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Thanks for coming to Secret Garden

The Durango Arts Center’s staff and board wish to express our tremendous gratitude to all who attended the Aug. 29 concert in the Rochester Hotel’s luscious Secret Garden! Sponsor...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Some states too friendly to livestock

It’s probably not a shock to Americans that Nebraska is a “livestock-friendly” state. Real-life cowboys in the mold of Robert Duvall’s “Lonesome Dove” character “Gus” McCrae and Clint Eastwo...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Drought, warming change our colors

Autumn comes a little sooner this year, and with a note of tragedy

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

The Times called an audible and fumbled

The publication of an anonymous column hurts more than the president

DATE: Sep 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Mainstream news is not propaganda

In a letter to the Herald (“One giant, coordinated primal whine,” Aug. 23), Virgil R. Pulliam recommends that readers “Cross check Washington Post and New York Times articles and the daily r...

DATE: Sep 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Extensive study shows, fortunately, no lasting impacts from Gold King spill

Aesop gets the credit for telling us that “appearances are often deceiving.” That he said it over 2,500 years ago should have left plenty of time for the lesson to sink in. The r...

DATE: Sep 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

It happened to me and I left Durango

I had a similar experience to the folks in “When I saw the yellow envelope, I saw red” (Aug. 24). I was parked in the last spot on the west side of Main Avenue near the intersection of 11th ...

DATE: Sep 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Douthat: Will Democrats own the Asian-American vote?

This past week, the Trump Justice Department threw its weight behind a high-profile lawsuit against Harvard University, in which a group of Asian-American plaintiffs claim – with a great dea...

DATE: Sep 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

McCain found morality in a dark place, and brought it to a bright career

John McCain’s years of captivity in Hanoi, held by the North Vietnamese after his plane was hit by a missile, rightly became one of the centerpieces of his life. His resistance to his captor...

DATE: Sep 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Zimmerman: Corporate interests compromise the Interior Department

What if I told you that a multibillion-dollar company decided to trademark the name of one of America’s most prized national parks? And that the company then sued the United Stat...

DATE: Sep 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Dear Sen. McCain, you will be missed

Senator McCain, I was never a member of your political party, I often disagreed with your ideas and I would not have voted for you as president. However, I do admire your character and the m...

DATE: Sep 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Attacks on my husband are undignified

I take offense to the underhanded attempts to demean my husband’s character last week by Leah Karotkin (“Local candidates’ bad behavior annoys,” Herald, Aug. 21) and Laurie Meininger (“Misog...

DATE: Sep 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.