Opinion

There’s a concept called “demand management” in the news in Colorado, and here’s a simple definition: Landowners get paid to temporarily stop irrigating, and that water gets sent downstream to hang...

When Joe Biden is sworn in on Inauguration Day, he will be 78, the oldest president to take the oath of office since the birth of our republic. No shortage of observers on the left and the right...

Veteran journalist Hollis Walker has joined the Herald as its editorial page editor. Walker has journalism degrees from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and wrote and edited for nine...

Barack Obama – his policies and his posture – just won a third term. Joe Biden will be president because of his close association with Obama, because he espoused many of the same centrist...

When stay-at-home restrictions, physical distancing and masking became important for reducing transmission of COVID-19, we all learned something about loneliness and the importance of our social...

On second thought, what I should have said about the Trump-Biden debate (Letters, Sept. 30) was we have a new act for a comedy routine on TV. Not Abbot and Costello, but the Smothers Brothers, live...

By Kent Thiry, Michael Johnston and Joe Zimlich In 2003, Colorado voters were asked to repeal the state’s so-called Gallagher Amendment. Gallagher’s approach to property taxes was already starting...

A big to-do was made recently of a group of Miller Middle School students who organized a climate change rally and march downtown after school. Some ended up making what were described as “vulgar...

Just finished reading your article on San Juan Basin Public Health reducing the capacity to 25% occupancy at businesses. I would like the SJBPH to show me proof that the spread of the virus has...

This fall, nearly every local student – at Fort Lewis College or in 9-R schools – had an option to learn in person. Nationally, only 19% of districts offered a full in-person option and less than...

Dear Durango Herald editors: I would like to thank the voters for selecting me as the next La Plata County commissioner from District 2. Thank you to the people who voted for me. It was a close...