Our view: In it for the heart of it - Maria’s celebrates 40 years
Maria’s Bookshop celebrates 40 years of creating community connections through books
DATE: Feb 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: Not the Durango way
How low can we go? No, we’re not talking about limbo, rather the ongoing feud between the city of Durango and La Plata County over the city’s use of the county jail for municipal offenders, ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: Our house is on fire
Conflagration. “A large, intense, and uncontrolled fire. It can also refer to a violent conflict or war.”
That’s what we are witnessing in our federal government as the Executive Branch disr...
DATE: Feb 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: Developing confidence, courage and character
Talk of mints has us thinking about Thin Mints. It’s that time of year again when Girl Scouts locally and nationally are selling cookies to raise funds for their local troops. All cookie pro...
DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: Love, Durango style
The city of Durango’s 2025 Clean Commute week kicked off Saturday and culminates on Friday at the 13th annual Winter Bike to Work Day taking place at six different stations around town in th...
DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: Just two DOGEs make sense
To be clear, what the Department of Government Efficiency – not a real department, nor a legitimate ‘leader’ – is doing and how they are doing it, unconstitutionally, without the approval of...
DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our View: Legislature making progress to encourage reasonable gun use
Gavels have been drawn over the gun-related bills introduced so far into the 2025 legislative session. Of the four introduced, two in the House and two in the Senate, only three have advance...
DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: The promise of government
A form of the adage, “Good things come to those who wait,” hit home on Thursday (Herald, Feb. 13) when Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, and Rep. Jeff Hurd, introduced a bipartisan...
DATE: Feb 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: The president with a cudgel: When will Republicans end it?
Is there nothing in the federal government that Donald Trump doesn’t want to pull apart and destroy, behaving as though his election victory gives him unlimited authority? Internally, he has...
DATE: Feb 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: Pre K-12 could be a Colorado budget target
Work has been underway at the state Capitol since the beginning days of the legislative session to tackle the sizable shortfall in the state’s fiscal year, which begins in July. Costs, tied ...
DATE: Feb 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: ‘The gut’ does the military no good
There are several images in President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the second just a week old, that will remain in the public’s mind: his escalator descent smearing all Mexican immigr...
DATE: Feb 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: 9-R, Durango, a community of acceptance and support
Welcome to February, and Black History Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness of African Americans’ struggle for freedom and equal opportunity, and celebrating the accomplishments of B...
DATE: Feb 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
