Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

Do the right thing: Vote ‘yes’ on 1A

I am fortunate to have grown up in Durango and to have returned in 1976 for my 10th class reunion and, coincidentally, a new job. Lucky me! Since the 1990s, we, as taxpayers, have had oil an...

DATE: Nov 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Protect families, demand accountability from ICE

Politics has nothing to do with ICE’s recent behavior in Durango. Despite our differences, we have traditionally treated each other with care and respect. We need to unite in asking our elec...

DATE: Nov 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Student voices concern over unjust treatment, ICE detentions

My name is Emmett Kane, I am in eighth grade at Mountain Middle School. I am writing this because I am concerned about how ICE agents detained children who are my age in Durango. I don’t und...

DATE: Oct 31, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Fix Our Forests Act supports wildfire prevention

Communities in every corner of the country – especially those in Western Colorado – have felt the heavy consequences of intense wildfire seasons. Bipartisan legislation like the Fix Our Fore...

DATE: Oct 31, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

All athletes deserve a ride

I am writing as a concerned parent to express my deep disappointment regarding the ongoing lack of transportation for away games across Durango’s middle school athletic programs. This has pl...

DATE: Oct 31, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The Patriotic Way

Ladies and gentlement: in 1960, when I started school in Wichita Falls, it was on the Air Force Base, so I was shielded, what with its being integrated, from much of what Jim Crow meant in t...

DATE: Oct 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Confusing Durango’s Catholic parishes and schools

The editorial “Compassion in Action,” (Herald, Oct. 26) seems to confuse our Catholic dioceses. While your support of the warming center located at Sacred Heart parish hall is welcome, your ...

DATE: Oct 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Renew governance through kindness, not war

As I grieve the thousands of immigrants – and some citizens – languishing in unregulated detention centers after sudden and sometimes violent detentions, I long for one thing: A revolution, ...

DATE: Oct 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Disappointed in our Supreme Court

To the Editors of the Tri City Record, I write with deep concern about recent Supreme Court decisions that appear to expand presidential power beyond constitutional limits. The grant of immu...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Rising property values don’t offset losses

After a lifetime in La Plata County, I was sure I had the budget figured out. Property values keep going up, therefore county revenues go up with them, right? Surely this more than offsets t...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Southwest Colorado deserves answers on health care

What does Rep. Hurd think about health care and the government shutdown? Who knows. Hurd certainly does not communicate much on these subjects to his constituents. The nonpartisan Congressio...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump and Putin want the same thing

It’s intuitively obvious to casual observers around our shared planet that Vlad Putin and Donald J. Trump want the same thing: the elimination of the good old USA. Is there any other answer ...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor