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DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

And so much for Durango city planning

There are 75 acres of shovel-ready acreage for a community park, complete with public pool, pickle ball courts and soccer fields, in the Three Springs subdivision, well within Durango city l...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We appreciate these wildlife protections

With quickly growing populations, increased development and more frequent traffic and wildlife interactions, I give Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis kudos for making wildlife corridors and habita...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Lessons at most progressive and American school

SEDONA, Ariz. – As a government official in World War II, Hamilton Warren was outraged to learn that a black colleague made half as much as his white peers. So, after the war, the...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Let’s put partisan politics aside on this

Thank you, Durango Herald, for your editorial Aug. 21, “ You are now comfortably acknowledging the cause is human emissions of carbon in the atmosphere. Of course, there are natural occurre...

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald editorials are irrelevant, fearful

Local media is an extremely important source of the news we all need to be informed citizens. I’m a longtime Durango Herald subscriber and supporter. I understand the need to redu...

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Who’s calling me?

Our long national nightmare with robocall scammers might be over

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Trump’s presidency not unfolding, it’s unraveling

WASHINGTON – Historians studying the Trump presidency will have a prodigious amount of material that demands examination but defies explanation. The president’s Aug. 21, half-hour, South Law...

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

Tell the mayor to protect pedestrians

Please call the mayor at 759-6477 to insist the City Council fund in the 2020 budget the long-planned-for bridge for pedestrian and bike safety to finish the north extension of the Animas Ri...

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Not just a machine, he’s the Lamborghini of gaffes

WASHINGTON – There is no surer way to convince people you are going nuts than to stand in front of a crowd and announce that you are not going nuts. “I want to be clear: I’m not g...

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Here’s how we’ll choose our next city manager

During a city council meeting on Aug. 20, City Manager Ron LeBlanc announced his retirement after almost 12 years of service. Although his announcement took City Council by surpri...

DATE: Aug 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Tell council to budget for climate action

We face the ultimate emergency in climate change – extinction. Once the climate is tipped, no human actions will prevent the release of millions of tons of trapped methane, resulting in coll...

DATE: Aug 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor