Editorials

Independence Day: July 4th deserves rememberance and reflection

SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald – Boden Philippon, a student at Riverview Elementary School, lowers the flag at the end of school…

July 3, 2018

Editorials

What we do: At the Capital Gazette, and all across the U.S., journalists got right back to work

(AP Photo/John Minchillo)du1-i-syn Then the details came: Five dead. Capital Gazette newsroom in Anapolis. Reporters tweeting from under their desks.…

July 1, 2018

Editorials

Ground them

Jerry McBride/Durango Herald – A single engine air tanker drops its load of fire retardant high above the Lightner Creek…

June 30, 2018

Editorials

Object of wonder

Katrina, Sandy and Andrew are just three great examples from the Atlantic. The most appropriately named Pacific storm Bud, however,…

June 26, 2018

Editorials

Clean commute: Finding another, cleaner way to arrive at work this week

JOSH STEPHENSON/Herald<br><br>Fort Lewis College biology professor Dr. Cynthia Dott gets ready to continue on her way to work after a…

June 25, 2018

Editorials

We will survive

Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald – Pedestrians along Main Avenue are reflected in the windows of the Durango Welcome Center.du1-i-syn A devastating…

June 23, 2018

Editorials

Making progress: City shows initiative in finding interim camp for homeless

Soon the homeless will have their tents and tarps below the entrance to Greenmount Cemetery, sufficiently near Manna for its…

June 22, 2018

Editorials

Primary recap: Ballots due by Tuesday will decide choices on November ballot

Ballots due by June 26 will decide our choices on the November ballot

June 20, 2018

Editorials

Autopsy review: Hickenlooper was correct to veto bill that limited review of child autopsies

Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post – Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.du1-i-syn A child can die from a medical issue…

June 17, 2018

Editorials

Interim action

The agency will focus on these areas while also formulating a larger, more comprehensive and long-term plan for the entire…

June 15, 2018

Editorials

A turning point?

Residents returning to their homes let us hope that worst of 416 Fire is over

June 15, 2018

Editorials

Summer on hold: Raging wildfires, and public land closures, define the summer of 2018

Courtesy of Dan Bender – An air tanker drops retardant on the 416 Fire north of Durango.du1-i-syn They may have…

June 13, 2018

Editorials

Retain Aichele: Experience in office gives incumbent the edge

Mary Shinn/Durango Herald – La Plata County Treasurer Allison Aichele, right, speaks with Mary Ann McCarthy at Needham Elementary during…

June 11, 2018

Editorials

Moving forward: Lachelt and her critics need to work together for remainder of her term

Lachelt, and her critics, need to work together for remainder of her term

June 8, 2018

Editorials

Democrat decision: Three candidates vie to try and unseat Rep. Tipton

du1-i-syn Tipton is seeking a fourth term, and an incumbent, even one from an a party in disorder in Washington,…

June 5, 2018

Editorials

City Council’s new limit on speaking should be accepted, with caution

June 4, 2018

Editorials

Dems on the ballot

Associated Press filedu1-i-syn As a State Senator, Mike Johnston made a specialty of advocating for improving pre-K through 12 education,…

June 2, 2018

Editorials

GOP hopefuls

Stapleton’s experience as treasurer sets him apart as the better candidate

June 2, 2018

Editorials

Happy Horse

Iron Horse organizers and volunteers stage another classic bike holiday

June 1, 2018

Editorials

Culture of secrecy

(AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson) Environmental Protection Agency employees and environmental activists protest the nomination of Scott Pruitt for administrator of…

May 30, 2018

Editorials

Remember Me: Veteran Bob Harms commemorates the Memorial Day holiday in verse

Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald – John Jarrett, Chaplian at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4031 reflected in the Veterans Memorial…

May 28, 2018

Editorials

Triple crown: Bayfield state championships an inspiration to us all

du1-i-syn But we would be remiss not to mention the rare achievement of four Bayfield High School senior boys who…

May 26, 2018

Editorials

Iron Horse: Gravel rides join the classic lineup of events

SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald -A bike racer beats the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge train to the crossing at Highway 550…

May 25, 2018

Editorials

Water mapping

JERRY McBRIDE/Herald<br><br>Robert Morris of Animas Well Drilling drills a 227-foot deep domestic water well east of Oxford.du1-i-syn Former County Commissioner…

May 23, 2018