Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

If D.C. can go green, America can do it

Washington, D.C. became the only jurisdiction in North America that has enacted a concrete, mandatory, detailed, comprehensive law to reduce emissions at a pace compatible with keeping globa...

DATE: Mar 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Take a bow, local snowplow drivers!

Glad to see some thanks from Suzanne Parker’s letter entitled “ Having lived here 20 years, this year was the most snow we have seen since February, 2008. I have had four plow trucks. I am ...

DATE: Mar 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Homeless can stand downtown all day

Wow! The Herald made some incredibly amazing connections in its “ The Herald says that the city’s decision to prohibit sandwich board signs downtown is equivalent to the decision made by th...

DATE: Mar 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Collaboration is key to protecting our waterways

As we enter the latter half of snow season, those of us whose work or whose livelihoods depend on our healthy waterways are closely tracking snowpack, as well as how much runoff we can expec...

DATE: Mar 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Electoral alarm: No one is stealing your vote yet

National Popular Vote has Democrats and Republicans shooting from the hip

DATE: Mar 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Mar 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

City: Stop trying to raise the sales tax

Dear city of Durango, please, take my money. Raise my property tax. Each year my house is magically worth an additional $15,000; the average amount it has appreciated the past 15 years. I an...

DATE: Mar 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Here’s to women and men in business

The great screenwriter Nora Ephron, once wrote: “I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of th...

DATE: Mar 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This ‘gun sanctuary’ won’t get my money

Now that Montezuma County commissioners have declared the county a gun sanctuary, on my bi-monthly drives through, I will no longer be spending my money at the Safeway, City Market, the gas ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

MAGA is spent – unless you’re an adolescent

WASHINGTON – Humans do the strangest things. In two recent why-dunits, the curious have wondered why: (1) a successful TV star would allegedly orchestrate a fake, hate-inspired at...

DATE: Mar 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

City tax hike is preventive maintenance

Understanding the truth can be difficult today. Winston Churchill said “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” This got me thinkin...

DATE: Mar 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor