Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

Times columnist is ignorant of the facts

I want to express my appreciation to the Herald editorial board for printing an opinion column that is proof positive that media bias is alive and well. New York Times columnist ...

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Legislators must act on plastic pollution

Colorado waterways are under threat from harmful plastic pollution. One of the worst forms of these products is Styrofoam (polystyrene), and Americans throw away an estimated 70 m...

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A despicable cartoon in The New York Times

Anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but last Thursday, the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it. Except th...

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

High CEO pay, no lunch, we need change

The April 25 Herald editorial on hungry middle school kids caught my attention (“ Hypocrisy in our world! Women with unwanted pregnancies are forbidden by lawmakers, dictated to by religiou...

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

It’s just country: And it’s all good

It’s been two decades since Lucinda Williams recorded her classic album

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Candidates ignore cost of an aging population

WASHINGTON – Just for the record, we ought to note that trustees for Social Security and Medicare recently released their annual reports. The two programs alone constituted 45 pe...

DATE: May 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Greg Ryder leaves a hole in our hearts

What Greg Ryder means to us (“ His absolute love and adoration of his wife Julie. His love of his kitty cats. Being one of the best skiers on the mountain. Golf. Music. We live i...

DATE: May 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald waves patriarchal torture finger

The Herald’s April 18 editorial (“ The editorial board called out one protester’s sign [“Detention is Torture”] that I read as an announcement that the intentional suffering caused by deten...

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

Court packing: Seldom a good idea

It might have worked for FDR but we will need a better plan now

DATE: Apr 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Rituals comfort by reminding us we’re not alone

Recently I’ve been playing a game in my head called “There should be a ritual for...” There should be a ritual for when a felon has finished his sentence and is welcomed back whol...

DATE: Apr 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Scott Tipton must get tough with Trump

I hope Rep. Scott Tipton has spent the hours I have today reading for himself the Mueller Report. No reasonable person can deny the Russians did not just “try to meddle in the 2016 election,...

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

Gardner is deluded on Green New Deal

Few statements are more revealing than when someone in Sen. Cory Gardner’s position submits a wandering diatribe slamming everything from the Green New Deal to recent Colorado legislation fo...

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