Editorials - The Durango Herald

Backing Trump: Republicans face tough dilemma in choosing between party, pride

Many Republicans have a tough choice. They can stick with Donald Trump, and by default countenance a steady stream of misogyny and crudeness, or they can support, or at least not actively op...

DATE: May 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Herald’s loss, county’s gain

Megan Graham, until recently associate opinion editor and member of the Herald’s editorial board, has taken a newly created job as La Plata County’s public affairs officer. It is a position ...

DATE: May 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Scandal in Tipton’s Thompson Divide proposal should be content, not origins

There has been much to-do in the last week about a draft bill recently released by U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and said to have been based on language largely written by an energy company. But if...

DATE: May 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

City right to be concerned about Councilor Marbury’s ethics and dismiss non-issue

An ethics complaint against City Councilor Sweetie Marbury was dismissed Monday by the city’s Ethics Board. And rightly so, the Ethics Board’s job is to ensure that city business is on the u...

DATE: May 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Colorado Supreme Court rules that state law pre-empts local bans

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday struck down two Front Range cities’ prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing, saying state law takes precedence. And with that the focus shifts to the Novemb...

DATE: May 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Proposed changes to marijuana sales laws are too broad, too soon

Two industry groups have come up with a proposal to change how Colorado regulates marijuana sales. Titled “Concerning Marijuana,” the draft legislation would enact sweeping changes. ...

DATE: May 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Downtown is lacking wheelchair access

Our extended family recently navigated the Main Avenue downtown streets of Durango. We pushed my disabled mother-in-law in her wheelchair. I was shocked at the number of downtown intersectio...

DATE: May 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Improving economy will require modern solutions, not slogans

If they have to choose, most Americans prefer low prices to items made in the United States. An Associated Press/GfK poll shows that faced with a price difference, most will buy less expensi...

DATE: May 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

New and returning LPEA directors should make lessening divisions a priority

New and returning directors should make lessening divisions a priority

DATE: Apr 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Bipartisan wind power support protects clean energy and Colorado jobs

Bipartisan support for funding protects clean energy and Colorado jobs

DATE: Apr 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Cruz and Kasich spoiler deal was too little, too late and too manipulative

This week, GOP presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and John Kasich agreed, briefly, on a plan that might have helped deny frontrunner Donald Trump enough delegates to avoid a contested convention...

DATE: Apr 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Wedding Cakes: Court reaffirms Colorado’s anti-discrimination law

Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of an appellate court ruling that the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop broke the law in refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same...

DATE: Apr 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials