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Letter: Wish we’d seen more archived pictures of Snowdown

Davitt M. Armstrong Oracle, Ariz.

Letter: Letters proposing ban on wood burning are comical

State your objections to wood burning, and have your voice heard. Will the authorities put this into action, while allowing…

Letter: Claims of constitutional rights are often wrong

However, “free speech” doesn’t mean one can yell “fire” in a crowded theater; nor does free speech entitle one to…

Letter: Missing Snowdown and looking forward to its return

Like many, I missed our cabin-fever reliever. I truly missed my January family of fellow Snowdown revelers and “Folliespians.” This…

Letter: Proposed lodgers’ tax increase is just fine for this visitor

It will not stop my yearly trek to the “real” mountains. San Diego, too, is a tourist destination, and our…

Letter: City manager should be able to buy a Durango home

I find it hard to believe that he is unable to find a suitable home within city limits that also…

Letter: 30X30 plan protects needed symbiosis in nature

Not everyone realizes we are in a constant state of symbiosis with the world around us. While these relationships are…

Our View: City, county must collaborate on sheltering homeless people

So it is that “Beyond Our Means,” the issue of homelessness and affordable housing, became one of the four FOCUS…

Letter: Republicans aid and abet Trump the criminal

Certainly violations of the emoluments clause, graft, violations of the Hatch Act, inciting insurrection, election interference, soliciting foreign involvement in…

Rep. Barbara McLachlan

The challenges we face are great: the COVID-19 pandemic still rages on, countless small businesses are struggling to keep their…

Letter: Another ‘vote’ for phasing out wood burning

Wood smoke contains toxic chemicals similar to cigarette smoke as well as tiny PM2.5 particles that, when breathed in, can…

Letter: Republican officials must speak truth

Republican elected officials must begin to speak truth to their constituents, rather than take the mercenary and shallow way forward…

Hilary Cooper: Congress must protect Colorado’s outdoors from depredations of oil and gas

du1-i-syn Our government is entrusted with our nation’s public lands, one of the greatest American treasures. These lands must be…

Our View: It’s the right time for the proposed north Main crossing

It’s the right time for the proposed crossing

Letter: Our nation faces a psychological crisis

Therefore, is our scientifically highly advanced country in a crisis when half a million U.S. deaths make up 25% of…

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Letter: Constitution is the law of the land

Are we going to stand up for our freedom? Are we going to stand up for our country and our…

Letter: Ask LPEA to to take the lead on better broadband

Yes, there is decent broadband in a few places, but most of us are stuck with mediocre service at best.…

Letter: SJBPH director is properly protecting the public

Why on earth you would protest the director of San Juan Basin Public Health for doing her job? It is…

Letter: Biden should treat all leaders with respect

According to Amnesty International, 400,000 Iraqi civilians, in the third-largest oil-rich nation, unnecessarily died during the reign of George W.…

Letter: Protesters at health directors’ home should be arrested

While this is not of the scale of the Jan. 6 insurrection invasion of the Capitol, this is not American,…

Letter: Elected officials should do what’s right, not politically advantageous

This reality did not start with Obama or Trump. The extremist behavior across America in 2020 only painfully underscores how…

Letter: SJBPH director should not enforce state COVID-19 mandates

First off, the demonstration was not in “front of” San Juan Basin Public Health’s Executive Director Liane Jollon’s home, not…

Letter: We must rise to the challenges of the decade

We have become self-centered and gave excuses against masks and social distancing instead of considering the health and welfare of…