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Our View: Seed, plant exchanges share much wisdom

As we stuff our Opinion section with commentaries of the day – our own editorial pages inside news pages crowded with noteworthy stories – the particulars about seed exchanges are often side...

Thank you, poets

We appreciate all that readers shared on their minds in April for National Poetry Month, which honors and celebrates poets and their craft. Our 250-word count – the same for letters – can be...

‘Herald missed story’ on Bayfield election

That MAGA-type politics have seeped into local nonpartisan elections is alarming. Apparently, in some people’s minds, the Bayfield Town Board election was about “us and them.” Well, there ...

Our View: Share what’s appropriate in hiring public health director

On Monday, the Board of Health, which oversees the new La Plata County Public Health, exited an hourlong executive session before publicly voting unanimously to restart the director recruitm...

Our View: Southwest residents too vulnerable in Anthem, CommonSpirit impasse

A news story on Wednesday in The Durango Herald captured the plight of a Durango family, the Hunters, snagged between health insurer Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and CommonSpirit Health, ow...

Our View: Unsure whether student demonstrations will be historical markers in Gaza War

There’s an old joke that makes room for college students to try on and explore who they are. Oftentimes, that means participating in political protests on campuses. The joke goes like this: ...

Our View: Clarification first on 1984 Act in annexation talks

Tribe, city reference same legislation

Our View: Secretary Griswold can show more restraint

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has not held back comments about Donald Trump, calling him an insurrectionist in tweets, on MSNBC and CNN. She’s connected her criticism of him to d...

My View: Notes from Rocky’s newsroom during Columbine

I worked at the former Rocky Mountain News in Denver when on April 20, 1999, at 11:23 a.m., a dispatcher on our scratchy police scanner said: “Shots in the building. Female down.” This would...

Our View: What will it take to fund La Plata’s roads and bridges?

If cultural references give perspective to when La Plata County’s 8.5 mill levy was approved in 1991, the movies “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of t...

Our View: 420 events mark evolution of marijuana movement

Before Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, 2014, cannabis enthusiasts’ annual, iconic holiday on April 20, to ritualistically gather in public and smoke marijuana at...

Our View: Kim Martin’s columns touch those affected by Alzheimer’s

Some of the most frequent comments we receive have to do with relating to local Kim Martin’s guest columns about her personal journey and experiences after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s i...
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