Oil prices
Consumers may benefit, but overall economic harm may loom
DATE: Feb 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
Hollis Walker
Position: Opinion editor
Email:
hwalker@durangoherald.com
Phone Number:
(970), 375-4522
The young farmer crisis
Support the next generation producing our food supply
DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
A threat to neighborhood character, safety
We don’t have much distress about new accessory dwelling units that might be built in our neighborhoods – as long as a majority of residents support this idea, the city pro-actively enforces...
DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
Even ‘American Sniper’ trailers too close
Many people, including my family, have asked me if what is in the movie “American Sniper” is true and is it what veterans go through and what you went through. Truthfully, I have not seen th...
DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
Steampunk dystopia and the future of water, mineral law
Steampunk garb is being stored with an ungoggled eye toward future costume opportunities. The Snowdown revelry – styled in Victorian Apocalypse – is fading into mid-winter dream. Strange met...
DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
VFW post deserves community support
My husband and I, visiting from Queens, New York, look to visit Veterans of Foreign Wars posts as we travel. We were happy to find one open in Durango, especially with Christmas lights on di...
DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
Transparency is the key to working through divisive legislative debates
Moving into February, we’ve got nearly 340 bills introduced in the House and Senate. That’s probably just over half the number that will be filed before the session ends, which gives you a s...
DATE: Feb 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
State of the county
Financial sustainability is focus for 2015
DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
‘Buy campaign’ reflected both desperation and hope
As Durango and America entered the 1930s, hard times had arrived in some places and were just over the horizon for the whole country. An editorial in the Durango Herald Democrat (Oct. 31, 19...
DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
Lawmakers busy with start of new session
It has been a very busy time since the election, Nov. 4.
I had to be in Denver on the night of Nov. 5 for a meeting with the house Republican Caucus and attended full-day legislat...
DATE: Jan 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
City of Durango is looking at quite a busy new year
I’ve been cleaning out closets and reorganizing kitchen cabinets. Maybe it’s my internal winter instincts to look at life and to face the New Year with a grin. Do I really need all those con...
DATE: Jan 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
2014 letter-writers
In 2014, The Durango Herald letters to the editor section was a lively forum, full of spirited debate about community concerns. Readers shared with others their views on the “Arc of History”...
DATE: Jan 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman
