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DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Writers on the Range: Pumping up fear on the Colorado River

Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé and found the family trembling and weeping. They pointed to the ceiling, where an axe w...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our View: Decline to sign animal cruelty ballot initiative

Don’t sign animal cruelty ballot initiative

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Kayla Shaggy: Take down the Toh-Atin ‘Chief’

My name is Kayla Shaggy, and I am a Diné and Annishinabe artist currently living in Arizona. I used to live in Durango. I’m known for my work in art and comics, specifically, “The Sixth Worl...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Supreme Court has corrupted vision of human life

It has come to pass that the Supreme Court of the United States is controlled by six people who are usually referred to as conservatives, though the defining feature of their characters is n...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Paul Krugman: Getting real about coal and climate

“Change is coming, whether we seek it or not.” So declares a remarkable document titled “Preserving Coal Country,” released Monday by the United Mine Workers of America, in which the union —...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Writers on the Range: The Western state rush to suppress voting

Colorado’s elections are a bipartisan success story, so when Major League Baseball responded to Georgia’s new voting restrictions by moving the All-Star Game to Denver, it couldn’t have made...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: ‘Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.’ Really.

“Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030. They want to limit us to about four pounds a year. Why doesn’t Joe stay out of my kitchen?” So r...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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