Author: The Herald editorial board

Supporters and opponents of Proposition 117, which will require voters to approve any new state enterprise that is expected to be supported by more than $100 million in revenue from fees over five…read full editorial here.

One of the most significant questions on the November ballot is the creation of a paid family and medical leave enterprise within the state’s Department of Labor. Most employers and employees in…read full editorial here.

Two-thirds of a million dollars in in-kind contributions so far, is being used to advocate cutting the state’s individual and corporate tax rates from 4.63% to 4.55%. With the damage done to payers…read full editorial here.  

When people show you who they are, believe them — for this wisdom we have to thank the late poet Maya Angelou, and Oprah Winfrey, who popularized it. It seems useful when we look at the anarchist…read full editorial here.  

There seems to be a growing consensus that the best way to deal with the coronavirus is with authority. Absent a true global authority, which may never be, we still look for this authority to be central in a nation-state, flowing from the one to the many, in a president or a prime minister or…

Colorado advanced well beyond the rest of the nation in 1893, when it amended its constitution to allow women to vote in state elections. The rest of the nation caught up to Colorado 100 years ago …read full editorial here.

Sometimes, a child takes to the water so naturally he never wants to get out. He just swims away. On Aug. 10, 2008, Michael Phelps, 23, stepped up to his block at the pool at the Beijing Olympics…read full editorial here.

Celebrations of Christopher Columbus in the U.S. did not gain much ground until 1892, after Italian immigrants were murdered by a mob in New Orleans made up “mostly of the best element” of New…read full editorial here:

The goal for the Fort Lewis College community is, in late August, to have the campus look and feel normal. Everything that was there in late February before the virus arrived will be present when students return in two months. In the face of slashed state funding, partially offset by a federal CARES boost, the…