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The unanimous vote by the Dolores School District Re-4A Board of Education to approve a raise in teacher salaries for the 2018-19 school year was the right move, even if in financial terms the...
DATE: June 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In the past couple of weeks, area high schools have graduated a class of fine young people whose accomplishments and ambitions are evidence that a lot is going right in our hometowns and our...
DATE: May 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One of the challenges of environmental protection is that human activity produces pollution. Driving is a good example, from the extraction of mineral resources that eventually will become a...
DATE: May 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Bob Harms of Durango is a part-time poet. Very part-time. Harms, now retired from a firefighting career and a grandfather of four, writes just one poem a year, during the holiday season. The poems...
DATE: May 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
On Thursday, as a fitting start to the second annual Colorado Public Lands Day – celebrated Saturday – a bipartisan bill led by Sen. Michael Bennet naming two local mountain peaks after two...
DATE: May 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Environmental activist Rose Chilcoat and her husband, Mark Franklin, go to court this month to answer felony charges related to closing a corral gate on a federal grazing lease in San Juan County,...
DATE: May 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In March, the Bureau of Land Management sold oil and gas leases on parcels totaling 51,400 acres in southeastern Utah, including some near Hovenweep National Monument (Journal, April 20 ). That’s...
DATE: May 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In Montezuma County, there is a single school board seat that is chosen not at-large but by the residents of that district. The reason for this outlier is to increase the likelihood that someone...
DATE: May 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The legal notices that governmental entities pay to place in newspapers as a means of informing the public have played an important role in informing citizens about the actions of their government...
DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Last Friday, over 3,000 teachers from over a dozen school districts gathered at the Capitol to demand an increase in state funding for public education. One of the outcomes of inadequate funding –...
DATE: May 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The headline read: “Child poverty persists in Southwest Colorado despite low unemployment” (Journal, April 2 ). That’s just one nutshell of information from the “2018 Kids Count in Colorado!” an...
DATE: April 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In the frightening aftermath of the Dust Bowl, the Soil Conservation Service was established to protect the country’s soil from erosion and depletion. For more than 80 years, conservation districts...
DATE: April 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Herald readers share their photos from the 416 Fire and support of firefighting efforts. If you have photos to share, please email claws@bcimedia.com. Reminder: do not go to the fire to take photos. Please stay clear of the area. Also, do not fly drones over the fire area; it is illegal.
