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Our view: Lessons learned from Jimmy Carter
still have lessons to learn from the presidency of Jimmy Carter
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Letters: Keep climate change denial to yourself
Denial of climate change has been a PR stunt perpetrated by the fossil fuel industry. Fracking may be an efficient way to retrieve oil and natural gas, but that process…
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Letters: How do you define ‘breaking news’?
The entire town of Estes Park was evacuated because the second largest fire in the state had grown by somewhere around 140,000 acres in 24 hours and was threatening the…
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Letters: How could you have been so duped?
You used to be the party of values and principles. Remember? You were hijacked by President Trump, who shared none of your principles and does not care about you. How…
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Letters: Enough bullying – we’re all Americans
You serve in the military if need be. You pay your taxes and you work hard and do it as well as can be done. You get along with your…
Editorials
On this day: A villainous veep is born
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew congratulates NASA personnel after the successful launch of Apollo 17, 1972. (NASA)du1-i-syn The family did well in the 1920s, with Theo acquiring a larger Baltimore…
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Letters: They use the virus to divide and weaken us
Basketball and football are all-American sports, but two-thirds of the players are anti-American meanwhile making their riches. They need to find their own sport and get their pro-criminal racist organization,…
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Letters: The coming mandatory vaccine debate
Much of the public believes vaccines are medicinal and therapeutic. The CDC, however, confirms that “some vaccines contain only a part of the disease germ,” such as the MMR vaccine…
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Letters: Black Lives Matter is good for schools
The Rev. Katie Kandarian-MorrisDurango
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Our view: In national elections, it could always be worse
Getting a President Biden, if we do, will not alter the faces of America
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Our view: What Colorado voters were thinking
Boebert’s win was predictable; voters on taxes should have been
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Letters: Too many loud motorcycles in Durango
Many riders seem to celebrate a freedom to be rude on Main Avenue. Richard MontroseDurango
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Letters: That ol‘ chicken is some pickleball hater
It built a $4.1 million bridge instead. Why didn’t the prairie dog tunnel under the dangerous intersections? Because the chicken built a $4.1 million bridge instead. Why didn’t the Three…
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Letters: Jim, we need to talk about your thistle
Jim states that the thistle deserves recognition as Scotland’s national flower. I consider this of little merit, as I believe the thistle is Scotland’s only flower. He discusses the main…
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Letters: We are the best country in the world
The U.S. COVID-19 mortality rate is lower than most of the major European countries. Japan is doing a great job of controlling the virus, but neither the U.S. nor Europe…
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Letters: What does mayor need to keep us safe?
The quote from Mayor Dean Brookie was even more disturbing: “We’re taking enforcement very seriously, but it all comes down to … money and expenditure of resources.” Is the 60%…