Letters to the Editor

Letters: Climate crisis is real, just ask Australia
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Climate crisis is real, just ask Australia

March 9, 2020

Richard Riethmiller spouted disinformation on this crisis in his letter to the editor (“Climate nonsense dreamed up by profs,” Feb. 21) Ask Australians after their unprecedented wildfires if climate crisis…

Letters: Tri-State delivers a clean, green future
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Letters: Tri-State delivers a clean, green future

March 9, 2020

With closures of coal fired power plants plus huge new wind and solar generation projects they’re on track to be 100% renewable by 2040. And the news just keeps getting…

Letters: Is this clear enough for you on climate?
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Letters: Is this clear enough for you on climate?

March 8, 2020

The Sun’s radiation warms the Earth. The Earth radiates away heat in the infrared. Equilibrium temperature is reached where incoming solar radiation, minus one third scattered back into space, balances…

Letters: Are you really Trump’s kind of people?
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Letters: Are you really Trump’s kind of people?

March 7, 2020

Senator Susan Collins was sure there would be lessons learned by the president from his impeachment. Well he sure did. He immediately began ridding himself of all of these treasonous…

Letters: Get these Durango butts out
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Letters: Get these Durango butts out

March 7, 2020

I’m asking these and all the other local businesses who share this smoking clientele to please take better care, and to help their tobacco-addicted customers dispose of their cigarette butts…

Letters: Cory Gardner must be voted out of office
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Letters: Cory Gardner must be voted out of office

March 6, 2020

He,along with nearly every member of the Republican Senate, followed like lemmings to support the impeachment trial of President Trump, the most corrupt, president in American history. However, the House…

Letters: Skeptics are politicizing climate change
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Letters: Skeptics are politicizing climate change

March 6, 2020

There are mistakes in his use of incomplete facts and knowledge. Acid Rain is and was real. Sulfur dioxide and Nitrous oxides are major by-products produced by mining and refining…

Letters: Centura and Mercy should reconsider
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Letters: Centura and Mercy should reconsider

March 6, 2020

The recent decision by Centura Health not to negotiate with the local community group, Southwest Health Alliance, was an enormous disappointment. It destroys the unique opportunity for small businesses and…

Letter: Every primary vote should be counted
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Letter: Every primary vote should be counted

March 6, 2020

Regardless of whether the candidates are in or out of the race, people took the trouble to vote for them and in many cases shelled out the cost of a…

Letters: City: Buy the house and tunnel under
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Letters: City: Buy the house and tunnel under

March 5, 2020

Durango, we have a multi-million dollar word, “seamless.” This is the word that is applied to the Animas River Trail and is the sole reason Parks and Rec is trying…

Letters: Time to penalize driving with a phone
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Letters: Time to penalize driving with a phone

March 5, 2020

We have all had to take defensive action against these drivers, often on a daily basis. CDOT has reported that 43 crashes a day in Colorado are caused by distracted…

Letters: They disliked Golden Gate at first, too
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Letters: They disliked Golden Gate at first, too

March 5, 2020

It is difficult to overstate the vehemence with which opponents tried to keep it from being built. Critics depicted the bridge as financially unsound and an aesthetic blight. Things were…

Letters: Low teacher pay is a Colorado crisis
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Letters: Low teacher pay is a Colorado crisis

March 4, 2020

We expect them to donate hundreds of unpaid hours, while purchasing classroom supplies and working under stressful and emotionally challenging conditions. It’s shameful. Colorado Senate Bill 89 seeks to rectify…

Letters: Cory Gardner is green and bipartisan
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Letters: Cory Gardner is green and bipartisan

March 4, 2020

He was ranked No. 2 when compared with all members of the Senate. According to GovTrack, 50 of Gardner’s 62 bills and resolutions had a co-sponsor from a different political…

Letters: Memo to Durango: Act now, don’t delay!
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Letters: Memo to Durango: Act now, don’t delay!

March 3, 2020

Do not micturate it away by dithering endlessly as you did the first time the owners offered to sell their property. Instead, be decisive and buy the property now without…

Letters: Medicare for All eliminates racial bias
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Letters: Medicare for All eliminates racial bias

March 3, 2020

The data is overwhelming: Compared to white Americans, black Americans are much more likely to be uninsured or under-insured; have significantly lower life expectancies; and are more likely to die…

Letters: Mitsch Bush will represent rural America
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Letters: Mitsch Bush will represent rural America

March 3, 2020

I am an eighth-generation Coloradan from the oldest town in Colorado. The values instilled in me, passed down by my forefathers, are the pillars of Colorado; they are that of…

Letters: Only the GOP can save you from coronavirus
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Letters: Only the GOP can save you from coronavirus

March 2, 2020

I have been working closely with Sen. Tom Cotton, perhaps the best Republican scientific brain in that august and revered side of the Senate. We have now uncovered the undeniable…

Letters: Centura exec’s explanations patronizing
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Letters: Centura exec’s explanations patronizing

March 2, 2020

Banko said he called Tuesday’s “town hall” with Mercy staff to explain why the company had chosen to “poke the bear” and abandon local efforts to provide a cheaper health…

Letters: Virus shows need for universal care
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Letters: Virus shows need for universal care

March 2, 2020

This is a heart-breaking statistic for the wealthiest country in the world, but becomes even more poignant with the current spread of the coronavirus or COVID-19. Countries across Asia and…

Letters: Elizabeth Warren’s story is authentic
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Letters: Elizabeth Warren’s story is authentic

March 1, 2020

But Warren’s life story is a huge strength. She and her family lived economic hardship in the Heartland. Warren drew on support systems of family and government to achieve economic…

Letters: Nobody ever got great with communism
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Letters: Nobody ever got great with communism

March 1, 2020

Anti-Trumpers cannot back up their claims with facts and truth. They believe and repeat liberal hype that is misleading Name-calling and unfounded hate messages are all they have to offer.…

Letters: Just say no way to Michael Bloomberg
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Letters: Just say no way to Michael Bloomberg

February 28, 2020

His tsunami of media ads (costing $350 million – easily the largest ad expenditure in history) shows his conception of (and preference for) voters as passive receptacles for a Bloomberg…

Letters: That bridge will ruin the neighborhood
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Letters: That bridge will ruin the neighborhood

February 27, 2020

The 32nd Street bridge may be good for the Animus River Trail, but it’s bad for Durango. It will not only ruin the beautiful view of our mountains, it will…