Opinion

Our view: Honoring Native American military service, sacrifice and patriotism

Colorado Rep. Larry Don Suckla (R-Cortez), our newest House District 58 representative to the Colorado General Assembly, has gotten off to an impactful start. He recently cosponsored House J...

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

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...
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