Editorials - The Durango Herald

Renewable energy growth nationwide puts La Plata Electric debate in context

La Plata Electric Association’s yearly elections for seats on its board of directors are unusually feisty affairs, given the otherwise mundane nature of rural electric cooperatives. Unfortun...

DATE: May 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

National parks, public lands are opportunities for tourism growth

Visitation at Mesa Verde National Park was up 8 percent last year. National park and national monument visitation increased in New Mexico, too, as it did across much of the West. The reasons...

DATE: May 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

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