Opinion Our View: Need presidential debate moderator like Denver anchor Kyle Clark Televised political debates can go in any number of directions. Sometimes wacky or even out of this world. For former… June 21, 2024
Opinion Our View: Dolores monument proposal depends on compromise mix of users coming together over possibilities June 19, 2024
Opinion Our View: Trail rerouting off Bosmans’ property comes down to semantics In early spring, frequent hikers of the trail named for Charles Dale Rea, along the east side of the Animas… June 16, 2024
Opinion Our View: Colorado GOP chair Williams must go In conversations with GOP candidates and Republican voters, we’ve been detecting an undercurrent of frustration – growing more seismic by… June 14, 2024
Opinion Our View: Hurd out to ‘make local – not national – headlines’ Hurdcca Former Aspen city councilor Adam Frisch, whom we endorsed in the 2022 3rd Congressional District race narrowly won by… June 12, 2024
Opinion Our View: Visit Durango’s accounting needs serious transparency Tourism organization’s invoices much too vague June 7, 2024
Opinion Our View: Trump supporters know better – invoices, signed checks prove guilt Despite the sizzle and spectacle that was the People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, the… June 5, 2024
Opinion My View: What person spreads tacks to take out Iron Horse riders? SwanJerry McBride What kind of person (or persons) would spread industrial-duty tacks to take out riders of Memorial Day weekend’s… June 2, 2024
Opinion Our View: Time for permanent Southern Ute flags at Ignacio schools As flags represent identities, values, cultural heritage and aspirations, it makes good sense that Southern Ute Indian Tribe students attending… May 31, 2024
Opinion Memorial Day weekend Horse Bicycle Classic, concert at Durango Mesa Park just two events planned May 23, 2024
Opinion Culture welcome in commencement regalia Farmington High School administration erred in denying student beaded, feathered mortarboard May 21, 2024
Opinion Our View: Seed, plant exchanges share much wisdom As we stuff our Opinion section with commentaries of the day – our own editorial pages inside news pages crowded… May 8, 2024
Opinion Thank you, poets We appreciate all that readers shared on their minds in April for National Poetry Month, which honors and celebrates poets… May 8, 2024
Opinion ‘Herald missed story’ on Bayfield election That MAGA-type politics have seeped into local nonpartisan elections is alarming. Apparently, in some people’s minds, the Bayfield Town Board… May 5, 2024
Opinion Our View: Share what’s appropriate in hiring public health director On Monday, the Board of Health, which oversees the new La Plata County Public Health, exited an hourlong executive session… May 5, 2024
Opinion Our View: Southwest residents too vulnerable in Anthem, CommonSpirit impasse A news story on Wednesday in The Durango Herald captured the plight of a Durango family, the Hunters, snagged between… May 3, 2024
Opinion Our View: Unsure whether student demonstrations will be historical markers in Gaza War There’s an old joke that makes room for college students to try on and explore who they are. Oftentimes, that… May 1, 2024
Opinion Our View: Clarification first on 1984 Act in annexation talks Tribe, city reference same legislation April 26, 2024
Opinion Our View: Secretary Griswold can show more restraint Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has not held back comments about Donald Trump, calling him an insurrectionist in tweets,… April 24, 2024
Opinion My View: Notes from Rocky’s newsroom during Columbine SwanJerry McBride I worked at the former Rocky Mountain News in Denver when on April 20, 1999, at 11:23 a.m.,… April 21, 2024
Opinion Our View: What will it take to fund La Plata’s roads and bridges? If cultural references give perspective to when La Plata County’s 8.5 mill levy was approved in 1991, the movies “The… April 19, 2024
Opinion Our View: 420 events mark evolution of marijuana movement Before Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, 2014, cannabis enthusiasts’ annual, iconic holiday on April 20, to ritualistically… April 17, 2024