Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Sheldon operates with integrity, vision
Matt brings an economics background – his area of study in college. After graduating, his work with young to college-age students, and being an intermediary with parents added to his…
Letters to the Editor
County has no plan to justify tax hike
The commission states that $5 million per year is needed for 10 years to supplement road and bridge maintenance. This suggests that a plan has been developed, with public input,…
Letters to the Editor
Fixing Middle East will take a miracle
The world is naturally on edge over the Sunni vs. Shiite conflict. The two Muslim groups read scriptures from the same book, the Koran, yet have fought each other with…
Letters to the Editor
A plea for reason to gun-rights advocates
The only difference in our country is that we all have the constitutional right to acquire and possess as many weapons as we want. Sadly, this has surpassed the right…
Letters to the Editor
Students in photo get F for manners
It truly is in very bad taste. Jackie Caudill Durango
Editorial Cartoons
After the XC pot fiasco
Letters to the Editor
Vote ‘yes’ on Bayfield Question 2D
On the ballot this election is Town of Bayfield Question 2D, which asks Bayfield voters to approve a 1-cent sales tax for roads and stormwater drainage systems. The town is…
Letters to the Editor
Octane rating is key to gas quality
Octane is an issue that was not mentioned and likely could not be considered a scam, but is very frustrating for individuals driving vehicles with large fuel tanks that call…
Letters to the Editor
Israel has not done much for us as ally
Israel is in support of ISIL with the objective of ousting Syria’s Assad regime, which helps to resource Hezbollah, a Shiite militia that is mainly active in southern Lebanon, resisting…
Letters to the Editor
Defund and charge Planned Parenthood
Their doctors murder and mutilate, yearly, over 500,000 women who are living and growing in the womb. These facilities are not women’s centers, they are death factories whose main purpose…
Letters to the Editor
Vote for Matt Sheldon for 9-R board
Matt has demonstrated his skill in working productively with diverse stakeholders. He knows how to bring people together, solve tough issues and get everyone in a room motivated toward a…
Letters to the Editor
Vote yes on Bayfield’s Question 2D
When my husband and I moved to Mill Street in 1979, our street was a mixture of pavement and gravel and there were no sidewalks on one side of the…
Letters to the Editor
Congress should heed pope on climate
Fourteen of the last 15 years have been the hottest on record and during that time, we’ve experienced more intense droughts, wildfires and extreme weather events. Despite these obvious problems,…
Letters to the Editor
Property values are up, but future murky
The tax base for real estate was affected by moving from the 2012 level of value to the 2014 level of value. County-wide, most classes of property saw increases as…
Letters to the Editor
The DHS dress code objectifies women
The main reasoning behind these restrictions is that if a woman shows too much of her body, she becomes less than a student, or a person, but a distraction. The…
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Maybe we can use the lake by 2018
We’ve known since the legislation was passed in 1968 that there would be a lake, but weren’t able to figure out how to empty the trash cans or police the…
Letters to the Editor
GCC is not ‘mining without a permit’
The list actually goes on, but you get the idea. When La Plata County reversed its position and decided a Special Land Use Permit was required, GCC Energy immediately began…
Letters to the Editor
Why not put the sewer plant by A-LP?
I cannot understand that this option is not on the table or in the realm of consideration, it is close to the present location and yet isolated by natural boundaries.…
Editorials
‘No’ to Question 2B
Rebuilding the existing sewer plant ignores a multigenerational opportunity
Letters to the Editor
Vote yes on county road, bridge levy
The group came from all sections of our county and comprised men and women from several business sectors, nonprofits and agriculture. There were some who have lived here their entire…
Letters to the Editor
Why play the health insurance game?
For 2016, they want me to bet $8,600 that I will get cancer or run over by a bus in the next 12 months. If I blew that kind of…
Editorials
Yes on Bayfield question 2D
Ballot question 2D would raise approximately $295,000 annually for 20 years to be placed in a street fund that would pay for what the town estimates to be a $200,000…
Letters to the Editor
Tipton represents citizens, not polluters
Tipton stated: “Unlike heavy-handed federal Superfund designations, the good Samaritan approach continues to be the most sensible way to solve the problem.” By “heavy-handed” he means the EPA will sue…
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Herald coverage of county entertaining
“How stupid do they think we are?” I was asked by several real citizens of La Plata County at a funeral I attended of a friend. Then a hug and…