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Cory Gardner must act on climate bill

If we’ve learned anything from last year’s record-breaking hurricane season, the wildfires that have scorched our beloved West, recent extreme flooding events and record heat, it’s that we n...

DATE: Jul 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Are we on the road to another Middle East war?

NEW YORK – The best illustration of the incoherence of the administration’s strategy toward Iran came last week in a White House press release. “There is little doubt that even be...

DATE: Jul 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Fareed Zakaria

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Jul 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Roadwork on Hwy 550 is self-defeating

I live north of downtown Durango and use Highway 550 on a regular basis for my commute to work in Hermosa. I must admit I am flabbergasted, bewildered and downright confused by the fact that...

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks for the snow and river graphs

Thank you to The Durango Herald for publishing both the San Juan Basin snow graph and the Animas River flow graph this spring. You met the interests of both the skiers and the raf...

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Giving it a shot: Can we force people to vaccinate?

What’s to be done when liberty and public health collide?

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

EPA is committed to mine clean-up

As the new Region 8 Administrator, I want to provide the Environmental Protection Agency’s perspective on the Durango Herald’s article published July 10, 2019, “ EPA is committed to assessi...

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Scaling Wokeback Mountain – oops, don’t fall off

WASHINGTON – I was feeling on edge. Writing a column that sparks an internecine fight among the highest-profile women in the Democratic Party is nerve-wracking. So I we...

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Maureen Dowd

Take this thing from my paw

A wound, a miracle cure and the legend of Androcles in Three Springs

DATE: Jul 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Teachers: PERA owns prison shares

Teachers, including retirees, are you aware your retirement fund, Public Employees Retirement Association, is invested in the GEO Group, which manages 69 private prisons including the Aurora...

DATE: Jul 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Immigration policies much worse than Trump’s

HAMBURG, Germany – This country has a new heroine. She is Carola Rackete, she is 31, and she is the captain of Sea Watch 3, a German NGO-operated ship that on June 12 rescued 53 d...

DATE: Jul 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Call them ‘corporate profiteering plans’

After listening to the Democratic debates, it was clear the insurance and pharmaceutical industries were acting like fog machines at a rock concert, obscuring the truth and confusing the pub...

DATE: Jul 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor