Author: The Herald editorial board

Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District covers the Western Slope to Wyoming and across the southern part of the state to Pueblo. It is a district that has favored the individual over the party, although Republican Scott Tipton of Cortez has held the seat since 2010. He would like a sixth term. Opposing Tipton in the primary…

Saturday afternoon, Jack Turner and Charly Minkler were collecting signatures (in the La Plata County Commission race) in the parking lot in front of Durango High School. Their supporters were on the curb waving signboards as if there was a going-out-of-business sale. Just the opposite. Early in the afternoon, both Turner and Winkler said they…

On Friday, May 29, as cities burned, and with all the drama fit for a time just before midnight in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Supreme Court took the unusual step of batting down an emergency petition that claimed Gov. Gavin Newsom had violated Californians’ First Amendment rights and discriminated against religion, in pandemic orders that…

You hear it all the time these days, in articles, news reports and public service announcements: If you have COVID-like symptoms and you want to get a test, call your doctor – or your family doctor, or your primary care physician; problem solved. And lately we feel like yelling at the newspaper or the TV…

One measure of how things could turn further for the worse amid a pandemic came with the waves of civil unrest that consumed city after American city last weekend. Not only were thoughts of social distancing at public gatherings suddenly moot as big-box stores and police stations were destroyed, but we were treated to criticism…

So much trouble in the future could be avoided if we could only learn from the past and heed the dicta: Pay the troops – and pay their bonuses. …read full editorial here.

We look forward to the results of Durango’s electric vehicle readiness plan…read full editorial here.

In early 1932, Franklin Roosevelt’s advisers were divided about how …read the full editorial here.