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Our view: How could we treat Ukraine this way?

Ukraine, in its hour of need, looked to the U.S. – was that really a mistake?

Letters: We soldiered on despite TABOR’s talons

Thank you, Durango, for allowing me to serve on the 9-R school board. It was tremendously rewarding and enriching community service. The board, under Dan Snowberger’s leadership a...

Letters: City Council escapes a tainted past

Don Thomas’ recent letter, “ Council is diligently scrutinizing decisions made in the past as to how our tax money should be spent in the future. Many of the decisions made in th...

Our view: Impeachment proceedings are important history

It’s not a matter of deep state actors so much as deep State character

Our view: Oh deer, you’re not a dog

Up in Franktown, between Colorado Springs and Denver on the western edge of the Plains, a funny-looking deer showed up the other day – a whitetail, apparently, a youngish male with a small r...

Letters: A fully loaded question for our representatives

What kind of country do you want America to be, Sen. Cory Gardner and Rep. Scott Tipton? A: A country in which the president has the right, contrary to the undisputed interests of...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...