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Cochran: Veteran comments on free speech

As a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, I am vehemently opposed to NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem of the country that provides them a home where they make millions of dollars a...

DATE: Dec 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Universal health care makes fiscal sense

The Bayfield Library showed the film “Fix It: Health Care at the Tipping Point.” Lots of folks came. I learned that going to universal health care – where everyone is covered – w...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A big Christmas present for the wealthy

Seventy years ago, the “strong America” that we remember and would like to have back was built during times when the wealthy paid their share. During the Eisenhower presidency, a...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

County land plan is a socialist’s dream

First, I would like to write what I believe about socialists. Socialists want to take my money and give it to someone else. Socialists think they know better how I should live my life than I...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Flashing yellow lights are a big problem

When will CDOT realize the flashing yellow lights are not always working? I have seen two accidents and sat in long lines of traffic due to accidents at the Camino del Rio and frontage road ...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The problem is not Twitter; it’s Trump

In response to Pam Halencak’s letter to the editor (Herald, Nov. 18) in which she salutes President Trump’s transparency through his use of Twitter, respectfully, I’d like to say that she is...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Last tax cut led to the Great Recession

I hear claims that the GOP tax bill would bring jobs. Yet the last time corporations were able to repatriate money in 2004, they used it to buy back shares and increase executive salaries. ...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Attend meetings to learn about new code

La Plata County has embarked on a new land use code. Every property owner needs to pay attention as it could have an appreciable effect as to what one could do with private property as well ...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

FLC’s problems run deeper than name

So, the powers that be think that the enrollment problems at Fort Lewis College can be ameliorated by changing the name of the college. Harvard on the Animas? Stanford La Plata? ...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks to owner for efforts at Purgatory

I went up to Purgatory last Tuesday to make some runs. I have a few thoughts. The ribbon of snow I skied did not just appear from nowhere. It takes a lot of money for electricity...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

News on airport funding possibilities

Great news to read in The Wall Street Journal that Congress is finally considering raising the airport passenger facility fee, which has not been increased in 17 years. Higher fa...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The astonishing Sen. Cory Gardner

Here is what Sen. Cory Gardner stated after the Alabama senate election: “Tonight’s results are clear – the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. ...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor