Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our view: Shorter run-ups, please

They’re off to the races. We wish it were not so soon. For term-limited Jared Polis’ seat, we’re aware of state Sen. Mark Baisley’s and state Rep. Scott Bottoms’ campaigns for the governor’s...

DATE: Apr 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Looking out for mom and pop

Senate Bill 33, signed by Gov. Jared Polis last Thursday (Herald, Apr. 11), will provide a lifeline to independent liquor stores in Colorado by preventing any more of the largest grocery...

DATE: Apr 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Gov. Polis signs firearms’ law

Years ago, a gun safety class was the socially accepted, no hesitation, expectation for owning a gun. Gun safety was at the core of how the National Rifle Association built its following. Be...

DATE: Apr 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: This week – Hurd, meters, lands and a college presidency

Congressman Jeff Hurd, who represents Western and southern Colorado, is challenging the president by being one of two Republicans in the House so far to sign onto a bill that asserts Congres...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Bluegrass Rules!

The initiated will know the headline refers to a 1997 Grammy award winning album of the same name by Ricky Skaggs, an American new traditional country and bluegrass musician, singer, compose...

DATE: Apr 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: State budget work - small reductions and large unknowns

Colorado legislators this week are engrossed in shaping a state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 that sheds a looming $1.2 billion shortfall, layered with only a suggestion of the...

DATE: Apr 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: State Veterans Affairs in Ignacio

Gas and food cards to aid travel to health care appointments, housing in just about every community, grant applications for organizations that are a challenge to complete, and then to report...

DATE: Apr 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: ‘Then they came for me’

By now, most have heard of the Mar. 25 “taking” of the Tufts University Ph.D. student, Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, in Somerville, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb. The term, along with ‘disappeared’ i...

DATE: Apr 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Congrats councilors, new challenges ahead

Election Day has come and gone and the Herald’s Editorial Board is pleased to welcome Kip Koso, Shirley Gonzales and Jessika Buell (back) to the Durango City Council. Koso received 3,571 vot...

DATE: Apr 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Reasonable gun legislation making progress

In February, we wrote about the Colorado General Assembly’s progress to encourage reasonable gun use (Herald, Feb. 20). Of the four bills being considered at the beginning of the legislative...

DATE: Apr 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Extraordinary Women

As March comes to a close and with it Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, the Herald’s editorial board would be remiss in not recognizing the remarkable and durable achievem...

DATE: Mar 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Vote “For” 2A, Elias, Gonzales, Koso

We’re rounding the corner on another City of Durango election and The Durango Herald’s editorial board first wishes to thank Melissa Youssef, two-time mayor, two-term and term-limited city c...

DATE: Mar 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion