Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

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

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, ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

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...

DATE: Oct 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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? ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

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 ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Clint McKnight: Let Democrats lead on wilderness protections

Colorado’s cherished wild landscapes are something to celebrate but nothing to take for granted. We will lose them if we don’t act boldly to protect both the land and the wildlife...

DATE: Oct 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Democrats want to take your freedoms

Democratic candidates and two of their fawning opinion television stations recently burned the midnight oil to condemn oil. Their “catastrophic climate change” statements were dec...

DATE: Oct 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Kate Greenberg: Water weaves the tapestry that binds us together

As I drove to the Yampa Valley in August to attend a water conference in Steamboat Springs, the sun blazed down hot, the late wildflowers still bloomed in the high country and the aspens had...

DATE: Oct 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Instruction in reading must continue

Mary Shinn’s reporting on the comments made recently by Colorado State Board of Education member Joyce Rankin at Needham Elementary is worthy of thoughtful consideration (“ It is disappoint...

DATE: Oct 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Sen. Michael Bennet: We can act now to end surprise medical bills

Don Binetti is a Coloradan with health insurance. Three years ago, a life-threatening clot was discovered in his aortic valve, requiring him to be rushed to the hospital for emergency treatm...

DATE: Oct 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Guns make us safer and we have proof

Maine has just been designated as the No. 1 safest state in the nation. Vermont held this illustrious honor for several years, but they’re fine with it. Since 2015, residents of M...

DATE: Oct 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor