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Opinion

Bennet should stay focused and fight in D.C.

Sen. Michael Bennet has announced he’s ready to be our next state executive, and is trying to run for governor while working full time in a very busy, very difficult Congress. For progressi...

LPEA board playing politics with subsidies

The article on LPEA election finance was interesting (Herald, June 29). LPEA CEO Chris Hansen tells us that we deliver power to some members at a price below cost. He also tells us that LPEA...

Setting the record straight on transparency

The recent editorial, “Our View: Transparency: ‘Behind closed doors’ not uncommon, or illegal, but the public deserves to know of settlements,” (Herald, July 6) misrepresents how Durango Sch...

Colorado needs to get rid of TABOR

During the 33 years since TABOR was enacted, the federal government has paid for a lot of things that Colorado needs: Medicare, Medicaid, wildland firefighting, the National Weather Service,...

Clyde and Paulette Church made our community better

I am sure Clyde and Paulette Church will retire to enjoying their time with each other. Many in La Plata County and Durango may not know this husband and wife team have elevated the bar of w...

Poem to the Editor: The Ice House

In the old days, before so many had refrigerators, there were what were called ice houses. In the summer of 1960, we visited one in Texas, on the way to Lake Texoma. So we today who learned...

Rep. Hurd, you voted against your district

Nothing says I am afraid to hear from my constituents like having no staff in your Durango office. I dropped by to express my concerns regarding the “BBB” and there was no one there and no o...

Affordable power matters to all local businesses

Your recent coverage of the LPEA election and James Coleman’s donations (Herald, June 29) leaves the misleading impression that Purgatory Resort received special treatment on electric rates....

What keeps me from renewing my subscription

Besides wanting to be better informed about local Durango happenings, I would like to support the local newspaper as a subscriber. However, I am turned off by the significant political bias....

No soul, no humanity, no decency, no empathy

The abomination that is the Florida detention center is a clear misnomer. Alligator Alcatraz? The prisoners of Alcatraz were give due process; they had the right to counsel and a trial by ju...

America is being hollowed out from the inside

In January, Donald Trump declared war – not on a foreign adversary, but on the institutions that make American democracy work. With the stroke of a pen, he laid off tens of thousands of neut...

Big bill a big toll on rural health care

With all the confusion and unverified claims flying around the so-called “Big, Wonderful Bill,” as President Donald Trump calls it, I’m hoping Hope Scheppelman or someone from the La Plata C...
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