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Letters: Herald editorials are fluffy and nonsensical

What is going on with the editorials in our local paper these days? Too often, the topics and content are nonsensical and lack any relevance to current issues or events. Furthermo...

DATE: Nov 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Virginia Herrera will be missed at FLC

Jack Llewellyn’s column, “ There was also an obituary for Virginia Herrera published in the Herald on the same day as Jack’s column. Virginia worked for over 20 years as a dedicated employe...

DATE: Nov 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Nicholas Kristof: Let’s make war on loneliness

LONDON – We humans make a lonely crowd, and it’s killing us. Social isolation is more lethal than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, or than obesity, according to research published by ...

DATE: Nov 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Letters: Can we please agree to disagree respectfully?

A recent solicitation letter from Sen. Cory Gardner closed with these words: “Help me fight back against the radical liberal horde that is descending on Colorado ... to defend ... radical li...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: This Trump character just caves to dictators

Living as we do in a sweet rural paradise, 300 miles from Denver and a blessed 2,000 from D.C., one is still keenly aware of how dependent we are on the state and national scenes, for health...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Ross Douthat: Who likes ‘Latinx’?

Everyone remembers the image that demonstrated Donald Trump’s cluelessness about Hispanic voters: the picture, from May 2016, showing him grinning over a tortilla bowl, with the immortal twe...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Our view: Student protesters are like tsars in a bubble

Student journalism got battered last week – but it’s the bullies who worry us

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Writer is flat wrong about Electoral College

A recent letter in the Durango Herald from a Denver resident touted the purported benefit of eliminating the Electoral College for the residents of Colorado (“ Without the benefit of the El...

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Julie Westendorff: It’s budget season – and we’re not strapped!

It is hard to believe that the end of the year is approaching, but the chilly temperatures, snow on the mountains and the fact that we are in budget season for 2020 all prove that it’s true....

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Chair

Letters: This is how we end marijuana prohibition

By ballot initiative known as Amendment 64, Colorado began legal sales of marijuana on Jan. 1, 2014. As a result, the dispensary and its emblematic green cross is now refuge for the sufferin...

DATE: Nov 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor