Opinion Columns – The Durango Herald

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Mercy Hospital provider statement – our commitment to caring for our community

It was disheartening to read the letter titled, “Context for petition to improve health care” submitted by business leaders and “17 concerned physicians.” However, we thank the community me...

DATE: Nov 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Americans will always revere mustangs

For a professor of history, Andrew Gulliford sure seems to have forgotten plenty of it. Or perhaps he only remembers the history that fits the narrative of his curiously callous anti-mustang...

DATE: Nov 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Access to higher education is the gateway, degree completion is the goal. Doubling the Pell Grant will help

Since 1972, the federal Pell Grant Program has expanded access to education for millions more Americans than otherwise would have earned a college degree. The grant has made college afforda...

DATE: Nov 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Op-Ed

The Chief belongs in a museum

The oversized, cartoon sign of an American Indian pointing to a place of business has outlived its moment. The Chief belongs in a museum not on a downtown street. He belongs with his histori...

DATE: Nov 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Chastise Texas about its abortion law

There is no such thing as banning abortion, there is only banning safe abortion. Texas has just passed the country’s most draconian and restrictive law on abortion, which the Supreme Court i...

DATE: Nov 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Proposition 119 will close the ‘opportunity gap’ for our kids

When it comes to providing school-aged kids with the opportunities they need to succeed; the pandemic opened our eyes to problems that have existed for more than a generation. In Colorado, a...

DATE: Oct 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Context for petition to improve health care at Mercy

By Concerned, Retired Mercy Physicians History and stated mission In 1882, the Sisters of Mercy came to Durango to serve the health care needs of the people of the Four Corners. For 140 year...

DATE: Oct 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Gen. Colin Powell deserving of honor bestowed on him by president

On Oct. 18, President Joe Biden ordered all flags at the White House, public buildings and grounds, military posts, naval stations, overseas embassies and consular offices to be flown at hal...

DATE: Oct 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Vote ‘no’ on Prop. 119; it’s not in the best interest of Colorado kids or taxpayers

Supporters of Proposition 119 are misleading voters. This misguided proposal would cut millions of dollars that support classroom supplies, educational programming and teacher salaries from ...

DATE: Oct 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Op-Ed

Earth’s warming temperature would seem to be a front-page story

If newspaper editors really wanted to bring proper attention to climate change, they would immediately dedicate a portion of their front page – say, lower left corner – to an “Earth Watch” b...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Conservative Supreme Court justices are asking us to stop calling them partisan hacks

You may have noticed that an unusual number of Supreme Court justices have taken to publicly defending themselves – my favorite is Amy Coney Barrett’s we’re-not-partisan-hacks defense – as c...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Chaco Culture National Park is under siege

It is not an exaggeration to say that New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park is under siege. A surge of oil and gas development threatens this ancestral site, recognized as one ...

DATE: Oct 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Op-Ed