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Heads must roll for city’s tragic decision
Call the former Council, the city manager and others to task and demand explanations and their resignations. Rick Lane Durango
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Dear Durango, you’re great. Love, Arizona
Our hostess, the ambitious “Mrs. Caroline Romney,” brought Durango’s history to life in the San Juan historical car on the Durango & Silverton railway. The views? Breathtaking! The train is…
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Just who do you think built these roads?
Unless the answer is yes, you depend on roads to receive these goods, which are trucked to Durango. Carol Simmons Durango
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Act now to save our Electoral College
So it applies to the Electoral College. It evens out the representation of everyone. What about the majority? Aren’t they being cheated? They have the most clout. Without the Electoral…
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Opinion is snobby, sloppy, sly and wrong
These 250 words allow us to pick only a few cherries, like the sloppy comparison between a Mark Twain wisecrack and a municipal comprehensive land-use plan. Somehow, comprehensive land-use plans…
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Polis, Dems trying to steal your vote
In other word,s if the popular vote is won by 10 votes, every state in the compact would award 100% of their votes to that party, even if a majority…
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Trash receptacles needed for homeless
Why not place trash receptacles at interval locations to remind people to appropriately dispose of trash? Our modern towns provide waste removal services. As a community, we need to do…
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Trump’s war on Iran will be ugly first
This will not be a just war but a war he will wage to support his murderous friend in Saudi Arabia, and Trump will probably profit from it. If the…
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Climate change is just a buzz word
Climate change would be directly reflected by a rise in global temperature and sea levels, according to Al Gore – has it? Climate change scientists by and large use measurements…
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He has Colorado’s best interests in mind
He voted to cut taxes for 80% of middle class Americans, and sponsored legislation to bring accountability to the VA. He also helped to pass legislation that secured millions of…
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Conservatives right on homeless, but…
These conservatives are correct. Handouts and support programs, particularly at the local level, are a futile use of taxpayer money. These efforts produce warm fuzzies among liberal hippie types, but…
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Front range hail due to climate change?
I t was not fiscally advantageous in the past to move toward renewables, but now it is quite the opposite. The Sierra Club just released a report conducted by the…
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The smoke from the train is authentic
Our little town is one of living history in nature and demeanor. We are not and hopefully never will be an ersatz “historic” Western town. We’re the real deal and…
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This gentleman is my house-less hero
He is a self-identified “veteran who is not homeless, just without a house.” Not only was he able to return most of what had been taken from me by someone…
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County should tax users, not property
I think that instead of always going after property owners, they should tax the people who use the stuff they want to create or improve. Want to expand the airport,…
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This July 4th is the time to go meatless
According to the USDA’s Meat & Poultry Hotline, this year’s top threat is food poisoning by nasty E. coli and Salmonella bugs lurking in hamburgers and hot dogs at backyard…
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Pardoning war criminals is demeaning
Yet this year, our commander in chief is considering granting pardons to convicted war criminals and military personnel who are in the midst of courts martial accused of war crimes.…
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What’s the deal with this judge again?
Tyler Smith pleads guilty for felony evading for his 20 minute chase with police and gets three years in “community corrections” (“Man who led police on 20-minute chase avoids jail…
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Recall socialist governor while we can
Legislation passed to end the Electoral College in Colorado deprives voters of their rights and should be repealed. The new sex education law violates the rights of parent to decide…
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Why do you have this belching train?
With climate change in mind, we chose not to support pollution by purchasing tickets. In addition, the air quality on the south side of Main Avenue had us rethink our…
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Youth sports just as rowdy in Durango
I had the not-so-great pleasure of officiating Adult (pre-school) basketball games in the winter/spring of 2018. Each night was filled with physical and verbal abuse toward officials and breaking up…
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Letter got Mueller statement wrong
In his May 29 statement, Mueller indicated that the investigation did in fact find that Russian intelligence officers had launched an attack on our political system; he did not say…
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It happened with New Mexico TV, too
I grew up in Union County, and the media coverage there always came from Texas and the Amarillo area. While I’m not criticizing Texas news, I would rather have listened…
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Democrats right about Tipton concerns
This seems to me more of an understandable mistake than a misrepresentation and, in fact, there is more to the story. While Tipton was indeed at a public meeting in…
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Medicare for all is the life preserver
The U.S. pays $3.5 trillion per year for health care, well over $10,000 for every American man, woman and child. Most get poor coverage, wait lines, a scanty list of…
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Where’s reporting on immigrant crime?
Of course, articles in the Herald always refer to illegal immigrants as “immigrants” because using a neutral term hides the objective fact that we have a lot of people here…
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Rope up children for parking lot crossing
Parents, beware! Bob Rosenberg Durango
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Trump is lying about Iran to mislead you
America thinks he is a fool. What a mistake! Remember how “grab them by the…” was covered over by a perfectly timed Wikileaks release of the stolen Democratic campaign documents?…
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We are tired of hiding, stand up for us
In June of 1969, a group of patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a popular New York City gay bar, fought back against police who had been staging frequent raids of…
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5G will destroy Earth life as we know it
5G radiation could also cause or aggravate autoimmune diseases, autism, Alzheimer’s disease and ADHD. Fetuses and children, whose brains absorb much more radiation, are the most vulnerable. The effects of…