Letters to the Editor

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…

April 6, 2022

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…

April 6, 2022

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…

April 6, 2022

Opinion

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…

April 4, 2022

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…

April 4, 2022

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…

April 3, 2022

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…

April 2, 2022

Opinion

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…

April 1, 2022

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…

April 1, 2022

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.…

April 1, 2022

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…

March 30, 2022

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…

March 30, 2022

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…

March 28, 2022

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…

March 28, 2022

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…

March 27, 2022

Opinion

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…

March 27, 2022

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…

March 26, 2022

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…

March 25, 2022

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…

March 25, 2022

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…

March 23, 2022

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…

March 23, 2022

Opinion

Protect reproductive health care

I worked in reproductive health care as a registered nurse in abortion care for approximately six-plus years. I took care…

March 18, 2022

Opinion

Miller rebuild to displace Shared School

Durango School District 9-R released the plans to rebuild Miller Middle School. The bond language said they were going to…

March 18, 2022

Opinion

Justice Thomas ‘can’t be trusted’

Well, I want to thank all the journalists who brought to light the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.…

March 18, 2022