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Today, our nation will inaugurate Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th president of the United States. We thought this might be a good time to review some of the previous presidents’ inaugural...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
What do we want Durango to become? What can be done to make this beloved hometown and second home to many more livable, more sustainable, more friendly? Questions like that underpin the Herald’s...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
What happened Jan. 6 at the nation’s Capitol was a shocking attack on our democracy as well as a literal attack on the building, our legislators and the workers who were in it at the time. Those...
DATE: Jan. 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
On Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, managers at San Juan Basin Public Health gathered to discuss how they might prepare for the coming COVID-19 pandemic. They had no idea what to expect. And like the rest of...
DATE: Jan. 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
What must the city do to maintain Durango’s unique identity and avoid becoming just another Colorado mountain resort town? That was one of the key questions raised in two Zoom webinar meetings...
DATE: Jan. 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The storming of the nation’s Capitol on Wednesday afternoon – a raw and mindless attempt to express allegiance to a president who has repeatedly driven Americans apart with his self-centered and...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Durango City Council will hold its regular online meeting this evening, and may end up spending some of that meeting in executive session – ostensibly for the purpose of discussing the...
DATE: Jan. 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Letters that appeared on The Durango Herald’s opinion pages in 2020 reflected the breadth of issues in La Plata County and the variety of perspectives that can be applied. In the first few months...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It’s a new day for the oil and gas industry and the many Coloradans it impacts. That’s because new state regulations governing the industry go into effect Jan. 15, thanks to the work of the remade...
DATE: Dec. 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Daniel Bergman has heard it all, every possible irrational, misinformed, paranoid idea about COVID-19 and the vaccines. A few examples: Bill Gates created the virus. The vaccine is a female...
DATE: Dec. 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Durango Herald editorial board has decided to add a new element to our opinion pages in 2021 – and we want your help. We’re going to identify four or five special topics that we will examine...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
cq ReidOut Tectonic changes are happening in the television news business, changes that are going to forever alter the scope of the news we consume – and in a good way. On Dec. 7 MSNBC named...
DATE: Dec. 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
