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Hollis Walker
Position: Opinion editor
Email: hwalker@durangoherald.com
Phone Number: (970), 375-4522

Rep. Barbara McLachlan: Playing “Mother, May I?” and “High Hurdles”

My last few weeks have been filled with Zooms, phone calls and research concerning a Legislative Game combining “Mother, May I?” with the High Hurdles. It’s been grueling and chal...

DATE: Mar 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Paul Krugman: Too much choice is a bad thing

Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, is clearly what my father would have called a piece of work. Early in the pandemic he made headlines by saying that older Americans ...

DATE: Mar 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Dan Harms: How reliable is our power supply in Southwest Colorado?

It has been an epic month for the national power grid, with severe weather causing rolling blackouts in Texas and widespread power outages across the United States. In the wake of...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Charles Blow: Four great migrations are underway

The humanitarian and infrastructure disaster that followed Texas’ winter storm illustrates that catastrophic weather events may soon become less freak occurrences and more part of an unremit...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Jenn Lopez: Calling for a bold, comprehensive affordable housing strategy

I can trace my career in affordable housing back to 1994 when I was a junior at Fort Lewis College and began plotting my permanent residency in Durango. Once I learned that the m...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Writers on the Range: Put unemployed miners, drillers to work in restoration

Farmington, a city of 45,000 in the northwestern corner of New Mexico, has run on a fossil fuel economy for a century. It is one of the only places on the planet where a 26-kiloton nuclear d...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Iyahna Calton: Celebrating Black History Month at Fort Lewis College

I have to be honest: Black History Month is both rewarding and discouraging to me as a student leader on the Fort Lewis College campus. I love celebrating Black culture and what ...

DATE: Feb 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Duane “Chili” Yazzie: Energy corporations need to meet ‘Indigenous mind’

The energy development interest is mired in a mindset that says there is nothing wrong with how they do business. The first impulse is to oppose any suggestions that energy development could...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Paul Krugman: A Plot to Help America’s Children

Democrats seem ready to enact major economic relief legislation. The package will be big, with a price tag probably close to the Biden administration’s proposed $1.9 trillion. But the bulk o...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Don Coram: Could Gov. Polis be wearing one blue, one red shoe?

The second round of the 73rd General Assembly is underway. We met for three days starting on Jan. 13, then recessed until Feb. 16. It is great to get back to something that slightly resemble...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mitch McConnell condemns Trump, but refuses to convict

Editor’s note: Following is a transcript of Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s speech made after McConnell voted not to impeach former President Donald Trump. McConnell went on to say he...

DATE: Feb 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Gail Collins: Do not, under any circumstances, Press 1

Lately, I’ve been having conversations with robocallers. I take this as a sign that the pandemic has gone on way too long. “My name is Eve with Discovery Health Care,” one call be...

DATE: Feb 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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