Author: The Herald editorial board

Remember when you were a kid and you had to do all kinds of things to prevent jinxes? Well, we’ve got our eyes, fingers and legs crossed, because it looks like the MidTown Renewal Area might be on the verge of actually happening. That’s a big wow. The MidTown Renewal Area (MRA) is the first…

While President Biden and his new appointees are busy examining the last administration’s actions, we’d like to suggest a good look at the wasteful, discriminatory and useless aspects of the 2005 REAL ID Act and its consequences. As most people are probably aware, by October 2021 Americans who drive must have licenses with a special…

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…read full editorial here.

Shortly, 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 45 previous presidents’ inaugural speeches. The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library makes this a simple (and fascinating) online undertaking…

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…read full editorial here.

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 potential purchase of the FIS Worldpay building on the south side of town. Under Colorado’s Open Meetings Act, a two-thirds vote is required…

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…read full editorial here.

For five years now, Donna Kimmel of Oklahoma City has been crocheting hats and donating them to Durangoans in need. “I start about August, and I have a goal,” the 71-year-old Kimmel said. …read full editorial here.

In recent days, we have heard a lot about the government’s investigations into antitrust activities by the four behemoth tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. “Well, good,” a lot of …read full editorial here.

The Durango High School football team has already made history with its quarterfinal and semifinal victories in Colorado’s Class 3A football playoff competition this fall. Saturday, the team will…read full editorial here.