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Harvard is choosing the wrong path to wisdom

Over the past year and a half, the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have handled themselves with a fervor and commitment that has, most of the time, in...

DATE: Jun 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Victory over chain saw use is sweet

As a former ranger in the Weminuche Wilderness for San Juan National Forest, I was ecstatic to learn of the agency rescinding the approval to use chain saws in the wilderness area to clear t...

DATE: Jun 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

President clearly committed high crimes

Special Counsel Robert Mueller made a public statement on May 29. In it, he outlined six facts discovered during the investigation into the president. 1) Russia significantly inte...

DATE: Jun 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks for letting us enjoy our valley

Over the past week, I have been watching our firefighters tirelessly fight the fires on Missionary Ridge. The skill, precision, choreography, incredible hard work and dedication n...

DATE: Jun 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bernie, the ’30s called and wants its decade back

WASHINGTON – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, is a man from the 1930s. If you didn’t believe that before, you certainl...

DATE: Jun 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Coloradans can unleash the pols

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

We need to talk

9-R jumped the gun by trying to arm school employees without notice

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Try offending your progressive readers

Being a champion of local news, advocated by the Herald, is a two-way street. What you think we want to hear about is boosterism for progressive causes. And indeed many noisy readers of the ...

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

Fawning all over

Perhaps it is poetic justice that we are becoming like a deer maternity ward

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

We get this trail at no cost to the city!

Our community loves trails in our “front country.” Natural surface trails take advantage of our conveniently close and beautiful open spaces, serve the recreational interests of many residen...

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

Dear voters, your views on foreign policy stink!

Most of human history has been marked by war. Between 1500 and 1945, scarcely a year went by without one great power fighting another. Then, in 1945, that stopped. Battlefield dea...

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks