Our country gives us the right to protest, but be sure you understand what and why you are protesting. I was sure that if I walked up and started talking…
Viner said non-payroll income, i.e., the income of retirees, would be taxed 50 percent during the transitional period while a single-payer health system for Colorado is being implemented. As I…
All self-employed or retired people will pay a 10 percent tax (on top of the 4 percent) on gross income before deductions on wage and non-wage income. These people get…
She has the vitality and the skills to work across the aisle when that is needed to get important legislation passed. Her positions on protecting Western Slope water and other…
I wore a red, white and blue fleece jacket, but no political signs or stickers or pins. I picked up trash along the way and as I did so I…
As a rancher, he understands the special needs and concerns of rural Coloradans, our land and specifically our water issues. As a former school board member, he is an avid…
Bill Zimsky (Herald, Oct. 7) presented irrefutable facts and data about the correlation between per-student funding levels and tests scores/graduation rates of our children. The data is plain for all…
But in practice, his gauche, erratic temperament, bull-in-a-china-shop style, checkered business past, tendency to blatantly lie, and his complete lack of class mixed with overt appeals to the worst in…
Unlike Pence or Brown, I served in the military. I took an oath to defend the Constitution. America does not jail political opponents. I don’t remember learning that in Sunday…
She taught both my children and supervised them when they wrote and edited for the Durango High School newspaper, El Diablo. They and many of their peers benefited from McLachlan’s…
The businesses that tend to pay less cannot afford to pay more. If they are forced to pay more, they will reduce hours or go out of business entirely, and…
Most of the women in America will be voting for Hillary Clinton, as this is gender favoritism by women toward a woman attaining the position of president on a first-time…
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…
