Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our View: Churches

Ministers are struggling through COVID-19, too Like everyone else, we have found ourselves considering the costs that COVID-19 so far has exacted from our lives and our community, and recent...

DATE: Aug 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Ethics

Lauren Boebert’s tardy disclosure shows spouse earns big from oil and gas industry

DATE: Aug 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Ohana Kuleana

Community garden should be saved

DATE: Aug 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Tree tales

Once upon a time in a small university town, a college president about the height of Napoleon and with a matching complex decided he wanted to build a parking lot on the site of a large park...

DATE: Aug 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Fire district

Complicated history influences school property sale

DATE: Aug 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Good choices

9-R made the right choice on masks School District 9-R board members were subjected to interruptions and shouting in a meeting last week as they voted unanimously to require masks in classro...

DATE: Aug 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Housing

Potential hotel conversion could ease housing crisis Since January, as part of our FOCUS 2021 series of editorials, we’ve been addressing the lack of affordable housing and housing for unshe...

DATE: Aug 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Miller site

Questions remain on best school location

DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: 9-R sale

Proposed sale to fire district is still a bad idea

DATE: Aug 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Yes, masks

Our new Durango School District 9-R Superintendent Karen Cheser already has waded into deep waters with some significant and contentious issues to sort out, including the sale of the 9-R Adm...

DATE: Aug 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Ready to compost?

Anybody remember the “Garden Song”? “Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow Gonna mulch it deep and low Gonna make it fertile ground …” Written by David Mallett in 1975, accord...

DATE: Aug 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: New Guardians

Language reflects the times, and new words, phrases and memes help us understand how our culture is shifting. How to use language to confer respect and inclusion of people unlike oneself can...

DATE: Jul 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials