Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our view: State budget work - small reductions and large unknowns

Colorado legislators this week are engrossed in shaping a state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 that sheds a looming $1.2 billion shortfall, layered with only a suggestion of the...

DATE: Apr 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: State Veterans Affairs in Ignacio

Gas and food cards to aid travel to health care appointments, housing in just about every community, grant applications for organizations that are a challenge to complete, and then to report...

DATE: Apr 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: ‘Then they came for me’

By now, most have heard of the Mar. 25 “taking” of the Tufts University Ph.D. student, Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, in Somerville, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb. The term, along with ‘disappeared’ i...

DATE: Apr 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Congrats councilors, new challenges ahead

Election Day has come and gone and the Herald’s Editorial Board is pleased to welcome Kip Koso, Shirley Gonzales and Jessika Buell (back) to the Durango City Council. Koso received 3,571 vot...

DATE: Apr 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Reasonable gun legislation making progress

In February, we wrote about the Colorado General Assembly’s progress to encourage reasonable gun use (Herald, Feb. 20). Of the four bills being considered at the beginning of the legislative...

DATE: Apr 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Extraordinary Women

As March comes to a close and with it Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, the Herald’s editorial board would be remiss in not recognizing the remarkable and durable achievem...

DATE: Mar 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Vote “For” 2A, Elias, Gonzales, Koso

We’re rounding the corner on another City of Durango election and The Durango Herald’s editorial board first wishes to thank Melissa Youssef, two-time mayor, two-term and term-limited city c...

DATE: Mar 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: The humanity we want to see

In February 2021, David Brooks, a highly respected Canadian-born American author, political analyst, cultural commentator, and founder of Weave: The Social Fabric Project, addressed hundreds...

DATE: Mar 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Roberts’ Youth Council for next gen. leaders continues

Former State Sen. Ellen Roberts, a former Republican from Durango, was thinking of the next generation when she floated the idea of creating a group of junior and high school age students wh...

DATE: Mar 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Dept. of Education too critical to crush

Donald Trump’s targets are many in his effort to transform the United States into a country of single thought and action where there are no nuances, no grays, and no empathy. All transaction...

DATE: Mar 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: In memoriam – The Cat and the Fiddle

In the interest of lightening things up a bit, the Herald’s editorial board would like to thank all the respondents to the question of the ‘mystery organ’ posed by Robert Ambron of Altamonte...

DATE: Mar 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Colorado legislature defends public lands’ values

On Thursday, Mar. 13, the Colorado General Assembly passed a bipartisan resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 25-009, “Protection of Colorado’s Public Lands,” that opposes any federal efforts ...

DATE: Mar 19, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

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Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.