Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our View: COVID-19 state restrictions: lifted too soon?

Were state restrictions lifted too soon?

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Durango’s unsheletered are us

Recently, we received a letter to the editor in which the author claimed that most people who are homeless in Durango are from “somewhere else” and should go back there. We heard the echo of...

DATE: Apr 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: D&SNGR, Rockwood residents should jointly resolve issues

Work together to solve Rockwood issues

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Health care bill steps in the right direction

Health care bill steps in right direction

DATE: Apr 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Durango Mesa bike park races forward

While everyone’s been bandying about the phrase “sustainable tourism” like it’s the solution to all our town’s woes – and secretly wondering what sustainable tourism really means – Durango M...

DATE: Apr 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Lodgers tax vote sends signals on tourism marketing

Durango City Council election results and the approval of an increased lodgers tax, based on preliminary results tallied earlier this week, affirmed the community’s concern for a healthy bus...

DATE: Apr 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: FLC’s Grub Hub models how to help others

Students helping students at FLC

DATE: Apr 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: In wake of shootings, grief

The recent mass shootings in the Atlanta area and in Boulder, where so many Durangoans went to college and have spent time, have sparked grief among us. It’s the kind of grief th...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Jail inmate is grateful for vaccine

It’s not every day that the Opinion page editor receives a letter from a jail inmate. But it’s not unusual for incarcerated people to write journalists about their plights, hopin...

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Vote Youssef, Bosmans, Furtney for City Council

Voters in the Durango City Council election that ends at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, have time to drop their ballots in the drop boxes around town, but they should not put them in the mail betw...

DATE: Mar 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: City, county move in the right direction on homelessness

City of Durango, La Plata County explore new direction for unsheletered

DATE: Mar 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our View: Sorrow and celebration

Sometimes “all the news that’s fit to print” seems to be bad news. Monday’s slaughter of innocent people in a Boulder grocery store is just the latest example. Our hearts go out ...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials