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Bipartisan effort on climate change

This summer, our Western Slope congressional delegation has been working across the aisle on practical, bipartisan solutions to address climate change. Last week, Rep. Scott Tipto...

DATE: Aug 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Good old Joe

A great book may tell us all we need to know about Candidate Biden

DATE: Aug 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

We know Medicare works – expand it

The 54th anniversary of Medicare affords an opportunity to evaluate the successes and shortcomings of the system of healthcare in America. I have worked in rural hospitals and cli...

DATE: Aug 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Dem chair doesn’t care about the nation

Carol Cure’s letter in the July 30 edition of the Herald (“ First off, Ms. Cure is the chair of La Plata County Democrats. Claiming that President Trump threw a wrench into the n...

DATE: Aug 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Environmentalists needlessly delay development

I am writing with regard to the recent developments with the Village at Wolf Creek, and because I have received a number of inquiries on the subject. The history of this project i...

DATE: Aug 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter about racism was bigoted, hateful

Today I read a vitriolic letter of hate and bigotry in your “Letters to the Editor” section regarding folks from the South, referring to us as “racist”, “stupid,” “greedy” and “traitors” (“ ...

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

Foreign policy is a domestic issue in Colorado

Conventional wisdom says voters don’t care about foreign policy. But conventional wisdom is wrong. Because foreign policy touches most everything we Coloradans worry about here at home. ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

President Trump is tearing America apart

Trump’s remarks towards elected lawmakers who differ from him shows just how un-American he is. The freedom to criticize your country and its government is the most American thing you can do...

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

You should not have printed anything

Speaking as a proud, eleventh-generation curmudgeon, please stop printing The Durango Herald (“ Like the great Marx – no, Groucho, not Karl! – whatever it is, I’m against it. Peo...

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

President Trump lets his followers off the hook

When a president orders up a special script, summons the national media and sends a message to all Americans that the “sinister ideologies” of “racism, bigotry and white supremacy” have no p...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Colorado law not well understood

Counties against ‘red flag’ law might want to reconsider their position

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Parks and Rec: You don’t care about us

In a recent edition of The Durango Herald, the one article that caught my attention concerned the outrageous budget of the Parks and Recreation Department (“ So much money to fund a city de...

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