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Letters: They use the virus to divide and weaken us

Five-eighths of the baseball season was sacrificed to the coronavirus, but basketball and football have sacrificed nothing. There’s a double standard. Basketball and football are ...

DATE: Nov 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: The coming mandatory vaccine debate

As mandatory vaccinations for school children was approved in the 2020 Colorado Assembly, the issue of mandatory vaccinations for adults may be on the legislative wish list in 2021. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: An apple and a simple act of kindness

I’m 82 and, using my cane, I walk my Lab every morning. We pass a neighbor’s apple tree. Some of the apples are within reach of my cane, which I use to knock one down. I was picking up my ap...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bret Stephens: How the Times lost its way on the 1619 project

If there’s one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to In some ways, this ambition succeeded. The 1619 Project introduced a date, previously obscure to most Americans...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Herald’s COVID editorial cartoon divisive

I am very disappointed that Cindy Kraushaar Durango ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Black Lives Matter is good for schools

I am disappointed to learn about the current directive from the 9-R superintendent banning the wearing of clothing affirming human rights statements, in particular, Black Lives Matter. Those...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Jamelle Bouie: We waited for a repudiation that never came

The liberal hope for the 2020 presidential election was a repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It is no longer on the table. A Joe Biden win, if it happens, will ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: In harsh city, a dream of shared land

I often have excuses that keep me from loving this place. It costs too much, there aren’t jobs, it feels superficial. I want a way to be here and not feel like I’m in survival mode. I dream ...

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: This indoctrination in Durango schools

One of the interesting points about the climate change rally held by Miller School attendees was that there was such a strong belief in climate change, a nationally debatable topic. Who is t...

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Approval voting could solve our problems

Everyone is familiar with plurality, our current voting method. It’s how we elect our governor and our state representatives. It has the advantage of being simple, but the disadvantage of no...

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: In national elections, it could always be worse

Getting a President Biden, if we do, will not alter the faces of America

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: What Colorado voters were thinking

Lauren Boebert’s win was predictable; voters on taxes should have been

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday