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Speaking in Phoenix on Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced his plan to help troubled homeowners. As with almost everything from the federal government of late it involves billions of...
DATE: Feb. 19, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
You may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and have dreams. One dream many share is that Americans will give up their love affair with suburban sprawl and will rediscover...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Michael Bennet, Colorado's newest U.S. senator, made a good impression in Durango last weekend. He drew a large crowd at the public library, and with The Durango Herald's Editorial Board (and...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The American Red Cross fills a vital and often unheralded role in the United States as the organization that assists families when disaster strikes. That aid comes during times when people most...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
"Not since the Great Depression." "Not since the 1930s." You hear those phrases a lot these days, and with some reason. So, it may be worthwhile to look back at Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and...
DATE: Feb. 16, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Durango area owes much of its history to mining, and with that debt comes all that the industry entails: the boom times as well as the busts; the benefits and the consequences. As mineral...
DATE: Feb. 16, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The La Plata County Humane Society has had its share of controversy over the years. From organizational quarrels to a pet owner wrongly equating it to a death camp for dogs, a group that exists...
DATE: Feb. 13, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
BANGALORE, India - Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate our economy: immigration."All you need to do is grant visas to 2 million Indians, Chinese and...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Monday, a reporter asked President Barack Obama if he would reverse the policy banning news organizations from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins containing the remains of U.S. military...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2009 | CATEGORY: Editorials
