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Coram’s charter school vote was wrong

State Sen. Don Coram (R-Montrose) wrote a guest column regarding his vote on Senate Bill 61, the bill to equalize funding for public charter school students in Colorado. He voted...

DATE: Jun 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Get involved with Tres Rios travel plan

I am hoping for greater public involvement in the Tres Rios Travel Management Plan. While anyone can understand the need to control duplicate routes, closing historical, scenic o...

DATE: Jun 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Gun safety rally was about gun control

The liberals are at it again. As with “global cooling” doing the oh-so convenient morph into “global warming” then into “climate change” while Miami remains high, or dry, the gun...

DATE: Jun 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Counting on Gardner to do the right thing

As the U.S. Senate considers the future of healthcare in the United States, we need Sen. Gardner to prioritize the needs of patients with lung cancer, asthma, COPD and other lung diseases. ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Circus clings to broken business model

Families who care about animals want no part of circuses that force them to perform. But instead of modernizing by featuring only willing human performers, Jordan World Circus (Herald, June ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Veterans should be aware of proposals

All veterans should be aware that the White House Veterans Administration complaint line is now live. The number is (855) 948-2311. This line is answered by an actual person who ...

DATE: Jun 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

RACs essential so we can work together

Thank you for your editorial “America Last” (Herald, June 3) describing among other things President Trump’s suspension of over 200 Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Councils. ...

DATE: Jun 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Too much missing from the newspaper

What’s going on with the Herald? Using the sports section as an example, not long ago I complained that the Herald quit printing national college scores. Now you don’t even print the sport...

DATE: Jun 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tipton’s votes reveal his ‘constituents’

Remember the financial crisis of 2008? People lost their jobs, their homes, and their savings because of Wall Street greed and big bank excesses. After that meltdown, Congress pa...

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tipton, be more cautious in the future

Rep. Scott Tipton co-sponsored and voted “yea” on H.R. 1430, “The Honest and Open Science Treatment Act,” or so-called Honest Act. It initially appears to be “honest,” requiring the Environm...

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Column on Cuba missed important point

Julian Colby’s column on lifting the Cuban embargo (Herald, June 3) was quite impressive for a seventh-grade student. It was very well written, but ultimately flawed. While I agr...

DATE: Jun 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Time to remove signs near Mesa Verde

I am writing in reference to the long-closed gas station near the Mesa Verde National Park entrance on U.S. Highway 160. A few months ago, an active duty military person wrote a l...

DATE: Jun 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor