ sign is PC run amok

Strange that now that Black Lives Matter is active in Durango, the Herald thinks that the “Chief” has to go (“ First, it’s on private property, Meets all the silly hysterical society and ci...

DATE: Jul 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Mask advocates becoming unpleasant

Has anyone else noticed how uncivil, unfriendly and sometimes downright nasty our lovely, friendly little town has become? Fear has ugly effects on people. Perhaps it is just brin...

DATE: Jul 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I’ve watched police and I like what I see

Seeing again the police brutality happening around the county, I thought I’d pass on a couple positive observations of our own local force. First was when an irate non-customer de...

DATE: Jul 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Charles Blow: Return of ‘Law and Order’ for blacks and hippies

Recently, Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced an executive order on police reform – a list of minor, unfunded actions that incentivized some changes but mandated ...

DATE: Jul 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns