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Letters: Trust Unger and science for LPEA board

Many believe that renewable energy is available only if the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. Wrong, both…

April 15, 2020

Letters: Mike Smedley’s no model citizen himself

New Mexicans support Colorado’s economy by purchasing second homes, supporting ski areas, restaurants, retail businesses, grocery stores and The Durango…

April 14, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Maybe city should make us wear masks

Especially in grocery stores, where it seems that most of the employees are not wearing masks and they are the…

April 14, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Which idiots opened the golf courses?

Honestly, our family walked the river trail Saturday and a group of older women refused to social distance, walking three…

April 14, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Cleaned bicycle lanes bring me peace

Most of the dangerous street debris ends up in the bicycle lanes, which forces me to cycle very close to…

April 14, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: I want justice for cyclist Ben Sonntag!

According to the district attorney, he is waiting for reports from the Colorado State Patrol. Somebody is not doing their…

April 14, 2020

Editorials

Our view: School’s out … forever?

some places, it may not come back in as classrooms are reborn with distance

April 14, 2020

Editorials

Our view: The master retires for good

magazine artist Mort Drucker loved what he skewered

April 13, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Donâ€™t relax these laws for pandemic

When the health of everyone is threatened by a pandemic, having clean air, water and public land is essential to…

April 13, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: We are calling the president ‘it’ now

If only our supreme leader was around years ago, “it” would have predicted the recession and saved all of us…

April 13, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Re-elect Guinn Unger to the LPEA board

All of us LPEA members have been incredibly lucky to have someone of Guinn’s intelligence and experience on the board…

April 13, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Fults is a green choice for LPEA board

In 2017, I ran with Guinn and Rachel for a very different LPEA board. Back then, there was no discussion…

April 13, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: All grocery workers should be masked

I asked if management knew about it and got dead silence. Just kept looking at me, not moving in any…

April 12, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Gas price critics are just crybabies

Surely there are more important issues. We pay a fraction that European countries pay anyway. Arenâ€™t we under stay-at-home orders?…

April 12, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: See? Reusable bags spread disease.

The banners of plastic bags across the nation were able to convince the ignorant and misinformed to vote to ban…

April 12, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Forest Service dubious on Valle Seco land exchange

Not one mention of anything negative, like losing the entire length of Forest Service Road 660A to private ownership, which…

April 12, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Blame Trump for late start fighting virus

Following the Parkland school shooting, President Trump met with surviving students and promised them he would do something to prevent…

April 11, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Time to kill 32nd Street bridge project

There are certainly more important issues to worry about right now. Please move this project to the back burner or…

April 11, 2020

Guest Columns

Dick White: Pandemic also shows threat from climate change

Few alive remember the sacrifices of World War II. No conflict or threat since that time called for such universal…

April 11, 2020

Editorials

Or view: Well goodbye, Bernie

ideologue goes down on aisle three

April 10, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Medicare for All needed more than ever

I have worked as a family doctor for 30 years, 16 of them in Durango. This experience has led me…

April 10, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Pandemic is being used to divide us

Not a great place to be. Social distance becomes “who can be trusted,” which becomes how do you know, which…

April 10, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Herald and liberal media skew virus coverage

This false information affects the world’s ability to deal with the virus. At the same time, the liberal U.S. media…

April 10, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Republicans don’t care about the public

With several bankruptcies in the casino biz, of all things! A serial philanderer gravitating to porn stars; known for cheating…

April 10, 2020