Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

What does it mean to be the world’s smartest dog, and have to say goodbye?

DATE: Jul 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Fix homelessness, ignore the experts

I propose the following to address the homelessness and transient problem in Durango: 1. The City should work with liquor stores to identify and refuse sales to the transient and ...

DATE: Jul 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Still wrong

The feds want to resume executions, starting with a white supremacist

DATE: Jul 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

I need your feedback to perfect our lands bill

Colorado’s Third Congressional District is home to some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes and open spaces. Towering mountains, vast forests, archaeological sites from hun...

DATE: Jul 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Go back where you came from, racists

Bayfield needs to address its deep racist history, and stop allowing white trash Southerners from doing deeply offensive things, like allowing the flag of traitors in Bayfield’s parades. ...

DATE: Jul 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Selling this weed killer is irresponsible

Can anyone explain why so many of our local stores are still stocking Roundup weed killer on their shelves, which must mean that locals are still purchasing it in spite of its widely publici...

DATE: Jul 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A fortunate mountain lion encounter

6:45 a.m., dawn: It sounded like a gas well decompressing, three loud “pssts,” with conviction and presence. I thought it was a bear, as I have heard many of them before. I couldn’t see what...

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

I’m rooting for Boris Johnson to salvage Britain

Boris Johnson has been Britain’s prime minister for little more than a day, and the reviews are in. He’s a disaster! A fraud! A Trumpy toff and shameless showman who won’t just be bad for th...

DATE: Jul 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

In Portland, Oregon, are they trying to help the homeless or crush them?

Cities and towns across the U.S. have been trying everything they can think of to combat homelessness lately, from building shelters to trying to outlaw it. The latter approach is like think...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

With political art, who will teach us how to feel?

My colleagues at T Magazine had a very good idea. They gathered some artists and museum curators and asked them to name the artworks that define the contemporary age – pieces created anywher...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

On streets, Durango is already ahead of the game

Can summer really be this far along already? I hope you are enjoying each and every day! In my column last month, I wrote about the Animas River Trail and how it connects our comm...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

You can help save the planet in an electric car

Last month, I wrote about the car accident that changed my wife Gail’s and my lives. I want to thank the engineers who designed the Prius; it gave up its life to save ours. We wer...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters