If only we could have known that having a county commissioner advocating for cleaner environment would discourage the bloated, dirty oil and gas companies from interest in our area. We…
At a time when many small newspapers are not surviving at all because of decreasing subscription and advertising revenue, and many larger ones are being swallowed up by syndicates, hedge…
From college up through the NFL it’s a huge business. You can tell just by the advertising volume it generates. It’s fairly cheap; you get it for just the price…
Jeff and Jenny Vierling, owners of Tailwind nutrition, display some of their products.Sam Green/Cortez Journal Kudos to the Wolverines, of course, for their 2A state title, but the less publicized…
I agree completely with columnist Mark Pearson (Herald, Nov. 18)that Sen. Gardner should vote against moving the bill out of committee to the Senate floor. We need the permanent protection…
At first I had a lot of animosity for the way I was treated – I must admit they used way too much force – but in the end, if…
du1-i-syn Let’s hope that Sen. Gardner has the backbone to stand up to the environmental lobby and allow drilling in the 1002 area of the refuge. Let’s get some facts…
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., left, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, criticizes the Republican tax reform plan while Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, center, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,…
I want to share what I have learned from the experience with all present, past and future victims and survivors of sexual harassment so that they will feel better about…
du1-i-syn Senator Murkowski claims that the physical footprint of drilling would be small. Her claims are misleading, as the 2,000 acres needed for development she often references would not be…
Putting new state employees, teachers and other public workers in Colorado into a defined contribution 401(K)-type plan does not address existing liabilities and would actually substantially increase the unfunded liability…
du1-i-syn The current tenor of our politics seems to fan the flames of fear and encourage us to go beyond holding the guilty accountable and to demonize whole groups of…
Have you read about the recent Kansas tax experiment? It failed. The state is hemorrhaging revenue and lawmakers in Kansas are now rolling back the tax law, a law just…
du1-i-syn Assuming you made it through Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday, as Noel Night approaches this Friday, it seems like a good time to review the city’s budget,…
Such EMP-hardening may be the best, safest, and least provocative way to deal with such a danger. In addition, we should write to our friends and relatives, as well as…
du1-i-syn These founding principles are more important than ever. Current administration of government control and influence into our personal lives is at an all-time high. The time to speak our…
Participants march against sexual assault and harassment at the #MeToo March in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)du1-i-syn That’s not because ordinary…
Regional climate models predict higher temperatures and less precipitation, especially in the summer months, when crops are most vulnerable to drought frequency and severity. Relatively small weather anomalies can have…
This is one of the most rigorously executed studies on fluoride and neuro-development ever conducted. Researchers found that prenatal exposure to fluoride permanently compromised children’s cognitive function. Hundreds of scientific…
du1-i-syn Both the Senate and House bills do away with a number of deductions and credits, while almost doubling the standard deduction. The century-old charitable-giving deduction would remain for those…
du1-i-syn While the community sinks deep into its own version of “depression,” struggling to come to terms with the loss of another beautiful person, I sit and wonder what can…
He bragged about his history of assaulting women. I blame his “base” for basically ignoring all the damage he is doing to this country simply because his last name is…
The so-called “cut, cut, cut” tax bill has nothing to do with making America great. It has nothing to do with heading off levels of inequality reaching pre-Depression levels, nothing…
I commend Barkey for his service to our country as a Marine, but his unfounded words do a deep disservice to the hundreds of thousands of PERA members currently policing…
Climate change should not be a political football, it is a nonpartisan issue. Recent discussions about the president’s trip to Asia make it very clear that China is eager and…
du1-i-syn We did a double-take. It was almost the same headline that ran 11 months ago, in January: “Durango Fire seeks impact fee on new development.” The new announcement left…
