A couple of months ago, my health-insurance company sent me a notice to inform me that as of Jan. 1, my premiums would be increasing by around $200 a month,…
One person collapsed and disappeared for two weeks into the hospital, and others were affected to varying degrees. We were lab rats and nothing more. I, luckily, suffered no ill…
After 2013’s session, Colorado lawmakers need to move on and work together
Originally funded through community-based block grants, the Community Action Programs actually cut poverty rates in half during the first 10 years. Locally, Dr. Bud Evans started the regional revolving loan…
Smith has been Durango’s city attorney for 37 years. During his tenure, he has worked with hundreds of people in our city government. He has worked closely with our elected…
Now, when you buy a carton of whipping cream, you must read the label carefully because there are several additives being added to the cream, including skim milk. Well, that’s…
Anyone reading and not thinking might wonder if it were done intentionally to garner support for the Republican Party because the current governor’s name was not included in the voting…
How about a positive solution like a Missouri canal? It would bring water from the Missouri River to the Front Range cities: Cheyenne, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Walsenberg, Raton,…
Bipartisan measures would boost protections for freedom of information
I happen to know Patti to be a woman of utmost integrity (Something the Herald and some of our community officials should learn), who has a natural ability to take…
Extending aid will not solve the larger problem but will help struggling families
State ‘laundering’ money from pot sales another strange aspect of legalization
The story quoted a supporter of the ban as saying that, “Guns on campus create an intimidating climate and puts the safety of students, teachers and staff at risk.” That…
“Global warming” is not in itself a science, true. It is the conclusion reached by meteorologists and contrary to Goodrich’s assertions, 97 percent of all peer-reviewed climate science papers that…
Goodrich wrote that global warming is not a science, and I would agree. It is a hypothesis that our planet is warming and that the root cause is our unmitigated…
I had resigned myself to never seeing it again, which was very sad for me because it contained tiny diamonds from my grandmother’s wedding ring. Several days later, I received…
The Herald also personally demeaned God when stating: “As such, the baker or any business person’s religious beliefs are irrelevant when it comes to serving the public,” and “Phillips’ religious…
Why make people look like dirtbags and irresponsible when there are a lot of people in this town I have found who are addicted to opiates? Report the facts and…
With the remaining shares of Chrysler purchased from the UAW retirement fund by Fiat (they got those shares at no charge from the federal government), Chrysler is now an Italian…
Grass lawns provide an attractive and clean answer, and they slow rain water runoff and prevent erosion. And it can take years, perhaps decades, to restore native vegetation to the…
How many residents are currently without cans? What exactly happens to the single-stream recycled materials once they have been collected? All residences are billed monthly for the service, but not…
So, are Telluride’s officials smarter than ours or do they just work harder? Ours would rather argue about plastic bags and raising taxes to pay for foolish programs instead of…
Yet, it was also a year full of progress in the effort to cut the carbon pollution fueling the problem. Solar, wind and energy efficiency continued to make big gains…
Myth: Al Gore’s claim in the past that by now the Arctic ice cap would be gone. Fact: Last year, Arctic ice grew by 50 percent; in real terms that…
Wishon, quoting a Herald article (Nov. 7), went on: “the lead article reported … that carbon dioxide content in the Earth’s atmosphere was recently measured at its highest level in…
