Some of these bills would pretty much wipe out Medicaid, on which 20 percent of Coloradans rely. The Congressional Budget Office has calculated that the bills favored by Gardner would…
Before the Affordable Care Act, more than 41 million people were uninsured. While the ACA has some significant flaws that need to be fixed, the number of uninsured people in…
The price increases are not for anybody presently using Durango water; the city has sufficient water rights and infrastructure to ensure residents of water in the driest of times and…
The article highlights a recent vote by our LPEA board member Kohler McInnis at a Tri-State meeting, our wholesale electricity provider. The board instructed CEO Mike Dreyspring to request a…
Bears are thought to have the best sense of smell of any animal; better than dogs and far, far better than people. Bears scavenge and hunt through smell, not sight.…
Never were we more in danger of failing at this than now. Colorado is a paradise. But we are increasingly living in a tinderbox. One in 14 trees is dead…
I was amazed at the numbers given for the costs of such replacement and ask that your reporter go back to the city and request a little clarification. For instance,…
How can anyone treat an animal this way? My hope is that this dog be taken away from this owner and given a proper home with training. If anyone else…
I had high hopes, yet minimal faith, that it would be replaced before America’s 241st birthday this year. Unfortunately, that did not happen until someone called to ask if it…
This example of visionary creativity and practical problem-solving is proof-positive of American know-how and gumption – and will undoubtedly significantly reduce human-ursine conflict. I have employed a modified version of…
This kind of taunt did not cause Korea’s insane leader to back off his nuclear program. Indeed, shortly after Trump’s threat, Korea’s Kim Jung Un threatened to bomb American Guam.…
By the way, does Vladimir Putin have something so bad on Donald Trump that Trump is speculating firing Jeff Sessions (Attorney General), Rod Rosenstein (Deputy AG) and Special Counsel Robert…
While my dog and I were out for a leisurely stroll on the Animas River Trail, a young woman riding a bicycle whizzed by me. I saw that she was…
Our local 5 Rivers chapter of Trout Unlimited has partnered with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service for many years to create a thriving and self-sustaining population…
To use the pinhole camera technique, poke a hole in a piece of stiff paper or cardboard with a pin, and hold it so that the sun shines through the…
du1-i-syn The International Climate Science Coalition is not “non-partisan” as claimed. It is a fossil fuel advocacy group and is heavily associated with climate changer denier organizations. The writer has…
“Honorable Sen. Gardner, What is going on with the GOP? American health care has become nothing but the GOPs anti-Obama political football. When will Jeff Sessions and the GOP get…
The story “LPEA renewable energy goal faces uncertainty,” (Herald, July 24) was intended to keep LPEA members confused about the truth. This story was written at their request. The Herald…
One of the routes goes from the Iron Horse Inn to the Glacier Club and covers 70 miles. According to the ad, the route takes four to six hours and…
La Plata Electric Association was incorporated in 1939 and began distributing electricity as a not-for-profit cooperative in the Bayfield and Ignacio areas before World War II. At the end of…
Cheap shots, sucker punches and backstabbing is the preferred method of a coward, and Trump excels at this. He blames all his presidential problems on Obama, and the buck doesn’t…
Does that not say anything in volumes how educated Americans handle their disputes? If you come out of your mother’s womb in the United States you are American; that’s nothing…
In August, we contact our current “investors.” These are the people who have paid the property taxes for others in years past, for which they have received a 10 percent…
The Herald (July 21) reports that, “If proven, it is at least the fourth home-invasion robbery involving marijuana in the past three years in La Plata County. Three of the…
In public meetings, the city informed us that an initial 55 percent rate hike was justified to fund a new potable water treatment plant. The city now states the rates…
Pat Senecal of Celebrating Healthy Communities Coalition is quoted as saying “Marijuana use in La Plata County teenagers has increased since…legalized in 2014.” She further states that the Healthy Kids…
I was disappointed that no one in any media outlet even mentioned the tragedy, although there were numerous stories of “fake news” regarding denials by President Trump regarding Russian meddling…
LPEA was a small rural electric association operating out of Bayfield at that time J.L. Turnell Durango
Though you did not actually endorse it, it seems irresponsible to print something that folks could take as a recommendation. Even though you are trying to spark creative ideas, you…
The Public Service Company of New Mexico’s proposal to phase out the use of coal-fired electricity is contrary to the current resurgence of coal, thanks largely to federal deregulation. Coal…
