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Don’t let Legislature fool you on Prop CC

In your upcoming mail ballot, you will be asked to give the state of Colorado a blank check. Don’t be tricked into believing the initial language, “without raising taxes ...” Prop...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

My humps, my humps, my lovely speedersâ€™ bumps

When I was living in Westport, Connecticut, during the 1990s, many roads feeding into the main Post Road were paved-over, 200-year-old cow trails. These roads were narrow and winding as they...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Durango: Bring back marvelous parades

In the past, there were parade entrants that packed the south side of East 3rd Avenue with numerous trailers of decked-out horses and riders, outfitters with their string of mules, dozens of...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Endorsements: Propositions DD is easy. CC is a little harder.

One proposition on your ballot takes a little thought; the other, not so much

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

This park is a disaster waiting to happen

I was out at Santa Rita Park with my young son and while playing I noticed something terrifying. There was traffic buzzing by at 50 mph and this park has absolutely no traffic bar...

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This whole homeless camp is ludicrous

Regarding the cleanup for the homeless camp: Really? This is ridiculous! It will be trashed and nasty in less than a month. And a homeless camp? Really? The idea of thi...

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

What if we’re pouring time and money into the wrong solutions?

‘Homelessness’ may be worsening because we think it’s all about homes

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Partisan Herald wants to negate votes

The Herald’s Oct. 4 editorial (“ “Appearing to seek”? The president should be impeached not because he did something (show us in the transcript where), but because he “appeared” to do somet...

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: President is a communist sympathizer

So, let me get this straight. It’s OK for the president of the United States to encourage foreign governments, including a Communist dictatorship, to interfere in our national elections by d...

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Base fluoride policy on science, please

Jim Forleo, in a recent letter, proposes, once again, to end all public water fluoridation in Durango based on a small study recently reported in the Journal of the American Medical Associat...

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

David Brooks: Why some Trump voters are holding on (for dear life)

An imagined conversation between Flyover Man and Urban Guy. URBAN GUY: I hope you read the rough transcript of that Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president. Trump clearly us...

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns