Summer on hold: Raging wildfires, and public land closures, define the summer of 2018

Those folks lucky enough to take full advantage of the 35th annual Animas River Days may have seen more than a water-soaked good time. They may have seen the highlight of the summ...

Leonhardt: Trump tries to destroy Western alliance

The alliance between the United States and Western Europe has accomplished great things. It won two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Then it expanded to include its former e...

Remember to pay property taxes on time

June 15 is the deadline for paying property taxes. Tax payments postmarked after June 15th will be “delinquent.” If you have a mortgage on your residential home, most likely your...

Retain Aichele: Experience in office gives incumbent the edge

The only contested local primary race is one between two candidates who want to be the Democrats’ choice for La Plata County treasurer. Some in the party are championing Tim Walsworth, who h...

Schultz: Round up parents, lose the children

This is a story about children, but first I have to tell you what happened to the adults who love them. Last week in northern Ohio, 200 or so federal immigration agents with weapo...

Using marital advice to fix our political divide

Listening to people argue about politics these days is like overhearing people in a restaurant who are in a bad marriage. They’re always trying to use disagreements to establish superiority....

PERA reform

State’s pension plan is getting worse, and teachers are suffering the most

Chain pharmacy pricing: a tough pill to swallow

If Wal-Mart tried charging five times more than local grocers for bread, milk and bananas, its customers would promptly start buying locally. Yet a new report from the Consumers Union shows ...

City’s limit on participation is deliberate

Your June 4 editorial about the three-minute public testimony limit at city council meetings starts with “We get it.” No, you don’t get it. If you did, you would see the pattern r...

Here’s why I am voting for Tim Walsworth

Allison Aichele is campaigning on her experience as La Plata County treasurer, a position she has held since January 2015. But that experience is costing us, the taxpayers, $24,0...

A red-letter day in the Durango Herald

It’s a miracle. On June 6, 2018, I experienced a real, honest-to-God miracle. For the first time in almost 29 years that I’ve lived here, I actually agreed with all four of the letters to t...

Why I’m voting for Diane Mitsch Bush

Civil rights, human rights, and the rule of law, as well as the norms of decency and civility, have taken a beating under the Republican-enabled Trump administration. Unlike (Rep.) Scott Tip...