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Hollis Walker
Position: Opinion editor
Email: hwalker@durangoherald.com
Phone Number: (970), 375-4522

public editorial board meeting

Please join The Durango Herald editorial board for its public session from 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, at 81301 Coffee Inc., 3101 Main Ave., Durango. The editorial board will ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Sunshine Week

Shine a light on government efforts to hide from the citizenry

DATE: Mar 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Water study could help answer key question

Water is the lifeblood of Colorado’s economy and environment. The Western Slope of Colorado is being pulled from at least two directions: water demands from the downstream states of Californ...

DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Final State Water Plan must include specifics

By Gail H. Klapper Colorado Forum Last December, Coloradans got their first look at a draft of the Colorado Water Plan, which Gov. John Hickenlooper requested by execut...

DATE: Mar 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Legislature wrong to defund driver’s licenses

We believe that the 2015 Colorado Legislature is veering off course by limiting funding for offices, which issue driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. Despite passage in 2013 of a...

DATE: Mar 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

‘Yes’ to Question 1-A

Vote to extend 1/2 -cent sales tax and keep Durango healthy

DATE: Mar 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Comparing ‘animal rights’ versus ‘animal welfare’

Anyone interested in the condition and treatment of animals often gets labelled as an “animal rights” activist. However, arguments for animal rights are separate and different from arguments...

DATE: Mar 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Divided Legislature prompts lively debate

We’re heading into the midway point of the 2015 legislative session, which gives me a moment to pause and reflect on how things are going. With the divided Legislature, as predi...

DATE: Mar 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Ongoing Great Depression led news of 1937

It seemed for some people that The Great Depression would never end despite what the local, state and federal governments were doing. Life went on as opposition mounted to some of the New De...

DATE: Feb 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Good neighbors

Colorado’s responsible energy development goes the extra mile

DATE: Feb 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

EPA regs would jeopardize power supply

The clash between environmental and energy reality versus idealism reached a crossroads in Denver last week when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission convened a technical conference on W...

DATE: Feb 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Time to address our deteriorating roads

As I write this column, on this cold Monday morning, the Capitol completely is void of people. There is a little snow in the Mile High City, so the General Assembly will not be in session. I...

DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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