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Whitewater Park

Project revisions and consequencesput the city of Durango on the hook

DATE: Apr 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Congress’ beating up of EPA no substitute for real fix

Wednesday, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee issued a subpoena ordering Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy or Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus to testify a...

DATE: Apr 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Focus on prevention, restoration a positive shift for 9-R

Adolescence is a tumultuous time for all involved. Individuals going through the transition from childhood to adulthood test boundaries – their own, those of their parents and those imposed ...

DATE: Apr 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Service animal bill was flawed, but abuse is real

Bill killed in committee Monday was flawed, but the problem of abuse is real

DATE: Apr 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Hawk Tank: Entrepreneurs, innovation central to boosting Southwest Colorado’s economy

Fort Lewis College concluded its Hawk Tank competition Saturday and it looks like a great success. Moreover, it exemplified and encouraged the kind of economic development that could best he...

DATE: Apr 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

EPA, Superfund

Agency proposes listing for Bonita Peak, setting the course for action

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Clean air: State Senate’s partisan grandstanding based soley on opposition to Obama

The flap in the Colorado Senate over funding for implementing aspects of the Clean Power Plan can be explained in one word: Obama. The state of American politics – and worse, governance – ha...

DATE: Apr 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Industry should notify local governments of planned wells

When Gov. John Hickenlooper convened the Task Force on State and Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations in 2014, the intent was to improve the sometimes fraught relationship between loca...

DATE: Apr 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Misnamed laws protect only ability of hateful to discriminate

Tuesday, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed into law a bill with the Orwellian title “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act.” It is the most egregious of a ser...

DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Sewage lagoon: Lightner Creek park, state disturbingly blasé about leakage

For the monthly space rental fee that residents of the Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park pay, they should be assured that the waste materials that flow through each home’s pipes are properly t...

DATE: Apr 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

In the Capitol

Lawmakers right on driver’s licenses, but maybe not online gaming, service-animals

DATE: Apr 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Mayor earned a celebration

Members of the Herald’s editorial board were not among the 100 invited to Mayor Dean Brookie’s ball at his house Friday evening, but that doesn’t mean we find fault with it. On th...

DATE: Apr 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials