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

Administration should face opium addiction despair

The health care bill failed. The odds of successful tax reform are remote, and in any case an actual proposal is months away. If we lived in a normal country our president would use the curr...

DATE: Apr 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

200 years of public health has doubled our life expectancy

With National Public Health Week taking place April 3-9, I ask you to take a trip back in time and imagine yourself living 200 years ago in 1817. Living conditions then were vastly different...

DATE: Apr 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Opinion pieces on grazing are misleading

Our business and livelihood depend on responsible shepherding

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Michael Gerson: This presidency is failing – and stunningly

WASHINGTON – In the aftermath of the GOP health care debacle came a revealing act of candor. House Speaker Paul Ryan admitted that his party, which controls the House, Senate and White House...

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Efforts to end grazing are shortsighted

As the bighorn/domestic sheep conflict continues to be an issue, I felt it was important to attend the Sheep in Montana – Domestic and Wild – The State of Things and What We Know About Disea...

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Gail Collins: Trump remembers the ladies

Women’s History Month is coming to an end. Donald Trump must be absolutely exhausted. “... the White House has been hosting events all throughout March,” press secretary Sean Spic...

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

State grant funds plan for Ewing Mesa event center

One of the things that we get kind of excited about at La Plata County is leveraging partnerships to benefit our community. We do this all the time: Energy impact grants from the ...

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Charles Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care has been paved

WASHINGTON – Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and th...

DATE: Mar 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Frank Bruni: Devin Nunes is dangerous

Rep. Devin Nunes obviously fancies himself Jason Bourne. To sneak onto the White House grounds for that rendezvous with an unnamed source last week, he switched cars and ditched aides, vanis...

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

David Brooks: Can elephants learn from failure?

The Republican health care bill failed because it was a bad bill that had almost no authentic public support. It took benefits away from tens of millions of vulnerable people to give tax bre...

DATE: Mar 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Donald, this I will tell you

We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? Don’t w...

DATE: Mar 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Our poop-prone PUPS AND US

When I’m 90, I’ll probably still be haunted by memories of bins overflowing with the remnants of hiking snacks and thinly wrapped dog turds, left to bake for a week in small plastic bags. ...

DATE: Mar 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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