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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...

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

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

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...

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...

Take this thing from my paw

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

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...

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...

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...

Editorial cartoons

Colorado ICE protests mirror Trump bluster

Immigration protesters raise Mexico’s colors over Colorado ICE center

Somewhere, in a distant galaxy, a train...

Karen sits on the bench while her husband Jack takes their ticket numbers to the window. They have waited three years for their numbers to rise on the waiting list and now here they are, jus...

More than one factor started 416 Fire

Regarding “ My professor asked: “Does an acorn cause an oak?” After much discussion it was concluded that an acorn was necessary to yield an oak but it alone was not sufficient. ...