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New Council and fresh restart for city

Spring has arrived in Durango and change is in the air. Mother Nature delivered both negatives and positives this past year, with a devastating drought and a wildfire that raged f...

DATE: Apr 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Jeff Mannix can help us to get greener

As the La Plata Electric Association election approaches, I’m struck by two things that I recently learned. First, the 7.35 cents that LPEA paid to buy one kilowatt hour of electricity from ...

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

What caused the financial crisis? Our success

WASHINGTON – It is astonishing that even though the global financial crisis occurred a decade ago, we do not yet have a clear and convincing explanation of its basic cause. Theori...

DATE: Apr 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Herald should leave First Family alone

The last time the media took a cheap shot at a sitting president’s children, Harry Truman threatened to punch a Washington Post critic in the nose over a review of daughter Margaret Truman’s...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Join us to stop immigrant deportations

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been targeting and apprehending valued members of our community. A year after Bayfield resident Edin Ramos was separated from his family an...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

What is torture: Immigration protesters might give it some thought

It impoverishes the meaning to say that it is any form of detention

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

On the border, for Trump, the Pottery Barn rule

WASHINGTON – President Trump is right. There’s a crisis on the southern border. The existence of the crisis is as obvious as its cause: Trump. He didn’t single-handedly create thi...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Mannix, Turner will save us from Tri-State

The energy economy is shifting rapidly with the cost of renewables plummeting and the price of coal steadily creeping up. Unfortunately, although Southwest Colorado is prime territory for so...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Now the Herald is taking comics hostage

The new format on the Sunday games page is somewhat of an improvement. I nearly went blind trying to read the crossword definitions before, now they’re the same size as the weekday puzzles. ...

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

Yes, you finally made the puzzles bigger!

Reference is made to a letter sent to your publication by a reader regarding the recent changes made by the Herald, whereby the puzzles were enlarged allowing for easier reading of clues and...

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