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Our view: Allen Ginsberg and America talking to itself

We noticed with a brief pang the other day that it was the anniversary of the death of a great American poet. Allen Ginsberg succumbed at just 70, in New York, to liver cancer, on April 5, 1...

DATE: Apr 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letters: How about not using any grocery bags?

In response to “ Easy, simple, safe. After check-out, reload your items into the cart. One less touch may mean one less transmission, definitely one less plastic bag. ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Crisis can bring out worst in people, too

Since the advent of the coronavirus, two men in Durango broke their contract with an elderly woman by demanding that she vacate the premises. They sent intimidating emails stating that they ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Turner and Minkler need your support

With all that is going on in our world right now, we have an important local election of La Plata County commissioners this November. It is exciting to have two locals, Jack Turne...

DATE: Apr 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Frank Bruni: A politician takes a sledgehammer to his own ego

In the market for inspiration? Try the parable of the blind man who gave up political glory for Jesus. He quickly climbed the rungs of power, became the lieutenant governor of the...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: It’s true, whether or not you believe it

“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press,” Samuel Adams said. I am amused by letters accus...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I think the Herald is disgusting now

It’s disgusting and cynical the way the Your paper made a promise to make all relevant information about the coronavirus in our community available free of charge at a time when so many of...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: LPEA candidates augur a rosy future

The right choice in the LPEA election could mean many more jobs in La Plata County in the future. I am writing to endorse Guinn Unger, Rachel Landis and Doug Fults for the LPEA bo...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Shame on manager, mask-less workers

We just shopped at a local grocery store and noticed that there are now employees not wearing masks or gloves who previously were. We noticed people working in the produce section and behind...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Thanks to Strater for its generosity now

City Councilor Barbara Noseworthy, working with Durango’s Compañeros, asked for help getting food and other supplies for people who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic and had no resourc...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Let us work out on tracks, 9-R, wouldya?

Durango 9-R school district has recently decided to close down all of their tracks and athletic facilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to “prevent the spread” of the virus....

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor