Columnists - The Durango Herald

Maintenance of trails, public lands a shared responsibility

We all know what is happening. For a while now, there has been a big push to get healthier by eating right, getting exercise and going outdoors to enjoy nature. All of these suggestions are ...

DATE: Jun 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Responses to disaster reflect county’s key values

The contrast between June 1, 2018 and June 1, 2019 could not be more stark. As of June 1, snowpack in the Animas River Basin is 1,493% of the median. Last year on the same day, it...

DATE: Jun 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Chair

Brew Train is keeping it local

The Brew Train is all about supporting local. Part of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, the weekly Brew Train, which runs from Rockwood to Cascade every Saturday mor...

DATE: Jun 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Harvard is choosing the wrong path to wisdom

Over the past year and a half, the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have handled themselves with a fervor and commitment that has, most of the time, in...

DATE: Jun 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Bernie, the ’30s called and wants its decade back

WASHINGTON – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, is a man from the 1930s. If you didn’t believe that before, you certainl...

DATE: Jun 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Dear voters, your views on foreign policy stink!

Most of human history has been marked by war. Between 1500 and 1945, scarcely a year went by without one great power fighting another. Then, in 1945, that stopped. Battlefield dea...

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

The worst president hails the greatest generation

Why do we still commemorate D-Day? It’s not a rhetorical question. The event is more distant to us than Custer’s Last Stand was to the men who stormed the Normandy shore. Those me...

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Store’s sign offers fresh perspective on ‘food’

I noticed this sign at City Market, advertising bags of composted cow manure. Thing is, the placard’s headline reads “Fresh food. Low prices.” While $1.89 is a low price, I’m fairly sure tha...

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Action Line

A textbook case of Colorado political ineptitude

For those who wonder why Republicans keep losing in Colorado, we give you the latest GOP fail, in which Kristi Burton Brown, vice-chair of the state Republican Party, officially ended her do...

DATE: Jun 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Our energy supply system is transforming

In just a few weeks, Public Service Co. of New Mexico will initiate the process to officially retire the San Juan Generating Station, the 1,600-megawatt, coal-fired behemoth outside Farmingt...

DATE: Jun 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Where in the world shouldn’t you go?

With violence against American tourists in the news, summer travelers who usually ask, “Where should I go this year?” may be more likely to ask, “Which places should I avoid?” Her...

DATE: Jun 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

The other D-Day: 75 years ago, it lit up the Pacific

As allied troops crossed the English Channel to invade northern France on June 6, 1944, 600 U.S. Navy ships were converging on the Mariana Islands, Japanese territory only 1,200 miles from t...

DATE: Jun 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns