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Our View: Congress should pass Colorado conservation bills

Wilderness, CORE acts will preserve Colorado for future generations

DATE: Feb 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letter: Letting transgender women play women’s sports is a good thing

This is my perspective as a young female athlete who plays a multitude of sports including rugby, hockey, soccer, and martial arts, against both men and women: The argument that banning tran...

DATE: Feb 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Let’s abandon our silos for connection

It was too much to expect David Brooks to hand us a solution to the terrible polarization in our community and country. But the New York Times columnist – a longtime regular visitor to Color...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Duane “Chili” Yazzie: Energy corporations need to meet ‘Indigenous mind’

The energy development interest is mired in a mindset that says there is nothing wrong with how they do business. The first impulse is to oppose any suggestions that energy development could...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Allowing uphill skiing could stem avalanche deaths

In the past two years, avalanches claimed the following lives: Peter (dear friend), Bert (my fitness student), Jeff and Olivia (locals). Add 28 others over the past three years in Colorado a...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Paul Krugman: A Plot to Help America’s Children

Democrats seem ready to enact major economic relief legislation. The package will be big, with a price tag probably close to the Biden administration’s proposed $1.9 trillion. But the bulk o...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Don Coram: Could Gov. Polis be wearing one blue, one red shoe?

The second round of the 73rd General Assembly is underway. We met for three days starting on Jan. 13, then recessed until Feb. 16. It is great to get back to something that slightly resemble...

DATE: Feb 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Ask LPEA to provide fiber broadband access

Fiber to the premises is the best way to receive quality internet, unlike wireless services. It’s faster (1 Gbps), safe (wireless radiation is making one-third of the population sick and dis...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Don’t lump Cortez Patriots in with Capitol rioters

Amanda McNeil was granted a large section of the Jan. 13 Journal to spew liberal left venom in an attempt to silence and restrict the Patriots’ “freedom of speech and assembly” granted to al...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Article on Independents misses the point

The Herald’s article, Actions by the offices of the attorney general, secretary of state and the local Democratic Party to weaponize politics to financially and politically ruin Independen...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Assembly should pass diaper relief bill

We must admit that at first glance a bill in the Colorado Assembly to provide funding for diapers due to COVID-19 impacts sounded, well, a little odd. The bill would provide $4 m...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Support Neguse’s National Biodiversity Strategy bill

Watching this latest life-giving snowstorm falling outside my window, I’m reminded how tied we are to such gifts of nature. Yes, I’ll gladly shovel the snow. Far better than chok...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor