Editorials

Our View: ‘Yes’ to Amendment D

This fall’s ballot question Amendment D, if it passes, will be added to Colorado’s Constitution. It is a specific provision…

October 7, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Affordable housing measure a sustainable solution

Housing is a basic need. Without it, we won’t hold onto our working and middle class. Our service workers, our…

October 5, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Utes lead with hydropower

We are pleased to hear the hums and whistles, the sounds of renewable energy on the 7,700-acre Ute Mountain Farm…

October 5, 2022

Opinion

Our View: A reason to believe in 9-R schools

With education playing an elevated role in midterm elections, we are happy to share good news on the local front.…

October 1, 2022

Opinion

‘Cartoon just plain wrong’

Editorial cartoons, especially from the left, are easy to ignore. However, the cartoon on Saturday showing three elephants identified as…

September 30, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Need leadership now on homelessness

With today’s deadline to vacate Purple Cliffs, we’re thinking about artist Wendy Abrams’ stirring exhibit, “Invisible Words,” a curation of…

September 30, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Citizens Agenda model serves voters over politicians

Election season gives the editorial board a front-row seat in meeting and getting to know candidates, whether it’s in person…

September 28, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Science is in: Lonely people don’t vote

Lonely people are less likely to vote. This is proven. Alexander Langenkamp’s study “Lonely Hearts, Empty Booths?: The Relationship between…

September 25, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Honor vets with Camp Hale monument

Camp Hale and the Tenmile Range, which produced the 10th Mountain Division with alpine soldiers who busted through German lines…

September 21, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Is public best served before, after financial record audits?

Citizens have a right to know what the City of Durango is doing financially. That’s a given. The timely question,…

September 17, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Mushrooms to treat mental health: Pass Initiative 58

In the treatment of mental health, psilocybin is too promising to ignore. For this reason, along with legalization’s removal of…

September 14, 2022

Opinion

Our View: How not to polarize voters

The Denver Post’s editorial board made a bold decision in asking four freelance columnists to take a hiatus from writing…

September 10, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Opinion on 1B before elections

Dear readers, when you open The Durango Herald next Saturday, you’ll notice our Weekend Opinion cover page has undergone a…

September 3, 2022

Opinion

Labor Day means something new

Americans rethink how, where, for how much they work

September 3, 2022

Opinion

Bill Roberts: Booze on the ballot

Convenience poor reason to sacrifice community

September 2, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Each transaction says yes or no to inflation

Inflation is front and center in the midterm elections. But don’t fall under the sway of candidates who claim the…

August 31, 2022

Opinion

Our View: D&SNGR: To wave or not to wave

Lately, letters about the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s train whistle have taken up real estate in our Opinion…

August 27, 2022

Opinion

Our View: 4-day school weeks poised to be Southwest standard

Historians are at odds over why school calendars begin in the fall and summer is the season for breaks. Some…

August 24, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Durango divide: Ebikes and those who hate on them

Note the bumper sticker, “Bikes, Durango’s replacement for horses.” Now, we’re witnessing another possible replacement and a sharp Durango divide…

August 20, 2022

Opinion

Bill Roberts: Lack of home does not justify parks, alleys as toilets

It speaks well of Durango and La Plata County that people here recognize both the rights and the humanity of…

August 19, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Lower Dolores River group rare, special

It’s been a long time coming, these extraordinary bipartisan Senate and House bills that propose additional protections for the Lower…

August 17, 2022

Opinion

Climate legislation a significant transition

components easier on wallets, the planet

August 13, 2022

Opinion

Bill Roberts: Excess lodgers tax revenue

would get better answers by asking better questions

August 12, 2022

Opinion

Our View: Time to tap Lake Nighthorse

As long as water flows clear, clean and freely from our faucets, we have a false sense of security. We’re…

August 10, 2022