Letters to the Editor

Opinion

My Son

They folded the flag. I remember you falling from your bicycle. You got up. I remember. They folded the flag…

April 9, 2022

Opinion

Protect Chaco, submit comment

In response to the article “Bureau of Land Management extends comment period on Chaco proposal” on April 2, I believe…

April 9, 2022

Opinion

COVID-19 distracted from climate crisis

Dick White presented another insightful article on the tragedies the COVID-19 pandemic has generated. I note that he states “at…

April 8, 2022

Opinion

A Forgotten Cemetery

I visited a forgotten cemetery, high on a dusty hill, The bristly weeds grew rampant, and the air was strangely…

April 8, 2022

Opinion

The Pillowy Clouds

December’s been extra cozy, Feelin’ as merry as can be, Want to thank God above, My heart sank into Love,…

April 6, 2022

Opinion

Conflict with My Flesh

Do I need this fragile shell? My body reigns my knowing, It gives me pain and sometimes fails, With grief…

April 6, 2022

Opinion

Lodgers tax revenue for child care, housing

Like many people, I was supportive of the increase in our lodgers tax in 2021. And like many, I was…

April 6, 2022

Opinion

Lost school board meeting too familiar

In 1972, lawyers requested former President Nixon’s tape recordings of his conversations in the White House. This was in relation…

April 6, 2022

Opinion

Vote ‘yes’ on universal preschool

As a longtime early childhood educator in La Plata County, I celebrated when Colorado voters approved universal preschool with passage…

April 4, 2022

Opinion

Standard time is best

Our Congress is in the process of deciding whether to end the twice a year time changes of Daylight Saving…

April 4, 2022

Opinion

Some foundations have strong networks

History is plagued with conflicts, such as the current situation in the Ukraine initiated by power-hungry, out-of-control despots. I’m hoping…

April 3, 2022

Opinion

School board ‘has gone rogue’

The Montezuma-Cortez School Board canceled a meeting where it planned to “re-create” a secret meeting they held previously to ask…

April 2, 2022

Opinion

Privatized REACH could drain Medicare

Traditional Medicare is our nation’s most efficient and popular health care program. A failed effort to privatize it, the Direct…

April 1, 2022

Opinion

Submit your poems to the Herald

Readers, in celebration of National Poetry Month, we are inviting submissions of poetry to our Letters to the Editor section…

April 1, 2022

Opinion

‘Long live Action Line’ column

As Action Line No. 2 (and 4), I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to Action Line No.…

April 1, 2022

Opinion

Avoiding World War III not a strategy

It’s puzzling. Why does fear of World War III seem the underlying motive for America’s Ukraine strategy? I mean, look…

March 30, 2022

Opinion

Shaw not invested in House District 59

OK class, today’s word is hubris. Hubris, boys and girls, is moving someplace new from an entirely different region and…

March 30, 2022

Opinion

Protect habitat for endangered mouse

An endangered species in our midst. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. Who knew? Biologist Jennifer Zahratka, and Colorado Parks…

March 28, 2022

Opinion

Avoid ‘rigmarole’ in abortion law

All this rigmarole and needlessly long, intensive, verbiage could be avoided. The law should say what it means. “If you…

March 28, 2022

Opinion

Remember downtown sans bump-outs

It’s interesting how quickly downtown bump-outs went from a way to support downtown restaurants during COVID-19’s most restrictive time to…

March 27, 2022

Opinion

Nurse could have offered resources

I was aghast to read the letter on March 18 from the nurse who assisted a woman from Texas in…

March 27, 2022

Opinion

Graham, Cruz: Reasons for term limits

Does anyone take Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz seriously? One has to wonder, what motivates them? Are they being…

March 26, 2022

Opinion

Public education still underfunded

State governments that border Colorado to the north and south continually show they value public education by passing legislation as…

March 25, 2022

Opinion

Planning to reflect climate realities

Several times a week, I drive by a new car wash under construction and I think, “How was this allowed…

March 25, 2022