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Our view: We need to hear more about this city budget boondoggle

Waiting can make people anxious whether it means standing in line or anticipating the messiah. Lately, we have been a little jumpy about the city of Durango, which is usually expressed in te...

DATE: Jan 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Thomas Friedman: Trump killed Iran’s most overrated warrior

One day they may name a street after President Donald Trump in Tehran. Because Trump ordered the assassination of possibly the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Mi...

DATE: Jan 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Letters: Gardner should be careful on impeachment

I have a question for Cory Gardner: Let’s say you get re-elected and are appointed to be the chair of a committee that has oversight of the executive branch – FBI, CIA, armed serv...

DATE: Jan 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Cory Gardner: It was a great year for Colorado

As we look back on the past year and look forward to the year ahead, I want to share some of the victories we were able to accomplish. Good news doesn’t always make the evening broadcasts or...

DATE: Jan 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Demand a fair trial for President Trump

During the impeachment hearings, I was disappointed to see the House Judiciary Committee vote straight down party lines. President Trump withheld U.S. support from an ally unless ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Deep purple looks good on us

The sheer number of Colorado’s unaffiliated voters should drive decisions

DATE: Jan 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Vote for me to fight immigrant amnesty

Congressman Scott Tipton’s terrible vote for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, his absence in defending that vote and his reliance on taxpayer-paid congressional staff to spin for him hi...

DATE: Jan 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Gardner has no excuse for backing Trump

With all due respect to fellow reader Michael Frasier, he got nearly everything dead wrong about President Trump and the invertebrate Sen. Gardner (“ Along with the fact that it was the Oba...

DATE: Jan 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

On climate change, get contraception

Regarding Bret Stephens’ column Jan. 3 (“ If everyone in this world had solar panels, screwed in LED light bulbs and drove electric cars, the climate would still get hotter and hotter faste...

DATE: Jan 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Democrats join the fake news biz

Both the left and the right now are knowingly spreading false news

DATE: Jan 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: I always love living in Durango

This was my letter to the editor sent to The Durango Herald in 1979: “Let me tell you about the town where I live. It’s a small town with a large heart. “We have our pr...

DATE: Jan 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Michael Fields: Forcing school districts to raise taxes is wrong

“Raise your taxes or we’ll cut your state funding.” That’s the message politicians would be sending school districts under a new proposal that is being worked on for the 2020 legislative ses...

DATE: Jan 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns