If they are “highly sensitive,” do we really want them released to a public that, presumably, would include Donny’s Russian buddies as well as ISIS? Really? Thankfully, doesn’t “deleted” mean…
In this campaign, there is fault on both sides. Clinton seems to get a pass on her part of sexual abuse. Just because she says she is for women –…
Why would a market gardener from Durango buy lettuce from Kansas? Why would I buy my beef from Nebraska when we have some of the healthiest, happiest cows grazing right…
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton is a common-sense politician looking out for rural Colorado. As the end of this administration comes near, America’s farming and ranching families are facing an onslaught…
Most politicians have failed us and put this country in decline. The electorate knows how to solve the problems we face better than our elected leaders. It is time for…
In 2010, he told his supporters, “Can you imagine what Barack Obama would do if we didn’t have guns? No telling what he’d do; this guy’s after power, let me…
Keeping many people happy in a national, million-dollar organization is more difficult than running a small local business with just one or two owners. Lachelt did so successfully. She has…
Decades in leadership roles equip them to govern. Their experience listening and creating bipartisan strategies is what we need if we’re to get anything done. With most of us reluctant…
More than a dozen years ago, I sat in the courtroom listening to lawyers explain in mock-saddened tones why Durango and La Plata County regretfully had to take the Merle…
He says he’s “smart” for never paying taxes, because the tax code says the working class must pay for Trump’s incompetence. Although he avoids taxes on his billions, since the…
Brown is an outspoken denier of global warming and the consequent climate change effects. The unassailable scientific conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change present a dire assessment of…
First of all, while the Herald glossed over Bennet’s “support” for Obamacare, Bennet was more involved than that. Many of the representations about Obamacare by Bennet and the liberal media…
I worked for McKnight for 3½ years, deciding to pursue a new career last December. McKnight and his wife, Tonya, while perhaps not being involved in any of the 37…
Vote for both! Vote for Julie Westendorff and Gwen Lachelt for decades of experience, knowledge and ability to get the job done keeping La Plata County a great place to…
Psychiatrists and psychologists use various methods and criteria when measuring psychopathic behavior. The gold standard test for measuring psychopathy is the Psychopathy Check List, revised in 1980, also known as…
She sees the whole picture of what is important to us, now and in the future. She is running against J. Paul Brown to be our state representative in the…
Amendment 69 would strip military retirees of their earned health care benefits. As a retired Air Force colonel, I’m covered by Medicare and secondarily by Tricare for Life, which serves…
She clearly has a ton of expertise and experience on these topics. What impressed me was her balanced approach to solving problems facing the Western Slope. My limited experience with…
Also, in The Tyranny of the Two–party System, Lisa Jane Disch criticizes two-party systems for failing to provide enough options since only two choices are permitted on the ballot. America’s…
There is ample opportunity to volunteer in our community, but he has not once exercised that option. La Plata County itself, the organization he wants to lead, has 37 citizen…
Instead, we have J. Paul Brown, a man who consistently votes against school funding and against every common sense issue involving women’s rights. He owes his livelihood to grazing on…
I wish more people from La Plata County were present last spring in Farmington when Lachelt professionally and knowledgeably spoke in front of an overflow regional crowd at a hearing…
We, as voters, cannot allow government an all-or-nothing approach on the important issues we face. So, I watched and listened to the candidates, the content of their words and the…
Hence the choice of a republic (“if you can keep it,” reportedly said Ben Franklin) and the leavening of the representative government. A way to undo the republic is the…
If the state or county took over the San Juan National Forest, La Plata County would “own” about 21 percent of the acreage; can we really afford the roads, maintenance,…
“The Department of Defense recognizes the reality of climate change and the significant risk it poses to U.S. interests globally. The National Security Strategy, issued in February 2015, is clear…
How do we vet those streaming over our borders? And how do we guaranty the safety and security for our own people in this reality? Sadly, by the time we…
