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Letters: More could be done to combat blight

Our once beautiful historic East Third Avenue and surrounding neighborhoods are deteriorating. While there are some lovely, stately properties, there…

February 12, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Before bridge, fix dangerous 32nd Street

Fix 32nd Street – it needs to be upgraded to get a new street and a sidewalk. It is one…

February 12, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Mercy stays at the top of quality ratings

In Medicare’s most recent data release, in January, 2020, Mercy received a five-star rating, the only hospital in the Four…

February 12, 2020

David Brooks

David Brooks: How Donald Trump will win again in November

First, President Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are rising. When the impeachment inquiry got rolling in October his Gallup approval…

February 12, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Murdering the guardians

Someone is killing the best friends our Monarchs ever had, but why?

February 11, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trump is a wise and awesome president

And he’s right, yet another example of his awesome wisdom. Well, here’s an idea President Awesome Wisdom might have missed:…

February 11, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Our American democracy has expired

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.” American democracy, RIP. Paula…

February 11, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trump has my vote

No other president has done so much on his list of what he said was going to do. Sure, he…

February 11, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Cancel the bridge and buy Buckley Park

But we don’t have to. Why not take the $4 million being planned for unpopular bridges and use it to…

February 11, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: City must kill East Second Avenue building

First, it is going to change the street parking conditions of the neighborhood, causing problems for residents and their guests.…

February 10, 2020

Editorials

Our view: 9-R board says it will finally address lunch-shaming Tuesday

Concerned citizens press 9-R school board to address lunch-shaming

February 10, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Dem primaries starting to look like Bataan Death March

The Death March was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of about 70,000 American and Filipino POWs on…

February 10, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Population column should run monthly

The incredible shrinking Herald does itself and its readers no favors by cutting down on publication of insightful, locally penned…

February 10, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Spend bridge money to buy Buckley Park

Buckley Park. If one looks only at the issue of how to benefit the most people with public money, Buckley…

February 10, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Boondoggle bridge needs a good rethink

Surely, there must be a more reasonable solution. What would be the problem with a trail underpass such as at…

February 9, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Who’s really behind Tipton?

For example, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Rep. Scott Tipton received nearly a third of his last…

February 9, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Socialists will shape nation with force

A hallmark of socialist leaders is they proclaim they will Make America Great. According to our Founders, our president must…

February 9, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Where the bridge money should be spent

I have lived in the vicinity of the 32nd Street corridor for over 15 years. I have traveled the corridor…

February 9, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Congress should be voting anonymously

If impeachment verdicts were submitted by simply marking a Yes or No, without identifying your name or party affiliation, the…

February 8, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: A chance to shape wildlife management

Any of those false claims made in an effort to demonize wolves can be refuted, but I’ll pick just one:…

February 8, 2020

Guest Columns

Kara Chadwick: Land exchange would acquire critical elk and deer habitat

Land exchanges are a way to acquire land on behalf of the public that has important natural and recreational resources.…

February 8, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Durango’s filled with socialists and losers

Except the prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, called him out on that, saying Denmark does not have a socialist…

February 7, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Council should lead by banning plastic

Plastics emit dangerous toxins, including phthalates and bisphenols, which are endocrine disruptors. This means that they interfere with normal hormone…

February 7, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Please move forward with this bridge!

The proposed new pedestrian bridge at 32nd Street is likely to result in that normal response. The new structure will…

February 7, 2020