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Letters: Apply appropriate measures, but reopen!

If you include the surrounding counties, including Farmington’s San Juan County, there were 172 cases in seven counties with four…

April 28, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Why cling to the crazy crossing project?

If the council wants to spend $175,000 on such waste, then special order $175,000 worth of toilet paper for the…

April 28, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Mike Smedley’s apology was enough

I live in New Mexico, near the state line, and I enjoy the symbiotic relationship between northern New Mexico and…

April 28, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Not the year for state lawmakers and initiatives

won’t miss a full legislative session – and all those crazy ballot questions

April 28, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trumpâ€™s pandemic behavior is despicable

Possibly because my daughter is involved in health care and encounters a risk to her health each day she goes…

April 28, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Where is Mercy hospital’s transparency?

Why has it chosen to not comment on nor share statistics? We don’t know how many patients it has tested,…

April 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Come back, Smedley, we need you now

Yes, your second-to-last column went off the rails. That was one out of how many? Nobody bats 1,000. I believe…

April 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: This Trump character wants to rule us all

Well, guess what? We have our very own version of that in Washington, D.C. His name is Donald Trump. Don’t…

April 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Re-elect Unger and Landis to LPEA board

Unlike the county commissioner race, where you can vote for two (Marsha Porter-Norton and Matt Salka are my picks), you…

April 27, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Like peanut butter and chocolate, ‘Lay Down’ just works

du1-i-syn Gimme a little kiss, will ya huh? What are you gonna miss, will ya huh? It went well enough…

April 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Please share to help those who need it

I’m still working, so we have not been hurt financially by the COVID-19 pandemic, but I know many of our…

April 26, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Editorial on Bernie Sanders was unfair

You state he claims “that the source of all our problems is wealth. And corporations.” What the senator actually did…

April 26, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: LPEA green team can save our bacon

Clean energy is now the cheapest, and employs more workers. What’s the best path forward? Tri-State building local solar will…

April 26, 2020

Guest Columns

David Brooks: Our age of coddling is over, and good riddance

As Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt put it in their book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” this is the…

April 26, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Rachel Landis is good for us and LPEA

Right now and looking to the future, we should all be asking what the earth is saying to us. What…

April 26, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: The Herald has always been liberal, biased

I had to laugh. Here’s a guy who was part of the problem in making the Herald the left-wing source…

April 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Reopening of golf was well thought out

By her comments, I am guessing she has no clue as to how many hours, days and weeks it took…

April 25, 2020

Guest Columns

Tom Stritikus: Fort Lewis can do its part – and it will need help

In our COVID-19 world, January seems a lifetime away. Today, being the president of Fort Lewis College is a bit…

April 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Leaving Tri-State is the smart thing to do

Every cent per kilowatt hour we can save with a new contract adds up to about $10 million per year…

April 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Keep Rachel Landis on LPEA board

So what kind of person do you want in charge of a co-op? Someone who cares deeply about the community…

April 25, 2020

Guest Columns

Scott Tipton: Democrats held up pandemic relief

In Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, like in most places, small businesses are closed, families are home, students are learning remotely…

April 24, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: LPEA needs more extremist directors

Why not invite Sanders to pretend to live in La Plata County and run for the LPEA board of directors?…

April 24, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Democrats, socialists, are power-drunk

Democrats such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her gang of thugs are determined to destroy and undermine this nation’s…

April 24, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Hillcrest golf safer than other places

By far the safest place to be was on the golf course. Hillcrest, in consultation with San Juan Basin Public…

April 24, 2020