Letter did not honestly address situation

Responding to the letter by Michael Berry and Berit Palmer, ( According to Durango Police Department transcripts, an officer spoke with Tom Petit in the afternoon on that fateful day. Tom e...

Durango Chamber: Chamber should be a role model, add housing, or better yet, locate elsewhere

Durango’s Chamber of Commerce has begun the planning for a new location and building between 22th and 24nd streets on Main Avenue, adjacent to Brookside Park across from the high school. The...

Joyce: Viva The Durango Herald!

As a former Durango resident who returns every few years to visit old friends and places, I always look forward to getting a copy of The Durango Herald to read about the latest goings-on aro...

Atkinson: Breaking up with carbon, turning concern into action

According to Yale University’s Until that support and regulation come from the government, we can turn our concern into positive steps that reduce our personal carbon footprint, save money...

Editorial cartoon

Douthat: What has Mitt Romney learned?

First, some praise for Mitt Romney, who is apparently poised to run for the Senate from Utah now that Orrin Hatch has announced his retirement. The 2012 Republican presidential no...

Durango Herald: Bayfield decides to find out if town might benefit from legal pot sales

Bayfield decides to find out if town might benefit from legal pot sales

Parker: With her new role, Gretchen Carlson wins again

WASHINGTON – If karma is a b---h, then justice is a beauty queen. After recent revelations that the CEO of the Miss America Organization and its pageant scriptwriter were talking ...

A livable wage: Pathways from poverty tied to wages, living costs and, for now, outside support

Colorado’s minimum wage quietly went up on Jan. 1, as planned by the passage of Amendment 70 in November 2016 with 55.4 percent of the vote. The second of four stepped increases the ballot m...

Harrigan: La Plata County is not led by socialists

In response to George Thompson (Herald, Dec. 23), I refer Mr. Thompson to the Oxford dictionary and the definition of socialism: “a political and economic theory of social organization which...

Dougherty: Coloradan’s health and environment should not be the casualties of politics

When a deadly combination of politics, favoritism and hypocrisy are guiding our country’s environmental policy, we risk damaging not only the environment, but the confidence of the people of...

Sullivan: Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it’s a very different story.

The July email from Daniel Hastings, a Post reader who lives in Washington, was harsh: “You never have any intention of providing an unbiased or factual representation of the man or his poli...