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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Michael Gerson: We have an American president who doesn’t understand America

WASHINGTON – One of the puzzling aspects of Donald Trump’s hyper-nationalism is its consistent denigration of the nation itself. In a 2017 Oval Office conversation between Trump, ...

This is no time to bring more wolves

In the last several weeks, there have been at least two wild animal-human confrontations in Colorado, resulting in serious injuries to a 9-year-old boy in one case. In May this ye...

Our view: Proposed city budget raises questions

City staff proposed a 2020 budget to Durango City Council last week (“ Did you hear about the study performed by consultants hired by staffers that found the staffers were overpaid? ...

Open carry was not ‘well regulated’

Congratulations to the national retailers that will no longer welcome into their stores folks who openly brandish guns. Three of our local stores are affected by this decision and I welcome ...