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Tracy Jones: Guilty verdict for Chauvin is relief, not victory

The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial is a relief, but not a victory. A victory is when we no longer need a witness to record the murder of a Black man in order to reciev...

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Keep up COVID-19 safety protocols

Summer is coming, but that doesn’t mean COVID-19 is leaving. As of April 25, data from the CDC states that only 28.5% of the United States population is fully vaccinated, with an extra 8% of...

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: May 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letter: Cruz’s response to Biden speech shows he slept through it

Having listened to both Biden’s speech and Ted Cruz’s response, two things are overwhelmingly obvious. First, Cruz is one of the most want-to-be “Caucasian” Hispanics I have ever s...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Threat of authoritarianism is real

This week, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who came to power in 2010 with his Fidesz Party, has taken over the Orbán already has taken over Hungary’s judiciary and news media, refuse...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Barbara McLachlan: Colorado agriculture is nonpartisan

My grandfather was a mover and shaker in the Colorado sugar-beet industry with Great Western Sugar, and he was also a professor of agriculture at Colorado State University. But the agricultu...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mike Littwin: Gun-violence bills in state won’t be matched in Congress

Give credit to Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg and others in the state legislature who, in the wake of the Boulder King Soopers shooting, are trying to actually do something about gun v...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Lawrence S. Wittner: Despite COVID-19, other crises, major powers increased military spending in 2020

Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe econ...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letter: Keep COVID-19 statistics front and center

In response to Paul Savin’s letter ( In viewing our statistics in relation to other areas, I can clearly see the effect that reduced vigilance has on those communities and no matter how tir...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Republicans are primary practitioners of voter suppression

Saying that both major political parties practice voter suppression ( Yes, gerrymandering is employed by both parties, and there are laws in Colorado and elsewhere that make it hard for ind...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Zoom with the Herald Community on Friday!

Join Opinion Page Editor Hollis Walker and other Durangoans at noon Friday, April 30, to talk about Doing Business Better, one of our FOCUS 2021 topics. Email her at hwalker@durangoherald.co...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor