Author: The Herald editorial board

Joyful, joyful we exhort thee Durangoans, and rurals, too; Shopping is your civic duty Holidays’r upon us soon. Help our merchants keep doors open; Nearby find the gifts you seek; You have pow’r to make an impact, If any kind of sales you ring! We apologize to the late Henry Van Dyke, who wrote the…

We still have lessons to learn from Jimmy Carter. …read full editorial here.

Here is one of the most puzzling indicators of American social welfare: In 2016, federal government data showed Black infants were more than twice as likely to die as white infants – 11.3 per 1,000 Black babies versus 4.9 per 1,000 white babies. More, this racial disparity is wider today than it was in 1850,…

Two citizen initiatives for this November’s statewide ballot may have beaten the Aug. 3 deadline, promising voters a healthy range of choices about how they wish to spend their money. Initiative 295 seeks voter approval for the creation of any new significant state enterprise that will depend on revenue derived from fees. The intent seems…

It has been a while since we commented on the dubious usefulness of Twitter when it comes to journalism (“Angry birds: Is Twitter making us useless?” Feb. 7, 2019). At the time, we were appalled by the treatment of Nicholas Sandmann. In January of 2019, Sandmann was on a field trip, near the Lincoln Memorial…

On June 19, at the height of protests in Denver and elsewhere over civil rights and the killing of George Floyd, Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a package of police accountability measures …read full editorial here.

In 1821, a child was born in Limestone County, Alabama, the youngest of nine, who would win a certain renown. Then it would turn to infamy. The boy went to public schools, college, studied law, and became a lieutenant with the Alabama Volunteers in the Mexican-American War. Then he moved to Northern California, where he…

We would like to think well of Denver. It is a big, modern city that used to have brewpubs and at least the simulacra of culture, as well as shopping, and still has roughly 2.8 million of the…read full editorial here.

When “The West Wing” entered its fourth season, in late 2002, Aaron Sorkin, its creator, writer and producer, was forced to abandon the show after increasing personal problems, including an arrest for possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms. This was almost fitting because the premise of the show, that in an alternate America there was a good…

We’d hoped this day was coming but we were starting to wonder whether it would ever arrive when we got word Wednesday that the long Colorado Bureau of Investigation examination of city finances had…read the full editorial here.