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Letter: No jail time for sex offender is outrageous

No jail time for an offender (Feb. 20, “ In the interest of full disclosure, I will begin by saying that I am a retired sex offender treatment provider and a retired domestic violence treat...

DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Government instills fear to control, manipulate

Local, state and now even the federal government has doubled down on the use of fear to control, manipulate and suppress the American public. The sight of all people wearing mask...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Don’t cut the COVID-19 vaccine line

Please don’t cut the line for the COVID-19 vaccine by lying on your application. Wait for your turn! I want to go back to normal as much as anyone, but I have a job that allows m...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letter: Herald favors ‘East-Coast elite, progressive’ sources

There’s a certain irony in the Herald’s editorial in the weekend edition trying to define why the country is so divided. A Washington Post editorial on the same page has this quo...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Vote for Youssef for a second council term

Four years ago, Melissa Youssef brought to the City Council much needed integrity, honesty and transparency. Prior to her election there was a community perception about the lack...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Sentencing in Pitcher case is neither progressive nor restorative

I am writing in regards to the recent Herald article (Feb. 20, “An agent for change””) highlighting the work of I am a mental health professional and would specifically like to offer feedb...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Wear masks to save lives, get this over with sooner

Those of you that can’t wear face masks in public because you don’t believe in them or that it’s inconvenient or whatever, consider that I was drafted and sent to Vietnam to participate in a...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Who would Boebert shoot in another Capitol riot?

As she’s proud of saying and showing us, our new House of Reps person fancies herself to be a gunslinger. She eats and sleeps toting around a sidearm at all times. Therefore, my ...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Balance judicial leniency with wisdom

La Plata County Judge Anne Woods has recently come under fire for her “progressive” decisions on bail and sentencing involving violent offenders. Along with many readers, we winc...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Writers on the Range: Put unemployed miners, drillers to work in restoration

Farmington, a city of 45,000 in the northwestern corner of New Mexico, has run on a fossil fuel economy for a century. It is one of the only places on the planet where a 26-kiloton nuclear d...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: New judge is failing victims, community

Judge Anne Woods should be ashamed of herself. Preston Pitcher worked as a youth leader at his church for 10 years and was accused of molesting five young adults whom he had m...

DATE: Feb 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor