Opinion
Conflict with My Flesh
Do I need this fragile shell? My body reigns my knowing, It gives me pain and sometimes fails, With grief and doubt revealing, I gaze in the mirror and see…
Editorials
Opinion
Lodgers tax revenue for child care, housing
Like many people, I was supportive of the increase in our lodgers tax in 2021. And like many, I was dismayed to find that the city planned to spend the…
Opinion
Lost school board meeting too familiar
In 1972, lawyers requested former President Nixon’s tape recordings of his conversations in the White House. This was in relation to the break-in of the Democratic Party’s offices in the…
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Rural Colorado needs more livestock support
Many Coloradans will recall November 2020 when just over half of voters approved the reintroduction of gray wolves west of the Continental Divide. Colorado Democratic state Sen. Kerry Donovan is…
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Vote ‘yes’ on universal preschool
As a longtime early childhood educator in La Plata County, I celebrated when Colorado voters approved universal preschool with passage of Proposition EE in 2020. This valuable education will be…
Opinion
Standard time is best
Our Congress is in the process of deciding whether to end the twice a year time changes of Daylight Saving Time. However, they seem to be leaning toward permanent “daylight…
Opinion
Some foundations have strong networks
History is plagued with conflicts, such as the current situation in the Ukraine initiated by power-hungry, out-of-control despots. I’m hoping that we all do what we can to prevent the…
Opinion
School board ‘has gone rogue’
The Montezuma-Cortez School Board canceled a meeting where it planned to “re-create” a secret meeting they held previously to ask Superintendent Risha VanderWey to resign. No recording of that meeting…
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Privatized REACH could drain Medicare
Traditional Medicare is our nation’s most efficient and popular health care program. A failed effort to privatize it, the Direct Contracting (DC) program, devised by the Center for Medicare Service…
Opinion
Submit your poems to the Herald
Readers, in celebration of National Poetry Month, we are inviting submissions of poetry to our Letters to the Editor section throughout April. Tell us how you feel about things on…
Opinion
‘Long live Action Line’ column
As Action Line No. 2 (and 4), I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to Action Line No. 5, John Peel. John has not only continued the tradition…
Opinion
COVID-19 created multiple tragedies
Mayor Dick Whitedu1-i-syn The COVID-19 pandemic has generated tragedy in at least four ways. The first and most obvious tragedy is the loss of human lives. The confirmed global death…
Opinion
Our View: High Court must uphold Indian Child Welfare Act
Bitter custody battles over Native American children have reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which will examine biology versus the best interests of a child, and culture and attachment. At the…
Opinion
Avoiding World War III not a strategy
It’s puzzling. Why does fear of World War III seem the underlying motive for America’s Ukraine strategy? I mean, look at our government’s efforts to dissuade Vladimir Putin from escalating…
Opinion
Shaw not invested in House District 59
OK class, today’s word is hubris. Hubris, boys and girls, is moving someplace new from an entirely different region and state – Texas. And then, one year later, thinking that…
Opinion
Protect habitat for endangered mouse
An endangered species in our midst. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. Who knew? Biologist Jennifer Zahratka, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife. There’s much news lately about habitat loss as…
Opinion
Avoid ‘rigmarole’ in abortion law
All this rigmarole and needlessly long, intensive, verbiage could be avoided. The law should say what it means. “If you are a female of any age residing in Colorado, and…
Opinion
Remember downtown sans bump-outs
It’s interesting how quickly downtown bump-outs went from a way to support downtown restaurants during COVID-19’s most restrictive time to now being reported as a permanent summertime feature for any…
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Nurse could have offered resources
I was aghast to read the letter on March 18 from the nurse who assisted a woman from Texas in obtaining an abortion. As a medical professional, the nurse had…
Opinion
Knowing Ukrainian refugees makes war much more personal
“We believe that widespread, effective and voluntary use of medically sound and individually acceptable birth control is an essential factor in any humane design to raise world living standards and…
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Our View: Rooting for Westside to purchase property
It’s not often that we see La Plata County staff members and, in particular, a county commissioner become teary during a meeting. A moment passed over county Commissioner Marsha Porter-Norton…
Opinion
Graham, Cruz: Reasons for term limits
Does anyone take Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz seriously? One has to wonder, what motivates them? Are they being coerced into acting like total idiots, or does it just…
Opinion
Our View: A better way to confirm high-court justices?
Jackson’s hearing in Senate has been a circus; we can have a different process
Opinion
Public education still underfunded
State governments that border Colorado to the north and south continually show they value public education by passing legislation as proof – Colorado’s government continually fails to do this. New…
Opinion
Planning to reflect climate realities
Several times a week, I drive by a new car wash under construction and I think, “How was this allowed to happen?” There was a news report recently that our…
Opinion
Our View: RE-1 school board must be transparent
No good reason for discussions, decisions without public notice
Opinion
Voter intimidation editorial lacked facts
Your editorial on March 18 on voter intimidation should have been a news story with more facts, including locations where these acts happened. There’s a certain irony here in as…
Opinion
Westside a ‘remarkable community’
I’ve had the privilege of coming to know many of the children and their families who live at Westside Mobile Home Park over the past few years, and I want…