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This is modern natural family planning

In 1965, I visited a medical meeting where an Australian couple, both physicians, advocated a new natural family planning method. The Doctors Billings claimed their method was ver...

DATE: Apr 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Blame climate change, not polar bears

It’s been a long time, but I just couldn’t pass up a chance to respond to Mike Sigman’s letter regarding walruses plunging to their deaths (“ It is completely obvious that Sigman has not se...

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Republicans are afraid of everything

It is amazing to watch the supporters behind President Donald Trump at his rallies. They look like an all-white rendition of the Village People with their moronic costumes and behavior. Ever...

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We must do better on school lunch

We need to work together to stop school lunch shaming. At a Durango middle school last week, a hand-written sign in the cafeteria that troubled me said “Kiddos – partial lunch wi...

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the State House

Clear choices

Keep incumbents in LPEA elections – and applaud Maria’s Bookshop

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Your press awards were well deserved

Congratulations are due to Mary Shinn, Jerry McBride and all of the rest of The Durango Herald staff on their recent awards (“ We have recently moved to Durango and absolutely love reading ...

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Assaults on central banks will leave us naked

NEW YORK – Around the democratic world, there is a struggle taking place that might end up the most damaging and long-lasting consequence of this era of populism. Elected leaders ...

DATE: Apr 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Fareed Zakaria

This is government service at its finest

On Tax Day, I went to the post office to mail my compulsory tax bill. On the front door a sign read: mail received after 3 p.m. will be postmarked the next day. Hmm? Wh...

DATE: Apr 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Forget ‘Nancy,’ more Gary Markstein

OK, you’ve decided to rid we old comic lovers of some of our favorites, but... “Nancy”? Seriously? How far back did you have to search for that old comic strip? Take away Doonesbu...

DATE: Apr 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

No lunch for you: School district can’t leave well enough alone

9-R school district seems to prefer hungry children to good Samaritans

DATE: Apr 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Jeff Mannix can save us from Tri-State

A little over a century ago an orphan from Italy came to America to mine coal in Western Pennsylvania. It was an opportunity for a better life for him and his family but it was also his deat...

DATE: Apr 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor