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Letter: Support state, local bans on plastic bags

Plastic bags pollute our city. Lightweight and easily airborne, they tumble into the Animas River, get caught in trees and litter our trails. Plastic degrades into tiny particles...

DATE: Apr 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bloomberg Editorial Board: Post-Chauvin, America must think about justice

By the Bloomberg Opinion editorial board The killing of George Floyd marked a turning point in America’s history of racial justice and injustice. It lent new urgency to questions ...

DATE: Apr 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: New partnerships help reduce wildfire threat

As executive director of Wildfire Adapted Partnership (formerly FireWise of Southwest Colorado), a local nonprofit working to protect lives and property from wildfire, I am gratified to see ...

DATE: Apr 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Finance director’s case soon will be finalized

Former finance director’s case to be finalized

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letter: Herald should stop running COVID-19 statistics

Here’s an idea – how about if the Herald quits beating us about the face and head with the daily COVID-19 stats? After more than a year of seeing these every day, day after day, ...

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Trennie Burch Collins: ‘The Chief’ caricature hurts Indigenous people

It’s funny to think that in 2021 Indigenous people are still having to explain themselves and why images that are supposed to portray them are racist and hurtful. I humbly come be...

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Jeff Kass: Columbine reporter connects the dots between mass shootings

I was one of the first reporters on scene at the Columbine shootings on April 20, 1999. And I covered it continuously, as a local newspaper reporter and eventually as a book author, for 10 y...

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: ‘Love Train’ should return to Durango

Rockwood Estates and Village at Rockwood, along with residents of Rockwood, hosted a meeting on April 2 to try to resolve some of the train issues. The train responded by attendi...

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: COVID-19 state restrictions: lifted too soon?

Were state restrictions lifted too soon?

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Jack Turner: Both political parties practice voter suppression

There is great media focus on the Republican-dominated legislatures determined to unfairly reduce, restrict or eliminate likely Democratic Party voters – just look at the Major League Baseba...

DATE: Apr 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Be civilized, ‘love thy neighbor’

Our president was on TV for three minutes recently, after talking on the phone with the George Floyd family. Both requested no violence after the verdict. Numerous boarded-up cit...

DATE: Apr 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor