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Letter: Moving golf course for affordable housing makes sense

Bravo to Relocating the golf course to provide for in-town affordable housing would truly set Durango and the county on a long-term path toward sustainability. In-town housing a...

DATE: Mar 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Escalante students enjoy newspaper encounter

My name is Lindsay Dalton. I teach 6th Grade Language Arts at Escalante Middle School. I recently provided a Durango Herald for each of the students in my class so they could rea...

DATE: Mar 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Open space conservancy helps preserve family heritage

A few years ago, my family and I visited some places that were important in the life of my father. “Memory Lane” took us out to Marvel, where my father pointed out an old cabin where he live...

DATE: Mar 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Dan Harms: How reliable is our power supply in Southwest Colorado?

It has been an epic month for the national power grid, with severe weather causing rolling blackouts in Texas and widespread power outages across the United States. In the wake of...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Charles Blow: Four great migrations are underway

The humanitarian and infrastructure disaster that followed Texas’ winter storm illustrates that catastrophic weather events may soon become less freak occurrences and more part of an unremit...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Retain Youssef on City Council

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,” the boxer Mike Tyson once said. Melissa Youssef joined Durango City Council four years ago with an impressive catalogue of innovati...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Jenn Lopez: Calling for a bold, comprehensive affordable housing strategy

I can trace my career in affordable housing back to 1994 when I was a junior at Fort Lewis College and began plotting my permanent residency in Durango. Once I learned that the m...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Our View: Motel conversions could help ease housing shortage

Wanted: One or more developers to buy, renovate and repurpose Durango motels now on the market into affordable housing units in the next 18 months-two years. Must be patient and flexible, an...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letter: What’s happened to Durango?

What has happened to my country? More specifically, what has happened to Durango? Last summer, camo-clad, flag-waving, armed counter-protesters threatened Black Lives Matter prot...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: No jail time for sex offender is outrageous

No jail time for an offender (Feb. 20, “ In the interest of full disclosure, I will begin by saying that I am a retired sex offender treatment provider and a retired domestic violence treat...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Government instills fear to control, manipulate

Local, state and now even the federal government has doubled down on the use of fear to control, manipulate and suppress the American public. The sight of all people wearing mask...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor