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We need CORE act; accept no substitute

I bought my first mountain bike when I moved to Durango. Since then, I have developed a passion for the sport and a deep appreciation for the unique and beautiful public lands upon which I h...

We need a proper sculpture over here

This is a sore subject that I hate to revisit, but it concerns a replacement for the disastrous rock sculpture which stood at the intersection of routes 550 and 160. Isn’t it ti...

In Hong Kong, playing tennis with gas grenades

HONG KONG – President Donald Trump has called the pro-democracy protests here “riots,” and China has in effect denounced participants as terrorists. Yet even when chaos reigns dur...

‘Do-gooders’ let the homeless take over

There has been a good deal of newsprint in the Herald about the homeless camps in and around Durango, and not a whole lot about what is being done or can be done about them. Our wise City Co...

Round the world

Sixty years ago, Nixon went to Russia and the Herald was in on the action

Health care: We need to demand more

Last fall I met a retired couple living nearby in an RV. Their daughter had contracted a debilitating disease requiring costly treatments. Although they had health care insurance, their daug...

Another piece of our paradise vanishes

The lungs of the Earth are burning. I grieve this catastrophe in the beautiful Amazon. Like the Icelandic glacier the Herald cited in “So long, old ice” (Aug. 21), another piece o...

Why do you gripe about these editorials?

Why does an editorial have to be political? Recent complaints about “irrelevant” editorials are a thinly disguised request for the Herald to return to strident, snarky, political ...

I’ll be deciding what matters, thank you

I have been a Durango Herald subscriber for 30 years and the primary reason I get it is for local news. We can get national and world news other places. So many of the ...

That’s the spirit

Michael Bennet vows to hang on

Editorial cartoons

Merciless policies imposed on hospital

At a recent visit to Mercy for a radiologic procedure, my wife was presented with an estimate of out-of-pocket expenses and told it needed to be paid prior to services being provided. ...