Opinion & Letters to the Editor

Letters: Quit wasting money on homeless camps
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Quit wasting money on homeless camps

September 23, 2020

I have at least five kids working for me as well as holding a second job and they are 16 to 19 years old, breaking their backs to help their…

Letters: Charly Minkler is someone you want
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Letters: Charly Minkler is someone you want

September 23, 2020

For fun, he and wife Katie entertain in their outdoor kitchen or head out on horseback to a great fishing spot. Everything Charly does, he does with integrity, so if…

Letters: Give teachers money from bridge project
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Give teachers money from bridge project

September 23, 2020

I have witnessed civic projects that were nothing more than legacy projects, proposed or completed, for politicians to leave behind as bragging rights. Too many of those projects were unnecessary.…

Letters: RBG’s death is a good time to reflect
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Letters: RBG’s death is a good time to reflect

September 22, 2020

Her friendship with Antonin Scalia was inspiring. They couldn’t have been more apart ideologically, yet they were able to talk about facts and respect that the perspectives of each made…

Letters: I like Marsha for county commission
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Letters: I like Marsha for county commission

September 21, 2020

I met Marsha during the time in the early 2000s that basic health care for seniors, families and kids was sorely lacking in our county. The provider out of Alamosa,…

Letters: Why not teach classes on cellphones?
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Letters: Why not teach classes on cellphones?

September 21, 2020

If we can send off rovers to film Mars, then why not keep the children in our world educated with their cellphones, at home, until this pandemic is gone? All…

Our view: It’s magic!
Editorials

Our view: It’s magic!

September 21, 2020

du1-i-syn Rabbi Weisz took up new duties leading Appleton’s Zion Reform Jewish Congregation and Erik had his first name change, to Ehrich Weiss. The Weiss family fell into poverty, however,…

Letters: The old leftist hatreds are reawakening
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Letters: The old leftist hatreds are reawakening

September 18, 2020

If you are told directly that you worship to hate or harm specific groups, it becomes a part of your religion. That’s why the Muslim countries surrounding Israel will probably…

Letters: Have you seen the out-of-state plates?
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Have you seen the out-of-state plates?

September 18, 2020

Surely, if it was obvious to me, a mere citizen, then the powers that be must have noticed the out-of-state plates and influx of visitors and, ergo, ramped up their…

Letters: Minkler, pleasingly, has no party agenda
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Letters: Minkler, pleasingly, has no party agenda

September 18, 2020

His work on the Planning Commission, Homebuilders Association and being a graduate of Leadership La Plata make him the best person for the job. There is no doubt he has…

Letters: Vote for Trump, not just a personality
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Letters: Vote for Trump, not just a personality

September 17, 2020

Don’t cast your vote solely on a personality. Cast your vote on the solid platform of progressive programs and policies that were created by Trump and his Republican administration since…

Letters: Ignore Herald and say Yes to paid leave
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Letters: Ignore Herald and say Yes to paid leave

September 17, 2020

The policy laid out in Proposition 118 is modest, yet the Herald argues 12 weeks is too expensive. Would eight weeks be enough? Maybe, but 12 weeks is Proposition 118’s…

Our view: American caste
Editorials

Our view: American caste

September 17, 2020

Wilkerson’s book takes a fresh look at the country’s oldest problem

Letters: Pretend caring about Trump supporters
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Letters: Pretend caring about Trump supporters

September 16, 2020

Trump’s tax cuts performed as they were designed. Adjusted Gross Income gained 5.7% in 2019. But the laughable part is Ohman’s adoration of Joe Biden, whose dealings with China and…

Letters: How can he be sure what Trump said?
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Letters: How can he be sure what Trump said?

September 16, 2020

I assume Vigil was present when Trump made that statement, or how would he have no doubt? However, there are several high-level officials who were there who dispute that claim.…

Letters: It’s Lauren Boebert who’s being untrue
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Letters: It’s Lauren Boebert who’s being untrue

September 15, 2020

She can’t repeal the ACA and protect Coloradans at the same time. And she has not spelled out her health care plans. I have specific plans to improve health care…

Our view: Unrecycling
Editorials

Our view: Unrecycling

September 15, 2020

reuse of plastic trash isn’t working – but will anyone listen now?

Letters: On climate, we can save our future now
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Letters: On climate, we can save our future now

September 14, 2020

The Climate Reality Project summarized the four ways the climate crisis is impacting Colorado: Heat. Colorado temperatures have increased two degrees in the last 30 years. Increased heat translates to…

Letters: Send Sen. Cory Gardner back to Yuma
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Letters: Send Sen. Cory Gardner back to Yuma

September 14, 2020

One bill – the Great America Outdoors Act – does not make him an environmental champion. He opposed limiting the profligate release of methane. He opposes the bipartisan Colorado wilderness…

Our view: The accidental president
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Our view: The accidental president

September 14, 2020

Theodore Roosevelt, painted by John Singer Sargent, 1903.The White House There is case to be made that such accidental presidents, as one author labels them in a recent study, can…

Letters: Many red flags for proposed RV park
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Letters: Many red flags for proposed RV park

September 13, 2020

Why are rural residents being asked to accommodate an enormous increase in traffic volume and noise? Why does Southwest Land Services owner and president Brian Kimmel decline to say who…

Letters: Durango screws up 32nd Street again
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Letters: Durango screws up 32nd Street again

September 12, 2020

This property should have been purchased back in 2009 when the city could have gotten all three properties along the river at a bargain price. And this property next to…