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Letters: Thanks for seeing Albanians’ generosity
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Thanks for seeing Albanians’ generosity

April 15, 2020

Our daughter joined the Peace Corps in 2007 and spent two years living in a small Albanian mountain community. We took the opportunity to visit her and can attest to…

Letters: Durango should let us into Nighthorse
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Letters: Durango should let us into Nighthorse

April 15, 2020

On the Durangogov.org website, I see residents are encouraged to continue hiking, biking and running but to maintain the legally mandated safe distance. Why aren’t the lakes open for all…

Letters: Trust Unger and science for LPEA board
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Letters: Trust Unger and science for LPEA board

April 15, 2020

Many believe that renewable energy is available only if the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. Wrong, both solar and wind energies can be stored in batteries. We…

Letters: Mike Smedley’s no model citizen himself
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Letters: Mike Smedley’s no model citizen himself

April 14, 2020

New Mexicans support Colorado’s economy by purchasing second homes, supporting ski areas, restaurants, retail businesses, grocery stores and The Durango Herald. Mike could have advised his reader that although yes,…

Letters: Maybe city should make us wear masks
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Letters: Maybe city should make us wear masks

April 14, 2020

Especially in grocery stores, where it seems that most of the employees are not wearing masks and they are the ones who come in constant contact with the public. Some…

Letters: Which idiots opened the golf courses?
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Letters: Which idiots opened the golf courses?

April 14, 2020

Honestly, our family walked the river trail Saturday and a group of older women refused to social distance, walking three abreast. Our family was practically in the trees to give…

Letters: Cleaned bicycle lanes bring me peace
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Letters: Cleaned bicycle lanes bring me peace

April 14, 2020

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

Letters: I want justice for cyclist Ben Sonntag!
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Letters: I want justice for cyclist Ben Sonntag!

April 14, 2020

According to the district attorney, he is waiting for reports from the Colorado State Patrol. Somebody is not doing their job! I encourage each and every one of you to…

Letters: Don’t relax these laws for pandemic
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Letters: Don’t relax these laws for pandemic

April 13, 2020

When the health of everyone is threatened by a pandemic, having clean air, water and public land is essential to our overall health and ability to fight off disease.This policy…

Letters: We are calling the president ‘it’ now
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Letters: We are calling the president ‘it’ now

April 13, 2020

If only our supreme leader was around years ago, “it” would have predicted the recession and saved all of us hard-working Americans so much pain. As to what that evil…

Letters: Re-elect Guinn Unger to the LPEA board
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Letters: Re-elect Guinn Unger to the LPEA board

April 13, 2020

All of us LPEA members have been incredibly lucky to have someone of Guinn’s intelligence and experience on the board these past three years. I have found Guinn to be…

Letters: Fults is a green choice for LPEA board
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Letters: Fults is a green choice for LPEA board

April 13, 2020

In 2017, I ran with Guinn and Rachel for a very different LPEA board. Back then, there was no discussion about investigating alternatives to our electricity. Our Tri-State contract then…

Letters: All grocery workers should be masked
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Letters: All grocery workers should be masked

April 12, 2020

I asked if management knew about it and got dead silence. Just kept looking at me, not moving in any way. It is time for La Plata County, If not…

Letters: Gas price critics are just crybabies
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Letters: Gas price critics are just crybabies

April 12, 2020

Surely there are more important issues. We pay a fraction that European countries pay anyway. Aren’t we under stay-at-home orders? That should save money at the pump. Stop whining! Cary…

Letters: See? Reusable bags spread disease.
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Letters: See? Reusable bags spread disease.

April 12, 2020

The banners of plastic bags across the nation were able to convince the ignorant and misinformed to vote to ban the use of plastic bags for shopping carry-out. Very convenient…

Letters: Blame Trump for late start fighting virus
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Letters: Blame Trump for late start fighting virus

April 11, 2020

Following the Parkland school shooting, President Trump met with surviving students and promised them he would do something to prevent future shootings. However, only a few days later, Trump met…

Letters: Time to kill 32nd Street bridge project
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Letters: Time to kill 32nd Street bridge project

April 11, 2020

There are certainly more important issues to worry about right now. Please move this project to the back burner or even better yet, scuttle it altogether. Use this money instead…

Letters: Pandemic is being used to divide us
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Letters: Pandemic is being used to divide us

April 10, 2020

Not a great place to be. Social distance becomes “who can be trusted,” which becomes how do you know, which rapidly becomes diversity/division. Such division of the populace follows the…

Letters: Herald and liberal media skew virus coverage
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Letters: Herald and liberal media skew virus coverage

April 10, 2020

This false information affects the world’s ability to deal with the virus. At the same time, the liberal U.S. media is deliberately skewing all coronavirus information so that it constantly…

Letters: Republicans don’t care about the public
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Letters: Republicans don’t care about the public

April 10, 2020

With several bankruptcies in the casino biz, of all things! A serial philanderer gravitating to porn stars; known for cheating contractors and investors. A chronic liar! Known for over-promising and…

Letters: Colorado lambs have a place elsewhere
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Letters: Colorado lambs have a place elsewhere

April 10, 2020

The goal of stabilization and increase of small bands of our rare native species of Rocky Mountain Bighorns is ecologically significant. My research proves that the Weminuche bighorn herd is…

Letters: Innuendo in your headline unacceptable
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Letters: Innuendo in your headline unacceptable

April 9, 2020

You slapped it on the article as if anyone – including Dr. Anthony Fauci – could give a date to “have fans in stadiums.” President Trump was rightfully criticized for…

Letters: Mr. President, I’m not bashing, but …
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Letters: Mr. President, I’m not bashing, but …

April 9, 2020

I have seen shady politics over my many years. But for President Trump to withhold medical supplies from Washington and Michigan is ridiculous and dangerous. He is defiant and reckless…

Letters: We’re not taking prevention seriously
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Letters: We’re not taking prevention seriously

April 9, 2020

Chicago has been hit hard and they are converting McCormick Place into a facility for emergency beds for 3,000 people. The only logical place in Durango would be the Rec…

Letters: I believe in Colorado. We’re OK together.
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Letters: I believe in Colorado. We’re OK together.

April 9, 2020

I try to stay positive, yet every morning is filled with uncertainty with the next wave of information about an epidemic that comes crashing down harder and harder with each…

Letters: Please vote for these LPEA board candidates
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Letters: Please vote for these LPEA board candidates

April 8, 2020

The average percentage of coal used by American utilities dropped from about 50% to 27%, beginning around 2007, when natural gas use became widespread. So why did Tri-State’s coal-generated electricity…