Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our View: Snow Day brings delight, serious stress

“Snow Day.” Two words that hold a world of perspectives within the Durango School District. “Snow Day,” aka school closures, has little ones in pajamas, grinning wickedly and jiggling with e...

DATE: Jan 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Letter writer’s ‘news straight from Russia’

In response to a letter writer in The Journal, calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky corrupt and a thug, he must get his news straight from Russia and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s new...

DATE: Jan 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Shining light on meetings, costly lawsuits

Here we go again. Serial records requester Pagosa Springs attorney Matt Roane gave the city of Durango an ultimatum on Jan. 4: Either City Council approves the release of a recording from a ...

DATE: Jan 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

On GOP: ‘We must speak out’

Many of us want to take a sanguine view or at least a non-hateful view of today’s Republican Party. This has become a fool’s effort. The GOP has become so filled with mean-spirited lying, so...

DATE: Jan 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: BLM needs direction, bold action on conservation

Locals and visitors arriving to Durango-La Plata County Airport are met with an image of Phil’s World, the iconic trail system that winds through piñons and junipers, east of Cortez and 45 m...

DATE: Jan 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Sports betting should benefit Utes

Tribes missing out on tax revenues with contradictory laws

DATE: Jan 18, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Santos story dropped in void between local, regional papers

Congressman got through gates as public assumed he was vetted

DATE: Jan 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Service as simple as picking up a shovel

No need to look far to lend a hand

DATE: Jan 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Editorials

A try at some local predictions for 2023

A week into the New Year, some upcoming events for the year are easier to predict than others. That’s not unusual. We can easily say that providing workforce housing will be a focus in 2023,...

DATE: Jan 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: 2023 the year for immigration solutions

Federal government inaction adding to misery

DATE: Jan 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Cortez Chamber example of 2 + 2 = 5

There’s plenty to like about the United States, and one is the number and diversity of small businesses new and longer-lived that allow those with imagination, take-charge instincts and grit...

DATE: Jan 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Lacks statue doesn’t do justice, but it’s a start

A lot of gestures made don’t come close to righting wrongs. But efforts count for something. The statue of Henrietta Lacks in her hometown of Roanoke, Va., is one of them. The Lacks statue, ...

DATE: Jan 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion