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Our view: Like peanut butter and chocolate, ‘Lay Down’ just works

How is this for an American story: On the third day of February 1947, auspiciously under the sign of Aquarius, a child, Melanie Anne, was born in Queens, New York, to Freddie Safka, a Ukrain...

DATE: Apr 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Please share to help those who need it

My wife and I got our federal payments today, and I feel a little guilty about it. I’m still working, so we have not been hurt financially by the COVID-19 pandemic, but I know man...

DATE: Apr 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Editorial on Bernie Sanders was unfair

Your editorial about Bernie Sanders was, in my opinion, ill-conceived (“ You state he claims “that the source of all our problems is wealth. And corporations.” What the senator actually did...

DATE: Apr 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: LPEA green team can save our bacon

Thanks to the leadership of directors Rachel Landis and Guinn Unger, our LPEA board is moving toward local generation facilities, to support our workers with jobs and lower rates. ...

DATE: Apr 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

David Brooks: Our age of coddling is over, and good riddance

Over the past decades, a tide of “safetyism” has crept over American society. As Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt put it in their book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” this i...

DATE: Apr 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Rachel Landis is good for us and LPEA

With so many unknowns in our daily lives recently, it is nice to find those small (and large) things that we can predict and feel good about. Voting for Rachel Landis in the next LPEA electi...

DATE: Apr 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: The Herald has always been liberal, biased

David Ohman, a former member of The I had to laugh. Here’s a guy who was part of the problem in making the Herald the left-wing source of media in Durango and he assures us that the proble...

DATE: Apr 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Reopening of golf was well thought out

I, along with others, invite Debbie Smith and her family to visit Hillcrest Golf Course and observe what the “idiots“ are doing, and the extreme measures that they have taken to keep this ac...

DATE: Apr 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tom Stritikus: Fort Lewis can do its part – and it will need help

In January, I told the Colorado Legislature that I feel like I have the best job on the planet. I get to live, I said, in a wonderful community and work alongside outstanding professionals f...

DATE: Apr 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Leaving Tri-State is the smart thing to do

The Delta-Montrose Electric Association paying $62.5 million to leave Tri-State, which is also LPEA’s wholesale provider, is important news for our community, another indicator that LPEA cou...

DATE: Apr 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Keep Rachel Landis on LPEA board

A co-op is designed to be for the people, by the people. The entire reason rural electric co-ops were originally created was to give communities like ours the power to access reliable electr...

DATE: Apr 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: LPEA needs more extremist directors

I have a viable idea to help out all the disappointed Bernie Sanders fans. Why not invite Sanders to pretend to live in La Plata County and run for the LPEA board of directors? ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor