The Colorado Enabling Act, in Section 4, (please Google) clearly states that as a condition of statehood, “the people inhabiting said territory do agree and declare that they forever disclaim…
Step one, carbon pollution. As the extreme onslaught continues, flooding in the Midwest and the intense chills in New York, it is finally time to acknowledge the severe changes, and…
It is important that we create fair congressional districts, not ones drawn by partisan politics. However, I have deep concerns that the current redistricting proposal has been conducted by power…
Call me silly , but the Durango Herald has been a primary source of news for me for those 30-plus years, not just local, but state, national and even international…
Executive action is minimal step toward tempering violence in the United States
Corporations, Republicans and forced birthers are deadbeat parents that undernourish 22 percent to 36 percent of America’s born children and create barriers to education. This is a plan for programmed…
Official restraint is admirable, but risks encouraging the craziness of extremists
Although I do not believe in organized religion because of the centuries of wars it produced – still produces – I pray under God and other loving forces to create…
For years, Stapleton has obscured the truth about Colorado’s best investment, PERA. PERA provides state troopers, snowplow drivers, teachers and other public workers a secure retirement through a defined benefit…
Disbanding advisory board would have chilling effect on citizen participation
Then there is, “If you’re not a Democrat when you’re young you have no heart, and if you’re not a Republican when you’re old you have no brain.” Today, it…
I’m registered affiliated only so I can vote in primaries. In general elections, I’m independent. If I support women’s right to choose, free birth control for the poor, death with…
It turns out the Republican debates and candidate antics are far funnier than he ever was! Tea partiers have finally found their man in their endless search for “the biggest…
1) Gun ownership is a right, driving is a privilege: Conflating the two makes an interesting argument, however, if you needed a learner’s permit to own a gun, which is…
Denis Castro’s letter (Herald, Dec. 29) employed this intellectually dishonest tactic attempting to blur the message of an op-ed piece about the epidemic levels of U.S. gun violence. In his…
He spouts off as if to be taken seriously, but what he says lacks any semblance of substance, fact or truth. In fact, the global warming denialism he perpetrates is…
Ironically, this letter was placed directly above and adjacent to a column by Robert Samuelson discussing the recent international conference in Paris on global warming. He wrote, “Nearly 200 countries…
On Dec. 21, Aztec approved a new electrical contract during a little known special session. The real winners of this new contract are Guzman Energy and the power elite at…
Allowing legal marijuana sellers to use banks should be a priority for Congress
To offset these slightly higher energy costs, half the proceeds could be refunded to low- and middle-income households. A border adjustment for imports and exports would protect domestic manufacturers. This…
In the past five years, I’ve been embarrassed to call that airport home, and you should be too! The person that is hired to run it and the people that…
These days, from our president and from Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, we hear that our effort to defeat ISIL is “right where it should be.” From both Obama and…
