Editorials
Debtors’ prison
Measure will end Colorado’s practice of jailing those too poor to pay fines
Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Dance, Berman understand renewables
For almost all of this time, coal has provided the cheapest reliable source of power. As we have been reminded by the recent observation of Earth Day, however, operations in…
Letters to the Editor
LPEA is not a business but a cooperative
But he’s wrong; LPEA is a cooperative. As such, its purpose is not to maximize the return to shareholders, which is the purpose of a business, but to maximize the…
Letters to the Editor
Research on climate change readily available
Global temperature data collected for more than 100 years clearly shows average temperatures are increasing. The 1980s had a significant temperature increase over previous decades, and the average temperature of…
Letters to the Editor
We’re concerned citizens for Bill Waters
Among them is the need for clean, renewable and affordable energy. Bill is a hard-working, dedicated businessman who understands how million-dollar businesses operate. He is committed to work for you…
Letters to the Editor
Waters is the right candidate for LPEA
His opponent is a single-issue candidate who doesn’t respect our country’s flag, LPEA or its employees. I encourage everyone to vote for Bill Waters, who supports renewable energy and will…
Letters to the Editor
Late-arriving parking bill is onerous
Whatever the reason, I find it onerous to be required to pay a bill that arrives in my mail box three years late! I took my $36 parking violation bill…
Letters to the Editor
Voice support for residential neighborhoods
The planning department has created four scenarios where vacation rentals would be increased in the old neighborhoods, EN1 and EN2. They took input last month from residents to better advise…
Letters to the Editor
Market dismisses ‘toxic’ lemonade vendor
The reasons for my denial: Lemons are not locally grown, shortage of physical space, duplication of products and my “past performance.” I’d agree the lemons are not harvested locally, but…
Letters to the Editor
Rightful owner failed to do proper research
Had the owner checked the lost and found listings, he or she would have gotten the bike back right away. Had the owner gone to the police at any point…
Editorials
‘High-risk’ wells
Developing effective and reasonable rules has to be based on sound information
Letters to the Editor
NRA is not a well-regulated militia
As a few Herald editorials have pointed out (with solid logic), none of these controls would infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. I’ve come…
Letters to the Editor
Dance, Berman will help choose best CEO
Alison Dance and Jeff Berman are the two 2014 LPEA board candidates best qualified to guide the board in this critical hiring process. While the board of directors guides LPEA…
Editorials
Public lands
are the property of all Americans, not just those nearby who want to use them
Letters to the Editor
Berman, Dance forward-thinking candidates
However, it did not go up in 2014. Why not? Because new LPEA board members get elected every year, and the newer, more progressive voices elected to the board recently…
Letters to the Editor
Dance, Berman envision renewable future
Look for your LPEA ballots and consider a long-term, sustainable energy future for Southwest Colorado and the candidates who also share those beliefs, like Alison Dance and Jeff Berman. Emily…
Letters to the Editor
Berman best qualified to serve LPEA
I have had both the pleasure and honor of working with Berman on a variety of issues, including the development of the bio-fuel plant in Dove Creek. His vision for…
Letters to the Editor
Waters, Wheeling will navigate through LPEA’s issues
These two people are the kind of directors this board must have to take the co-op successfully through the complicated issues we face. Agenda-driven (with tunnel vision), misinformed, unprofessional and…
Letters to the Editor
Dance has vision, common sense
She understands the imperative of reducing our dependence on environmentally damaging fossil fuels and moving to newer, sustainable, renewable energy sources like solar and geothermal – which we have in…
Letters to the Editor
Dump LPEA incumbents this election
As with career politicians, board incumbents become part of the problem when their views become self-serving, or they forget why they were elected. One incumbent, Jeff Berman, has been a…
Letters to the Editor
Re-electing Wheeling a wise decision
It would be a wise decision for the future of our electrical co-op, our community and our environment to re-elect him. Ed Zink Durango
Editorials
Nigeria needs new response
At the same time, it offers an opportunity to unite behind a common effort to rescue the victims – and the United States the chance to show its power can…
Letters to the Editor
Berman is following LPEA voters’ mandate
Marilyn & Rich Nagler Durango and Evergreen