Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our view: ‘FOR’ 2A, invest in Efficiency, Safety, Parks and ‘AGAINST’ misinformation

Before we get into the Herald editorial board’s full support of Ballot Issue 2A, the city of Durango’s referred measure asking voters to reauthorize and extend for 30 years the city’s one ha...

DATE: Mar 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Not shovel-ready yet, but a good plan

La Plata County’s fairgrounds was originally agricultural property separating Durango and Animas City. In the late 1940s, when infrastructure improvements were more than Animas City could fu...

DATE: Mar 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Celebrating and defending public media

The Herald’s editorial board would like to call readers’ attention to tomorrow’s “Protect My Public Media Day,” (visit protectmypublicmedia.org), a day our public media colleagues are workin...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Durango Film celebrates 20 years

We couldn’t talk about the threat to public media funding without also mentioning Rocky Mountain PBS and the important role it plays in southwest Colorado, through partnerships with so many ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Reproductive health, abortion care needed now

In mid-February, The New York Times reported on a national crisis at Planned Parenthood that has resulted in the closing of one-third of its clinics in the past 30-plus years, the aftersh...

DATE: Mar 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Ukrainians do not deserve what is coming

Three years ago, Americans were cheering on Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian military, for very good reason. Imaginative defensive tactics were thwarting what the Russians thought would...

DATE: Feb 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Honoring Native American military service, sacrifice and patriotism

Colorado Rep. Larry Don Suckla (R-Cortez), our newest House District 58 representative to the Colorado General Assembly, has gotten off to an impactful start. He recently cosponsored House J...

DATE: Feb 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: In it for the heart of it - Maria’s celebrates 40 years

Maria’s Bookshop celebrates 40 years of creating community connections through books

DATE: Feb 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Not the Durango way

How low can we go? No, we’re not talking about limbo, rather the ongoing feud between the city of Durango and La Plata County over the city’s use of the county jail for municipal offenders, ...

DATE: Feb 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Our house is on fire

Conflagration. “A large, intense, and uncontrolled fire. It can also refer to a violent conflict or war.” That’s what we are witnessing in our federal government as the Executive Branch disr...

DATE: Feb 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Developing confidence, courage and character

Talk of mints has us thinking about Thin Mints. It’s that time of year again when Girl Scouts locally and nationally are selling cookies to raise funds for their local troops. All cookie pro...

DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Love, Durango style

The city of Durango’s 2025 Clean Commute week kicked off Saturday and culminates on Friday at the 13th annual Winter Bike to Work Day taking place at six different stations around town in th...

DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion