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Zoom with 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 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Gail Collins: A spring politics quiz good for a few laughs

Spring is here, folks! I know things aren’t really normal yet. But they seem to be coming around. Picnics! Movies! Sooner or later we’ll all actually be going to work at … work. And before y...

DATE: Apr 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Ron Dickson: Bipartisan support is needed for climate change to work

The first Earth Day — April 22, 1970 — marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Its history is instructive in that this day grew out of bipartisan support. Earthday.org rep...

DATE: Apr 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Jan and Greg Phillips: Medicare for All, Version 2021

U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., recently reintroduced H.R. 1976, their improved Medicare For All Act of 2021 (M4A) in the House of Representatives...

DATE: Apr 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our View: Bill would hinder public’s right to know

Bill would hinder public’s right to know

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Antonia Clark: Op-ed on ‘the Chief’ unfair to owners

I read with interest the recent op-ed by Trennie Collins and want to add some relevant facts. As part owner of Toh-Atin’s parking lot and the Chief Diner sign, I have met with City Councilo...

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Allen Best: Can Tri-State pivot to stay afloat?

Once again the question looms, this time prodded by a downgrading by S&P Global Ratings, whether Tri-State Generation & Transmission can pivot rapidly enough to stay afloat in the turbulent ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Don Coram: Budget, greenhouse gas emissions dominate session

The budget is almost finalized. It passed the Colorado Senate with only one “No” vote. Sixteen amendments were passed to Senate Bill 21-205 (the budget bill, also known as “the ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Commercial wood use helps reduce wildfire threat

Residence and forest products businesses can be excited about the efforts taking place in Southwest Colorado addressing our wildfire threat and community protection. The degree o...

DATE: Apr 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: It’s past time for “the Chief” to go

I read the articulate opinion written by Trennie Burch Collins pertaining to “the Chief” sign/”artwork” still being displayed in downtown Durango, and I agree wholeheartedly that it is past ...

DATE: Apr 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor