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

Fall 1918 saw war end, but killing continued

The Durango Evening Herald and the whole community cheered the end of the war. Durangoans had patriotically done their duty, “enjoying” meatless and wheatless days, and cheered as the Allied...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Colorado’s water future

Without planning the entire state could experience serious shortages

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Two new scientific books address food controversies

Most popular books on food either promise health and longevity for the nutritional advice they are proposing, or predict dire personal or social consequences if certain types of food choices...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Feed the world with resource-minded agriculture

Food production is not the problem; allocation is

DATE: Oct 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Facts show City Council has gone too far with bag ordinance

By Cathy Yonker, Mike Finney, Betty Clark, Paul Bynum and Dave Peters The facts surrounding the bag ordinance are clear and evidence to support a vote to repeal it. F...

DATE: Oct 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

College prep course ignites early planning, eases nerves

On my white days, I have one class that I always leave feeling a strange mixture of excitement and stress. The ACT prep and college planning class, taught by the one and only Kurt Zeiner, ha...

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Bag It

Put the issue to rest: Uphold fee ordinance

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Off season becomes time for listening and learning

Dropping temperatures and fall colors signal our advance into autumn, with winter around the corner. For me, September was spent partly home in Durango and partly in Denver attending interim...

DATE: Oct 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Sharing responsibility

Punitive approach is wrong way to address wildfire risk

DATE: Oct 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

From ‘Huns’ and ‘Victory Dogs’ to burning books

“The war to end all wars,” Americans called it, when it started in August 1914. It seemed so horrible that mankind would never again fall into such a murderous tragedy. It featured machine g...

DATE: Oct 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

The new normal

We can expect more frequent, more extreme weather-related problems

DATE: Oct 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Radiation phobia’s negative effect on nuclear power

Having spent a good portion of my working life engaged in research about nuclear effects, I am always appalled at the extent of the misinformation presented in the media about those effects ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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