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Our View: COVID-19: The truth

A few examples: Bill Gates created the virus. The vaccine is a female sterilization shot. It will alter your DNA…

December 29, 2020

Letter: City clarifies tax spending on streets

Transparency is key for local government. However, some clarification is needed. Durango voters in April 2019 approved raising the tax…

December 29, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Taggers should be caught and punished

For instance, their destructive, self-absorbed behavior has resulted in chain-link fencing closing off the Bakers Bridge area where, over many…

December 29, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Lauren Boebert should represent all constitutents

For politicians of both major parties it is time to cut the crap of partisan politics and remember that when…

December 29, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Wait – “Quiet Lake Nighthorse” is what?

Pardon me? Did you say something? Can’t hear over the outboard! Davitt M. ArmstrongOracle, AZ

December 29, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Pandemic-hoaxers have been deceiving themselves on COVID-19

Many of the individuals preaching to us about what measures we should abandon in trying to avoid COVID-19 believe what…

December 29, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: When can a stroke victim get a vaccine?

The woman expressed great frustration, saying only, “I don’t know,” then promptly just hung up on me. I thought to…

December 29, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Legislators must act on climage change now

All this to say the world needs a drastic change to our environmental policies and Colorado should lead the way.…

December 28, 2020

Guest Columns

Timothy Egan: Lewis and Clark’s travails offer guidance

This year, the mouth of the Columbia serves up a metaphor for these awful times. The best metaphor is the…

December 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Enjoy back country safely, avoid avalanche dangers

If you do go to the backcountry instead of a ski area that is patrolled by professionals, check in with…

December 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter:How can we comfort the Four Corners Health Care Center community?

Is there anything our community can do now to ease the suffering, to comfort those in need? I know this…

December 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Area offers plenty of places to target shoot safely

There are plenty of places to shoot in the Four Corners. Cortez and Farmington have superb gun ranges and shooting…

December 27, 2020

Editorials

Our View: Join the Herald in choosing FOCUS 2021 topics

We’re going to identify four or five special topics that we will examine in depth over the course of the…

December 27, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Officials have deceived us on COVID-19

They live for the notoriety and attention they are receiving. They are destroying lives and whole communities for their own…

December 25, 2020

Editorials

Our View: More diversity at MSNBC bodes well for all

Tectonic changes are happening in the television news business, changes that are going to forever alter the scope of the…

December 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Quiet Lake Nighthorse movement is elitist, selfish

The lake is two miles from downtown and is not a natural lake. The lake is large enough for all…

December 25, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Media’s obligation is to present facts, expose lies

For the record, on that last one, I agree. Because … they were doing their jobs. What Sigman fails to…

December 24, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Reopen schools for in-person learning

Sadly, 9-R’s new “return to learn” policy has failed us. Three important things about this plan are that it is…

December 24, 2020

Editorials

Our View: Every day is a good day for gratitude

day is a good day to be thankful

December 24, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: See the real disaster created by COVID-19

Obviously, Wright is not involved with the hospitals. If she were, she would see the real disaster of this pandemic,…

December 23, 2020

Guest Columns

Melissa Youssef and Jim Griffin: 9-R bond election was more significant than you thought

That voters approved a bond raising $90 million to support local public school facility needs is not all that remarkable,…

December 22, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: What it really means to be Republican and American

I am a voter who has, in the past, voted for both Republican and Democratic candidates, but have been completely…

December 22, 2020

Editorials

Our View: Take Mama D’s advice for a feel-good holiday

du1-i-syn “I start about August, and I have a goal,” the 71-year-old Kimmel said. “This year, it was a hundred.”…

December 22, 2020

Guest Columns

Justin McBrayer: Why fact-checking fails to change minds

The standard suggestion is to get people better information. If we can get people to the truth, we can stem…

December 21, 2020