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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

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Direct popular vote for president, yes!

In response to Peter Neds’ letter, “ Democrats are certainly not the enemy of the republic and it’s too bad Neds takes such a hateful approach to bring it up for debate. It clearly needs to...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Why is city doing this with our taxes?

The proposed Animas River Trail north extension is the wrong trail in the wrong place at the wrong cost at the wrong time. This trail is poorly designed and expensive. It involves...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This city needs to discover real ethics

I want to alert people that the city’s neighborhood meeting for comments regarding the elimination of lots size requirements for accessory dwelling units in neighborhoods EN1, 2 and 3 has be...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Time for new city funding to keep the paint fresh

Last November our ballots contained several asks for tax hikes, both local and state. In Durango, Ballot Question 2A combined property and sales tax increases to fund fire and res...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Hear Churchill roar

New biography fleshes out the mercurial and irreplaceable Winston Churchill

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Today is finally Skip the Straw Day

In 2017, a group of middle -schoolers in Michigan created National Skip the Straw Day to fight plastic pollution. National Skip the Straw Day falls on Friday, Feb. 22 this year. ...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Anti-Semitism is like cancer in the Islamic world

NEW YORK – In recent weeks, attention has focused on two freshman Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both of whom are Muslim and have made critical statements abou...

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Fareed Zakaria

Herald fails readers on news about city

I applaud the Herald’s efforts to improve media literacy. It’s important to distinguish news from opinion and fact-based journalism from fake news. So I was sorry to see “John Sim...

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

To the barricades: Blue states, including ours, take on Trump

Colorado has joined 15 states in a suit against the president. Is it a gimmick?

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Democrats are enemies of the republic

Regarding Colorado Democrats’ attempts to bypass Colorado’s Electoral College: Undermining the system given to us by the Framers demonstrates complete ignorance of our Federalist principles,...

DATE: Feb 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor