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At the end of last week, Gov. Jared Polis lifted statewide COVID-19 restrictions and left decisions about continued restrictions up to local county public health directors. On its surface, that...
DATE: April 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Coloradans – and especially rural Southwest Coloradans – are in trouble when it comes to health care costs. Prior to the pandemic, some 11.2% of people in Southwest Colorado couldn’t afford medical...
DATE: April 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The recent mass shootings in the Atlanta area and in Boulder, where so many Four Corners folks went to college and have spent time, have sparked grief among us. It’s the kind of grief that...
DATE: April 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community,” wrote social activist Dorothy Day. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have felt lonely, some despite...
DATE: March 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
What was he thinking? That’s the question that comes readily to mind when considering Gov. Jared Polis’ decision to declare Saturday “MeatOut Day.” MeatOut Days were founded in 1985 by the Farm...
DATE: March 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When we first heard about the plastics management bill being introduced into the Colorado Assembly this session, we groaned. In a nutshell, House Bill 21-116 2 will ban the use of single-use...
DATE: March 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When we first heard about the plastics management bill being introduced into the Colorado Assembly this session, we groaned. In a nutshell, House Bill 21-116 2 will ban the use of single-use...
DATE: March 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When Christi Zeller first heard about protesters picketing San Juan Basin Public Health Director Liane Jollon’s house, she thought, “I know what that feels like.” Zeller, executive director of the...
DATE: March 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Hope is breaking out all over. You can almost feel it in the air, as more and more Southwest Colorado residents get vaccinated for COVID-19. Soon, this nightmare will be over, we’re thinking....
DATE: March 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It’s likely that few Americans living today have been properly educated about African-American history. One of us remembers a college political science lecture on the Civil War in which the...
DATE: Feb. 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As you may have read on this page a few months ago, the Durango Herald and The Cortez Journal have a new editorial page editor. This seems like a good time to re-acquaint our readership with the...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials
