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Letters: I love beautiful Buckley Park just as it is

For 20 years since, I have held my breath as Buckley Park has mostly withstood efforts to make it into…

Letters: Time for Gardner to support CORE Act

LWCF has been bipartisan since its inception over 50 years ago. For years it was Sen. Michael Bennet and Sen.…

Letters: Your lowly thistle is a Scottish hero!

The thistle is Scotlandâ€™s national flower and for good reason. Invasive? Hardly! Legend has it the thistle aided the Scots…

Letters: Juan de Oñate was just a fortune-seeker

Though Oñate sought to colonize the new territory in a sense, his assigned primary role, “Conquistador,” was to find gold…

Letters: Groups vow to take action on ‘Chief’ sign

Native people, overwhelmingly, like the sign. Some people don’t, but in our experience, they are primarily non-Natives. To us, the…

Letters: Don’t destroy ‘Chief’ sign, celebrate it

To us, the sign represented a friendly place where Indians were welcomed. None of us felt the sign was offensive.…

Letters: ‘Chief’ exemplified racism of his time

His bigger point is also well taken – that if people are concerned about the current condition of Native Americans,…

Letters: What’s next, no Big Boy fat-kid signs?

This is the perfect time for a productive dialogue about racism and the perceived meanings of the “Chief.” Before a…

Editorials

Our view: Court’s adjourned

their enemies shall the Supremesbe known – and that’s not a bad thing

Letters: I was “Chief” at Snowdown, it was dumb

Perhaps, rather than dismantling the sign, a kind of quid pro quo could be established by erecting an additional sign…

Letters: Irresponsible? Then you don’t get rights

Masks are primarily for the protection of people other than yourself. Perhaps ignorance of that fact is an excuse for…

Letters: We have two parties and both are rotten

I am not even sure they can agree the sun comes up in the east. Until the voters wake up…

Letters: Not so fast with that 5G technology

There is already evidence that 2G and 3G cellular networks cause brain and heart tumors. There is no ongoing research…

Editorials

Our view: ‘Wasp Network’ is a mirror for U.S. and Cuba

new movie shows mirror imagesof challenging U.S.-Cuba relationship

Letters: It’s the Trump resistance that’s racist

It accepts the current racist mantra and ignores, completely, blatant racism that occurs in virtually all entities that oppose President…

July 12, 2020

Letters: ‘Chief’ sign is a privately-funded art work

First: Effective change demands honest dialogue. That has not occurred. Of the petitioners who want the “Chief” removed – The…

July 12, 2020

Letters: Let’s compromise on train, protect forest

However, one train remains coal-burning and is endangering our beautiful public forest. We can’t afford to have another fire like…

July 12, 2020

Guest Columns

Trent England: Electoral College protects Coloradoans’ voices

At the Constitutional Convention, during the hot summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, the American Founders argued about how to elect…

July 11, 2020

Letters: ‘Grandfather in’ has been de-racialized

Although this usage of the word did originate during 19th-century efforts to deny Black voting rights, this meaning has long…

July 11, 2020

Letters: Sweet sounds of springs can be saved

We have endured so much loss, as individuals and as a community, so much irrevocable loss! But here is a…

July 11, 2020

Guest Columns

Charles Blow: Yes, even George Washington – especially him

The very idea that one group of people believed that they had the right to own another human being is…

July 10, 2020

Letters: The Herald should apologize for cartoon

That cartoon is disgusting and a slap in the face of every American, whether they be Republican, Democrat or independent,…

July 10, 2020