Editorials - The Durango Herald

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

Our view: Just two DOGEs make sense

To be clear, what the Department of Government Efficiency – not a real department, nor a legitimate ‘leader’ – is doing and how they are doing it, unconstitutionally, without the approval of...

DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our View: Legislature making progress to encourage reasonable gun use

Gavels have been drawn over the gun-related bills introduced so far into the 2025 legislative session. Of the four introduced, two in the House and two in the Senate, only three have advance...

DATE: Feb 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: The promise of government

A form of the adage, “Good things come to those who wait,” hit home on Thursday (Herald, Feb. 13) when Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, and Rep. Jeff Hurd, introduced a bipartisan...

DATE: Feb 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: The president with a cudgel: When will Republicans end it?

Is there nothing in the federal government that Donald Trump doesn’t want to pull apart and destroy, behaving as though his election victory gives him unlimited authority? Internally, he has...

DATE: Feb 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Pre K-12 could be a Colorado budget target

Work has been underway at the state Capitol since the beginning days of the legislative session to tackle the sizable shortfall in the state’s fiscal year, which begins in July. Costs, tied ...

DATE: Feb 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: ‘The gut’ does the military no good

There are several images in President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the second just a week old, that will remain in the public’s mind: his escalator descent smearing all Mexican immigr...

DATE: Feb 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: 9-R, Durango, a community of acceptance and support

Welcome to February, and Black History Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness of African Americans’ struggle for freedom and equal opportunity, and celebrating the accomplishments of B...

DATE: Feb 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Keep public lands in public hands, a refrain

The U.S. currently holds $36.22 trillion in debt. That is a staggering figure creating rightful concern among Americans. It is also set to increase under President Donald Trump’s promise to...

DATE: Feb 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Southwest Colorado drought projects must be funded

Exactly one week ago, the Southwestern Water Conservation District, the Southwestern Water Conservation and Infrastructure Partnership and its 37 regional partners celebrated a $25.6 million...

DATE: Jan 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Call to readers re: freeze on federal funding

A memo from the White House budget office on Monday placed a freeze on all federal government grant and loan disbursements, and other financial assistance, effective Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 5 p....

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials