Our view: LPEA Elections
Two incumbents, one former elected official will continue momentum, bridge past and future
DATE: Apr 27, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: FLC fell short when it canceled talk
Jackson Clark II knows his way around the Navajo Reservation of Arizona and New Mexico, and the pueblos along the Rio Grande Valley. He has continued – no, greatly grown – his parents’ trade...
DATE: Apr 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: No barriers to records
Colorado’s legislature has not been entirely supportive of media access in recent sessions, the Democrats enjoying crafting legislation without the public looking on. A major example was the...
DATE: Apr 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: Become Fire-Wise on Tuesday
While there was snow at the higher elevations at the end of the week, La Plata County was largely dry, as it was most of this winter. Lower temperatures with recent moisture momentarily dark...
DATE: Apr 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: Shorter run-ups, please
They’re off to the races. We wish it were not so soon.
For term-limited Jared Polis’ seat, we’re aware of state Sen. Mark Baisley’s and state Rep. Scott Bottoms’ campaigns for the governor’s...
DATE: Apr 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: Looking out for mom and pop
Senate Bill 33, signed by Gov. Jared Polis last Thursday (Herald, Apr. 11), will provide a lifeline to independent liquor stores in Colorado by preventing any more of the largest grocery...
DATE: Apr 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: Gov. Polis signs firearms’ law
Years ago, a gun safety class was the socially accepted, no hesitation, expectation for owning a gun. Gun safety was at the core of how the National Rifle Association built its following. Be...
DATE: Apr 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: This week – Hurd, meters, lands and a college presidency
Congressman Jeff Hurd, who represents Western and southern Colorado, is challenging the president by being one of two Republicans in the House so far to sign onto a bill that asserts Congres...
DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: Bluegrass Rules!
The initiated will know the headline refers to a 1997 Grammy award winning album of the same name by Ricky Skaggs, an American new traditional country and bluegrass musician, singer, compose...
DATE: Apr 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: State budget work - small reductions and large unknowns
Colorado legislators this week are engrossed in shaping a state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 that sheds a looming $1.2 billion shortfall, layered with only a suggestion of the...
DATE: Apr 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our view: State Veterans Affairs in Ignacio
Gas and food cards to aid travel to health care appointments, housing in just about every community, grant applications for organizations that are a challenge to complete, and then to report...
DATE: Apr 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion
Our view: ‘Then they came for me’
By now, most have heard of the Mar. 25 “taking” of the Tufts University Ph.D. student, Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, in Somerville, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb. The term, along with ‘disappeared’ i...
DATE: Apr 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials
