Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

Our View: Honor vets with Camp Hale monument

Camp Hale and the Tenmile Range, which produced the 10th Mountain Division with alpine soldiers who busted through German lines and changed the course of World War II, are in dire need of st...

DATE: Sep 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Mushrooms to treat mental health: Pass Initiative 58

In the treatment of mental health, psilocybin is too promising to ignore. For this reason, along with legalization’s removal of a criminal element, we support passing Initiative 58, the meas...

DATE: Sep 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Garage sale

DATE: Sep 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Militarizing the North Pole

DATE: Sep 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Wes Rowell: On election coverage

DATE: Sep 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Will take that bet

DATE: Sep 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

3 approaches to community values

Three recent articles in The Journal shared three approaches to community issues. Pleasant View neighbors don't want to see solar panels on their neighbor's property because they'd rather se...

DATE: Aug 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Each transaction says yes or no to inflation

Inflation is front and center in the midterm elections. But don’t fall under the sway of candidates who claim the superpower of inflicting real-time effects on inflation. They don’t have it....

DATE: Aug 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Student debt

DATE: Aug 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: D&SNGR: To wave or not to wave

Lately, letters about the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s train whistle have taken up real estate in our Opinion section. One letter-writer steered the conversation toward a new ...

DATE: Aug 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Wes Rowell: Dr. Fauci says goodbye

DATE: Aug 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: 4-day school weeks poised to be Southwest standard

Historians are at odds over why school calendars begin in the fall and summer is the season for breaks. Some say children helped on farms in summer. Others says cities were sweltering in Jun...

DATE: Aug 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion