Editorials - The Durango Herald

Our view: State shouldn’t stymie information requests now

This is not time for state government to roadblock pandemic information

DATE: Apr 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: What a year for Durango’s leader

Mayor Melissa Youssef leaves office after managing unprecedented events

DATE: Apr 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Allen Ginsberg and America talking to itself

We noticed with a brief pang the other day that it was the anniversary of the death of a great American poet. Allen Ginsberg succumbed at just 70, in New York, to liver cancer, on April 5, 1...

DATE: Apr 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: How free are we now?

This pandemic could soon test the value of safety versus civil liberty

DATE: Apr 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Plague Journal: A Fifth Great Awakening?

Can we use this time of isolation to become more mindful? Yes, indeed

DATE: Apr 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: School’s out ... forever?

In some places, it may not come back in as classrooms are reborn with distance

DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: The master retires for good

Mad magazine artist Mort Drucker loved what he skewered

DATE: Apr 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Or view: Well goodbye, Bernie

An ideologue goes down on aisle three

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Goodbye, bridge

What we cannot say is that we hardly knew it – we knew it all too well

DATE: Apr 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Plague Journal: The suspicion of strangers

In hard times, atomized natures are plainer and up go the barricades

DATE: Apr 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: An unlikely friendship

When Italy met its dark hour in this pandemic, Albania was there

DATE: Apr 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: The fine art of distance

In 1970, board game maker Parker Brothers introduced Masterpiece, in which players vied for famous works of art at auction. In the 1976 edition, the works came from the collection of the Art...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials