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Our View: Threat of authoritarianism is real

This week, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who came to power in 2010 with his Fidesz Party, has taken over the Orbán already has taken over Hungary’s judiciary and news media, refuse...

Barbara McLachlan: Colorado agriculture is nonpartisan

My grandfather was a mover and shaker in the Colorado sugar-beet industry with Great Western Sugar, and he was also a professor of agriculture at Colorado State University. But the agricultu...

Mike Littwin: Gun-violence bills in state won’t be matched in Congress

Give credit to Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg and others in the state legislature who, in the wake of the Boulder King Soopers shooting, are trying to actually do something about gun v...

Lawrence S. Wittner: Despite COVID-19, other crises, major powers increased military spending in 2020

Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe econ...

Editorial cartoons

Letter: Keep COVID-19 statistics front and center

In response to Paul Savin’s letter ( In viewing our statistics in relation to other areas, I can clearly see the effect that reduced vigilance has on those communities and no matter how tir...

Letter: Republicans are primary practitioners of voter suppression

Saying that both major political parties practice voter suppression ( Yes, gerrymandering is employed by both parties, and there are laws in Colorado and elsewhere that make it hard for ind...

Zoom with the Herald Community on Friday!

Join Opinion Page Editor Hollis Walker and other Durangoans at noon Friday, April 30, to talk about Doing Business Better, one of our FOCUS 2021 topics. Email her at hwalker@durangoherald.co...

Letter: Democrats open to working with all comers

Jack Turner’s recent column equating Georgia’s new Jim Crow voting law to the challenges faced by unaffiliated candidates seeking office in Colorado is unfortunate. The Georgia law is a not-...

Letter: She’s heard the train a comin’ for nearly 98 years

I have lived in Durango most of my life, I am now 98 years old. I have never heard so much complaining about our train. Folks, it’s been here longer than you or me. Also, it is a great a...

Editorial cartoons

Writers on the Range: Pumping up fear on the Colorado River

Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé and found the family trembling and weeping. They pointed to the ceiling, where an axe w...