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The face of Michelangelo’s David could guide us

FLORENCE – A tourist in Florentine museums is like a skipping stone above unfathomable depths. Here a Botticelli. There a Donatello. A single room at the Uffizi that would reward ...

DATE: Dec 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

Guys, enough war – or it’s the asteroid

The Gulf War in Iraq, under President George H. W. Bush, in 1991, had about 100 U.S. military casualties. The global community was relieved that this ended in a very short period of time and...

DATE: Dec 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

In his Nov. 9 Herald column, Andrew Gulliford wonders, “ He states that the last wolf in Colorado was killed 70 to 80 years ago. That’s long enough for people to forget that wolves sometime...

DATE: Dec 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Criticism of Snowberger has petty tone

I can’t help but notice that the recent barrage of stories, letters, and editorials about Dan Snowberger and the Board of Education have taken an increasingly petty tone. As a dis...

DATE: Dec 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

America’s post-Christian future

Here are some generally agreed-upon facts about religious trends in the United States. Institutional Christianity has weakened drastically since the 1960s. Lots of people who once...

DATE: Dec 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Grim for grouse?

Recent moves to open BLM land to drilling could harm the bird’s chances

DATE: Dec 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Herald, 9R parents should step back

I am writing to express my support for Superintendent Dan Snowberger and my former colleagues on the Durango 9-R School Board. Snowberger has worked tirelessly over the last seven...

DATE: Dec 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

For Trump, it could be the presidency or prison

Donald Trump – or, as he’s known to federal prosecutors, Individual-1 – might well be a criminal. That’s no longer just my opinion, or that of Democratic activists. It is the find...

DATE: Dec 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

We need to resist alarmism on climate

For the 25th straight year we’ve been warned that if we don’t make drastic changes the world will be at its tipping point within 10 years and it will “implode.” This year’s elite globalist r...

DATE: Dec 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Why we gather

“Into The Wild” is a musical now, which we have some trouble comprehending

DATE: Dec 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Jingle bell soul

Holiday tunes that haven’t worn out their welcome? We’ve got you covered.

DATE: Dec 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Quit draining same sources for funds

The defeat of the 2A tax issue in November was not a NO vote for police, streets and infrastructure but a “no confidence” vote on the way the city is run. I attended the “Wicked P...

DATE: Dec 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor