Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

Just how long has this been going on?

The editorials in the paper have taken a wonderful turn for the better in recent weeks. I used to expect a predictable viewpoint, a liberal and politically Democratic slant to any...

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

No one throws shade on sweet Durango

In response to Victor Straub (“ Your remarks regarding snowplow drivers in our happy, sweet little town are way out of line. Asking “Did some of the plow people have the night off so they c...

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

Hold your tongue, now, it’s a snowy town

With the snow that Durango has received, everyone needs to take a deep breath and take it easy. Don’t only slow down with your driving, but with your remarks. This is a small rural town. ...

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

Downy sweep

A morning walk in fresh snowfall can say more than the best poetry or prose

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

It’s not a choice of bike paths or street repairs

The City coffers are lean for road repairs, a new police station and other basics, yet there appears to be an abundance of funds for recreation programs. Given the number, variety...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Dennis Johnson was one of the greats

I just read of Dennis Johnson’s passing (“ One summer, late 1960s, I worked the Diamond Circle Theatre. Dennis would do”Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Good-bye, or ”The Cremation of Sam McGee, every ni...

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

This isn’t warming, it’s global cooling

What causes Earth’s weather? It is not the ocean currents and not CO2 – it is the sun. Don’t take my word for it, though. Google “geologic climate change” and you will find that i...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Licenses for undocumented immigrants

As our new legislative cycle and year begins, I hope our state lawmakers make expanding access to driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants their top priority. This would benefit all Col...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Socialism not the answer to anything

Is Socialism the Answer? “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries,” Winston Churchil...

DATE: Feb 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The Vatican’s gay overlords

New book opens closets but could fuel fires

DATE: Feb 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Fight over-population denial

I first met people who denied the population problem in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development. They supported their claim that there was no population...

DATE: Feb 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters