Opinion

Stephanie Moran, who has taught at virtually every educational level, is seeking a second elected term on the School District 9-R Board of Education. Moran has made education her career, with her...

When voters see their ballots for this fall’s election, which are due to be mailed Friday, they will encounter two propositions, labeled CC and DD, which make changes to state law. CC would let the...

You may have noticed that Durango shepherded part of its small homeless population at the end of September from an area near the Tech Center, where they were not supposed to camp, to a new site...

City staff proposed a 2020 budget to Durango City Council last week (“Durango 2020 draft budget increases employee salary, library funding ,” Oct. 3), publishing it an hour before the Tuesday...

If the arguments for and against the impeachment of President Donald Trump are not countless, they feel that way, but almost none of that matters now, late in the third year of his presidency. It...

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” said the poet Wordsworth, writing of the French Revolution a decade later – which goes to show that poets are not to be trusted about politics; but the...

The Parked series of articles produced by a variety of Colorado news media, including the Herald, which appeared in print and online in the Herald last week, were devoted to the pressures that...

The drawn-out and nearly sordid drama of soon-to-be-former Durango City Manager Ron LeBlanc and the City Council finally reached a fevered pitch Tuesday and was lanced with the council voting...

You may have seen the recent series Parked: Half the American Dream the Herald has been running, about Colorado mobile home parks; it launched in the paper last Monday, and an even fuller version...

Last week, we were heartened to see that so many people – roughly 100 – crammed into the La Plata County Administration Building downtown for a hearing before the three county commissioners, and...