Opinion & Letters to the Editor

Letters: Montezuma officials are endangering us
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Montezuma officials are endangering us

August 9, 2020

Was anyone aware of our closest neighbor officials completely and openly ignoring guidelines? Want to guess how many Montezuma residents enter La Plata County on a daily basis? This is…

Letters: Should editorial be different than news?
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Should editorial be different than news?

August 7, 2020

The July 23 editorial was a classic example (“Colorado Democrats throw a little … mud: QAnon-curious candidate Lauren Boebert gets slammed by national media”). It quotes stories from The Daily…

Letters: Democrat climate ‘science’ is just junk
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Democrat climate ‘science’ is just junk

August 7, 2020

This of course would be the Democrats’ fear-mongering “existential threat.” All disciplines of science welcome questioning and discussions of theories. The scientists who develop new theories welcome debate because in…

Letters: Virus not silly to informed Americans
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Virus not silly to informed Americans

August 6, 2020

Stating that only about 5% of people who get COVID-19 die and most of them are old or otherwise health impaired is stunning. Lacking in his personal analysis is the…

Letters: Show the good cops you support them
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Show the good cops you support them

August 6, 2020

The sheriff vowed to do his job, but there was little chance he could defeat the gang alone. Citizens wouldn’t help: “We’re just storekeepers. This is your job.” Somehow, the…

Letters: It’s straight out of the fascist playbook
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Letters: It’s straight out of the fascist playbook

August 5, 2020

These episodes are straight out of the fascist playbook. If Trump is re-elected, he will claim that practices such as these have been approved by voters. He knows that the…

Our view: The day Columbus left Spain
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Our view: The day Columbus left Spain

August 3, 2020

Columbus makes landfall in the New World. Painting by John Vanderlyn, 1847.du1-i-syn The place was Palos de la Frontera, a village with a good harbor in southwestern Spain, on the…

Letters: This poem is wise and thought-provoking
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Letters: This poem is wise and thought-provoking

August 3, 2020

“And the people healed. And in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. “And when the danger passed and the…

Letters: What if Blacks had a sign about whites?
Letters to the Editor

Letters: What if Blacks had a sign about whites?

July 31, 2020

There was a time when lynchings of Americans with darker skin were celebrated. There was a time when Indigenous people were violently removed from their lands so that whites could…

Letters: This virus info not mainstream nonsense
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Letters: This virus info not mainstream nonsense

July 31, 2020

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, there have been approximately 150,000 deaths since March 1, so simple math determines a daily average of more than 1,000 deaths…

Letters: 9-R could save park with a conservancy
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Letters: 9-R could save park with a conservancy

July 31, 2020

What if Durango School District 9-R put Buckley Park into conservancy? It could then do a GoFundMe or other type of money drive and ask locals to fund the “People’s…

Letters: Natives should vote on the ‘Chief’ sign
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Letters: Natives should vote on the ‘Chief’ sign

July 30, 2020

I recommend taking a vote from the Native American people who are purportedly offended by his presence. There are more than 100,000 members of the numerous tribal reservations in the…

Letters: Support businesses that enforce masks
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Letters: Support businesses that enforce masks

July 30, 2020

Whose customer dollar is more important to them? The folks following the mask requirement or the folks who refuse to comply and expose employees and the rest of their customers…

Letters: You cannot see me smile as we pass
Letters to the Editor

Letters: You cannot see me smile as we pass

July 29, 2020

We appreciate your maturity and care for both the health of others and the viability of businesses by wearing masks. Particular thanks for those who demonstrate wearing masks correctly, over…

Letters: Shop local, for city managers like Blake
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Letters: Shop local, for city managers like Blake

July 29, 2020

Please, beloved citizens of my native hometown, let our City Council know better than to hand off managing Durango to either of two out-of-state male contenders, one of them from…

Letters: I went to a BLM rally at Buckley Park
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Letters: I went to a BLM rally at Buckley Park

July 29, 2020

I want to congratulate the citizens of Durango for behaving appropriately. Although I quietly disagreed with the first speaker, the evening was lovely and the hatred present elsewhere was absent…

Letters: Trump does just what he says he’ll do
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Letters: Trump does just what he says he’ll do

July 27, 2020

Joe Biden has been in politics a long time and what has he done? Enrich his son? He is a Democrat; Democrats have a history of making promises indicating that…

Letters: It may seem bureaucratic but it’s good
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Letters: It may seem bureaucratic but it’s good

July 27, 2020

This shift in priorities was significant enough that the state Legislature felt a full-time professional staff was needed for the commission to focus on key areas such as wildlife, the…

Letters: The right wing adores an egotistical liar
Letters to the Editor

Letters: The right wing adores an egotistical liar

July 26, 2020

Jeff Bleecker begins his letter on a humorous note, “We have a national outbreak of leftism sweeping our country.” Don’t I wish. Then it quickly turns ugly, claiming we “threaten…