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On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court gave a green light to a 2020 ballot question seeking to repeal the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR – up or down, yes or no. So already we have something to...
DATE: June 18, 2019 | UPDATED: 3 minutes ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
We were briefly discombobulated Monday morning after a Herald reporter spotted a draft resolution on the website of Durango School District 9-R, prepared by administrators for the signature of the...
DATE: June 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One thing we always wondered: When Bob Dylan was growing up in the 1940s in Hibbing, Minnesota, in the home of his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, and one of his schoolmates had a birthday and...
DATE: June 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We heard La Plata County Manager Chuck Stevens at a Durango Chamber of Commerce breakfast last week talking about the 416 Fire. It was a cool, sunny morning. The air was fresh and clear. Stevens,...
DATE: June 15, 2019 | UPDATED: 3 days 1 hour ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
We met a young couple in the Durango Dog Park the other evening who were visiting from Colorado Springs. They did not have a dog, they just wanted to see the park; they had never seen such a big...
DATE: June 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We read an opinion piece in The New York Times the other day entitled “The Democratic Party Is Trying to Downplay Climate Change. Don’t Let It .” What we have seen, in these early days of the...
DATE: June 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
First there was the 8.5 million-pound boulder that moseyed down to a spot alongside Highway 145, between Cortez and Telluride, over Memorial Day weekend. Then, last week, Gov. Jared Polis announced...
DATE: June 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Denver finally has its next mayor, after runoff voting concluded Tuesday night. Democrat Michael Hancock was winning a third term with about 56 percent of the vote when challenger Jamie Giellis, an...
DATE: June 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
W e lead circumspect lives on the whole or so we endeavor, and we must say, people sure are funny over in Walsenburg – a few of them, anyway. Perhaps we should back up: We have nothing against...
DATE: June 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We know a border collie – Charlie is his name – who loves fast water. When he was a pup, he discovered the Clark Fork in Montana. He learned to swim on the Chama, in northern New Mexico. Now he...
DATE: June 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our assault boat hit a sandbar. I looked over the ramp and we were at least 75 yards from the shore... I told the coxswain... to drop the ramp or we were going to die right there.” That is Lt....
DATE: June 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When we pass through cataclysmic times such as the run-up to World War II, there are figures who become vivid for a while despite their dullness and then fade away. Every now and then it is worth...
DATE: June 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
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