Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our view: Shine light on 9-R funding, not CORA

The Durango School District 9-R Board of Education has identified its state legislative priorities for 2025, the first two of which focus on sustaining K-12 funding (Herald, Jan 3.). A third...

DATE: Jan 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: James Earl Carter Jr., lessons from a man of peace, democracy and human rights

Much has been written about Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who served from 1977 to 1981, and died at 100 on Dec. 29. People will tell you he was a decent, honest and e...

DATE: Jan 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: Significant issues to engage in 2025

We are four days into the new year, and have some thoughts about the shape and form of what could be in store locally for 2025. The year begins with Durango’s April election that could conti...

DATE: Jan 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Events go, and come; calendar needed

We just said goodbye to another year and over a dozen of Durango’s best (Herald, Dec. 29). To that list, we must add the Hesperus Ski Area and the Four Corners Folk Festival, two iconic Sout...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Put down the phone

One of the 18 new laws that go into effect today concerns the use of mobile electronic devices while driving (Herald, Dec. 27). In an effort to improve road safety and reduce accidents cause...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: 2024 goodbyes, thank-yous

Our community is made up of incredible people. Talented, dedicated, working to make our little corner of the state a better place. Every year we lose some of the best, prematurely or natural...

DATE: Dec 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Our view: 2024 in letters

Letter writers’ interests and concerns in 2024 couldn’t have been more varied; even a partial review might better begin with “here’s what wasn’t shared.” But that wouldn’t make this look-bac...

DATE: Dec 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Ellen Stein returns to Opinion section

In the new year, Ellen Stein will assume the full-time responsibilities of Opinion Editor for The Durango Herald and The Journal in Cortez after significantly contributing to the varied cont...

DATE: Dec 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: For parents in crisis, a hand-off solution

In early January 2022, in freezing winter conditions in Hobbs, New Mexico, a woman was caught on surveillance camera depositing her newborn in a plastic garbage bag in a dumpster behind a sh...

DATE: Dec 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: A season for mercy

In a fun twist on the White House tradition of sparing the life of at least one turkey around Thanksgiving, the mayor of Florida’s Miami-Dade County has for the seventh year running issued a...

DATE: Dec 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: No Saturday, no Sunday and no city employee free parking

At some point in Durango’s future, let’s say the end of 2049, the downtown’s several blocks will be vehicle-free, negotiated solely by foot, on bicycle and an electric-powered trolley. Even ...

DATE: Dec 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: ‘Good Sam’: Common sense legislation for mine cleanup

“A huge win. We did the impossible. It’s been a long time coming.” So said Ty Churchwell, Trout Unlimited’s national mining coordinator, who, with TU colleagues and hundreds of other partner...

DATE: Dec 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials