I am writing to address the alarming lack of transparency regarding the facility at 32 Sheppard Drive. While official records describe it as an administrative hub for six Colorado counties,…
The cost to U.S. Homeland Security for ICE activities in Minneapolis is conservatively estimated to be about $18 million a week; for 10 weeks, it’s $180 million (from: USAspending.gov.agency). Minneapolis…
Rep. Jeff Hurd voted to overturn protections of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota and open them up to potential mining. He has talked about the importance of…
After the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, I felt surely we would not favor building more nuclear reactors, but now I see the nuclear industry touting a fleet of small…
I am watching as New Yorkers are protesting and outraged over a proposed 9.5% property tax increase being pushed by their commie Mayor Mamdani. At the same time here in…
Over the years, the DOJ has expanded to include the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Prisons and Department of National Security as well as the attorneys for…
Stephen Colbert and his right to free speech is in the news again, which is appropriate because the best choice for seeing what is happening in our country and the…
Who better than Donald J. Trump to lead the Christian Revivalist sector of the MAGA movement bent on religionating our government? Who better to infuse our government with a sense…
I am not going to begin this letter by writing all the ways in which I “understand” why things rise in price. But I am going to say that after…
The following political teachings are required to all people who desire to enter into politics. They are not listed in any particular order of priority as all are required for…
This is how freshman Congressman Jeff Hurd’s campaign is trying to explain away his vote to continue Obamacare subsidies for three more years: “This is a chess move … playing…
Lt. Ron Bakken, EMS coordinator for the FLMFPD, was one of the most capable and professional leaders this district has ever seen. Ron single-handedly saved the district from losing its…
Recently, O.D. Perry celebrated his 90th birthday. His family hosted a party. I was unable to attend. Yet, I would like to celebrate O.D. and Betty Perry. Now retired, they…
I care about local government working well, openly, accurately and with collaboration between jurisdictions. As someone who served as a Bayfield town trustee and mayor pro tem for seven years…
When I read Jim Cross’ opinion column, “Durango’s growing disrespect for seniors: From health care to dark chocolate,” (Herald, Jan. 9) I thought of an additional point worth writing about.…
When our president sanctions his ICE agents to murder American citizens in our streets, we know something has gone terribly wrong. We must never surrender to this corrupt administration. We…
Rather than focusing on addressing the affordability issues Americans are facing, the Republican majority in Congress has instead decided to focus on dubious claims about election fraud and voting rights.…
The only thing that will protect us from bad guys with a gun, are good guys with a gun. A common Second Amendment interpretation encouraging more citizens to carry guns…
4,896. That’s four thousand, eight hundred and ninety-six. What’s that number? Well, now that half the Epstein files have been released – only seven weeks after they were ordered to…
City Council has voted 3-2 to eliminate all lot size requirements for ADUs in all three old neighborhoods in Durango. In doing so, they ignored a large segment of the…
I am a retired bilingual play therapist currently volunteering helping families affected by ICE actions. From January through October 2025, 3,800 children under 18 – including 20 infants – were…
The article “We’re keeping people alive: Inside the warming center” (Herald, Jan. 28) focused on the warming center at Sacred Heart Parish Hall. While the focus of the article was…
Human power, rooted in public lands, is a force. People in our region absolutely hold great value in our public lands. Access to healthy public lands is an inherent self-definition…
Publicly traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange and the S&P 600 own and operate for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers in the U.S. The two largest examples are…
They came with boots stomping the ground. They came with guns unholstered. They came with force to dominate. With no intent to bolster. The throngs of marchers were strong and…
I recently read Sen. Michael Bennet’s press release regarding his suggestions for ICE. While I applaud a few of them, the idea of retraining ICE agents is fanciful, to put…
When I was a young boy in school, I believed that when a person swore on a Bible “to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,”…
It has been months since a masked ICE agent was filmed putting a 57-year-old mother, Franci Stagi, in a chokehold and throwing her down a hill. While the community stood…
As a student at DHS, I walked out of school in protest of ICE in our school, community and country on Friday, Jan. 30, for the Nationwide Shutdown to oppose…
For decades, Republican politicians and conservative influencers peddled fear that Democrats were “coming for your guns.” The message was relentless and effective. Many voters believed it, and it shaped elections…
