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‘Vote ‘yes’ to fund the BID’

We should be wary any time a proposal for implementing, increasing or extending a tax comes across our ballots. This year, businesses, residents and property owners in the Central Business D...

‘Street created for strolling now a thoroughfare’

​A special thanks to Bill Roberts for his recent guest column that recognized East Third Avenue (the Boulevard) was designed for people, not cars. His suggestion to return it to a place wher...

Malfunction Junction: ‘Leave it be’

I think the dovish drivers require behavior modification not the well-engineered traffic roundabout on Florida Road. These traffic flow enhancements are everywhere today. Only Durango has a ...

‘Prop. HH a bait-and-switch’

Did you know that the Colorado government does not need the voters’ permission to lower taxes; only raise them? This raises the question, “Why do we need Proposition HH?” The answer? Because...

‘Natural gas bill to go up 14%’: Why?

I would assume that The Durango Herald knows we do not get our energy from Excel and have to wonder why it ran the article “Energy bills should be lower this year.” After all, this article r...

‘Steps to discourage crosstown traffic'

I agree with the ideas in Bill Roberts guest column on Oct. 20 about trying out blocking the connection between 15th Street/Florida Road and East Third Avenue. I especially liked the idea of...

‘Luxury of dreaming about a puppy’

Injustice breeds resentment, and resentment has exploded in Israel in the most horrific manner. The cruelty of the Hamas attack is almost beyond comprehension. Israel’s response will become ...

Odds of disease almost like ‘flipping coin’

According to the American Cancer Society, the risk of developing cancer at some point is about 40% for men and women. In addition, the National Institutes of Health says “approximately 45% s...

‘Laws are there – to be enforced!’

Why are the police and state patrol not enforcing the law in regard to expired vehicle registration tags on license plates? For quite a while now, I have been seeing tags that are more than ...

‘Gaza will become a Jewish settlement’

Already in the U.S., there have been violent deaths associated with the Israel invasion: a Muslim 6-year-old stabbed to death with his grieving mother just out of the hospital from multiple ...

‘When I complained to USPS, stonewalled’

I live in a rural area with mailboxes on the road. The postal delivery I have experienced is dismal. For example, squeezing packages into my mailbox that don’t fit, whereby I’ve had to use p...

‘Set aside differences, fix streetlight’

On Sept. 14, 2023, Katie Marie Siegrist, 27, was walking her dog along Animas View Drive near the United Campground of Durango. Struck from behind by a black 1987 Jeep, Siegrist succumbed to...