Author: The Herald editorial board

Colorado added about 745,000 people to its population in the decade ending in 2020, to 5.8 million, with 95% of that growth occurring in a handful of counties along Interstate 25 north and south of Denver. Larimer (Loveland), Weld (Greeley), Adams (Brighton) and Douglas were the winners, if that is how you look at growth…

Last week, the City of Durango, through its elected City Council members, took a first step indicating the seriousness of the city’s commitment to deal with the seemingly intractable problem of affordable, humane housing. On a 4-1 vote, the council approved a unique transfer of funds that will offer $500,000 in support to the residents…

A Herald reader wrote recently of the semantics of housing, pointing out the many ways housing for people of low-to-moderate incomes has been described over the years. “It used to be called ‘low-rent,’ then ‘low-cost,’ then ‘affordable’ and now ‘attainable’ housing. They mean pretty much the same thing,” wrote Larry Whiteside of Bayfield. “Affordable housing”…

It’s not every day that the Opinion page editor receives a letter from a jail inmate. But it’s not unusual for incarcerated people to write journalists about their plights, hoping to find a sympathetic ear. Many journalists have collaborated with prisoners in order to get inside information about nefarious prison operations; others, believing a prisoner’s…

Leadership seems always to be on our minds. We think we know what it is by pointing to heroes such as George Washington, whose greatest act, because his most selfless, was to step down from the American presidency after eight years – but Washington is a remote figure who was gilded with legend before he…

The best and most comprehensive treatment of Abraham Lincoln and his presidency must be Michael Burlingame’s two-volume biography, “Lincoln: A Life,” from 2008. It is an understatement to say Lincoln holds a central place in American history – and that Burlingame on Lincoln is an essential compendium. Yet for all its nearly 2,000 pages, it…

The real Butch Cassidy, born Robert Leroy Parker, in Utah, in 1866 – a first-generation American, son of Mormon immigrants from England – likely would have been lost to posterity and dusty myth-making were it not for the success of the 1969 movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” from a script by William Goldman,…

Start with the picture . It was taken in the first week of March 1992, a photo of a press conference. At the center is 46-year-old Bill Clinton at a pair of microphones. He is flanked by three…read full editorial here.

Coloradans could know that the gray wolf is back in the state a few years after the passage of Proposition 114 on the November ballot. “Know,” not necessarily “see,” because wolves are content to…read full editorial here.

Nearly 25 years ago, The New York Times Magazine ’s John Tierney wrote an essay, “Recycling Is Garbage ,” that, you may not be surprised to hear, set a record for the volume of hate mail the…read full editorial here.