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Elizabeth Warren

First out of the gate in the Dems’ 2020 race, she brings real policy for debate

Useless knowledge can beget brand new horizons

In October 1939, as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were plunging the world into war, an American educational reformer named Abraham Flexner published an essay in Harper’s Magazine under the ma...

Plow drivers: What about our property?

Thank goodness Durango finally has snow. My question is, why are the county road plow drivers so disrespectful of our property? Today about noon (Jan. 2) a county plow came throug...

Keep pushing back on city spending

With all the pressures of the citizens for careful spending of taxpayers’ money, why will the city be spending $2.16 million on Chapman Hill ski area this coming year? It does not...

Some justice

Federal criminal reform is a great first step. Many more steps are needed.

These parks projects are boondoggles

Barb Bell’s recent op-ed in the Herald (“ Barb mentions multimillion dollar projects being proposed that are indeed questionable. She also mentions the millions of dollars that the Parks an...

Here’s how a Green New Deal could be practical

Let’s be honest with ourselves: The new Democratic majority in the House won’t be able to enact new legislation. I’ll be astonished if there are bipartisan deals on anything impor...

What will our grandchildren ask us?

Recently, while on our joyous Polar Express, our chef asked each of us what we wanted Santa to bring for Christmas. A young lady seated behind me had an emphatic reply – “for clim...

Fire, drought and flood defined 2018 for county

Happy New Year to each of you! I hope your holiday season was restful, festive and joyous and that 2019 is off to a great start already. At La Plata County, the year ahead offers ...

Trump 2019

In this dark time of the year, usually a pretty slow period for politics, I like to write a column cataloging my errors of analysis and prognostication from the previous 365 days (or sometim...

Tri-State has dirty coal and no Plan B

La Plate Electric Association’s electricity provider, Tri-State Generation & Transmission, Coal is the most damaging fuel to our environment, climate and health. It’s also too expensive to...

Staggering, stupid

Two Florida men plead guilty to trophy poaching of mule deer and antelope