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

Rigney: LWCF deserves permanent protection

At Osprey – a leading manufacturer of outdoor gear, employing over 115 people in the U.S. – we believe that adventure is open to everyone. Nowhere does that feel more true than i...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Robinson: Trump’s rhetoric is going to get someone killed

Everything you need to know about today’s Republican Party is summed up by a photograph from President Trump’s political rally in Ohio last Saturday. Two men in the crowd look de...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Goldberg: Will the birthplace of the modern right turn blue?

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – July 31, 2018, was a Tuesday, which meant that constituents of Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican congressman from Orange County, were out protesting. Until...

DATE: Aug 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The horses are wild. Time to tame our policy.

Wild mustangs are a problem. A fascinating problem. Even captivating. Just hearing those half-ton hide-wrapped packages of muscle and bone snort and stomp as they toss their heads can knock ...

DATE: Aug 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Writers on the Range: To survive we need immigrants working the land

It is 11:30 at night on our farm in the West, in a part of Colorado that I’d rather not identify, and we are trying to get our grain corn harvested before a storm hits us hard. I ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

How Trump won re-election in 2020

In the end, a bitterly fought election came down to the old political aphorism, popularized during Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 run against George H.W. Bush: “It’s the economy, stupid.” ...

DATE: Aug 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our food system isn’t broken, but the farm bill is

When I hear someone say “our food system is broken,” it stings. I think about my mom, who has farmed my whole life, and about my friends and the countless other farmers and ranchers who work...

DATE: Jul 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

They created a space for me: Will others have the same opportunity?

By Eliane Viner I arrived in America not speaking English, working as an au pair for the Dutch Consul General. I don’t recall being a dreamer as much as taking in every...

DATE: Jul 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Democrats are moving to the left. Don’t panic – yet

In November, several outright Nazis and white supremacists will appear on Republican ballot lines. Arthur Jones, a founder of a neo-Nazi group called the America First Committee, managed to ...

DATE: Jul 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bears Ears: Don’t dismantle the sacred spirit of the land

On Dec. 4, 2017, President Donald Trump traveled to Utah to announce his attempt to undo the Bears Ears National Monument. His actions shrink the size of the protected landscape and reduce t...

DATE: Jul 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

You must resign, Mike Pompeo. Resign, John Bolton.

Before the word “resignation” became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Rucke...

DATE: Jul 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Parnell: We can expect even more fires in coming years

During summer 2002, my parents and I escaped the smoky air of Estes Park by spending much of our vacation in front of the TV. It had been the worst fire season in Colorado history – a harbin...

DATE: Jul 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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