Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

City must accommodate cars, not bikes

I appreciate your editorial (“ I also find the proposal objectionable because it taxes us just outside the city limits, but we can’t vote on it. The majority of new residents here are retir...

DATE: Jan 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Labor’s death reports were greatly exaggerated

Something funny happened on the way to the labor movement’s funeral. When Justice Samuel Alito and his anti-labor colleagues on the Supreme Court handed down the Janus vs. AFSCME ...

DATE: Jan 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Press is ally, not enemy, of the people

On Jan. 23, the Herald printed a letter, “ It is the way of despots to muzzle the press, imprison or kill reporters and control news outlets. The press is absolutely essential to democracy,...

DATE: Jan 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Venezuela is a catastrophe – a socialist nightmare

Conspicuous by its relative absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela’s political crisis is the word “socialism.” Every sensible observer agrees that Latin Amer...

DATE: Jan 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Are we a state: Denver looks for national alignment

Democratic Senate majority moves quickly to abandon Electoral College

DATE: Jan 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Can we tax these second homes higher?

The article from Jan. 23 on home prices (“ We are recent transplants to the Durango area but know there are a number of second homes in the region, many of which are used to generate income...

DATE: Jan 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Dear lord, please don’t give us a sign

The letter from Wendy Bryant (“ Too many signs actually has the opposite of the desired effect of directing our fine citizens. One has the tendency to tune out all the clutter. R...

DATE: Jan 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Short circuit

The road to a greener tomorrow could have some profound speed bumps

DATE: Jan 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Soon President Trump will start a war

This shutdown could have been over in 30 minutes if the mother trucker-in-command would have approved a cattle-guard on our southern border. Trump would look at this and in his warped little...

DATE: Jan 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald can’t fool board on Snowberger

I have written previously about the biased and unprofessional Herald coverage of the recent Dan Snowberger/School District 9-R issues. I argued that the media should let the 9-R board do its...

DATE: Jan 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Parking enforcement has no integrity

I came out of the Rec Center to find a parking ticket on my car. To make maters worse, it was not a parking ticket! Upon inspection, the parking ticket I received was for an “expi...

DATE: Jan 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

City needs to change spending choices

The city needs to reconsider the Animas River Trail extension to Oxbow Park this year as budget shortfalls are cropping up everywhere. The put-in at Memorial Park II was just remo...

DATE: Jan 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor