Opinion & Letters to the Editor

Letters: Scott Tipton puts economy at risk
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Scott Tipton puts economy at risk

January 1, 2020

Tipton is failing to lead on public land and wilderness protection, even though outdoor recreation is a huge economic boon to our state’s economy. His recent vote joins a long…

Letters: Why are we getting wood from Canada?
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Why are we getting wood from Canada?

January 1, 2020

When I was unloading them at home, I noticed they were made in La Crete, Alberta. I looked La Crete up on Google Maps and saw that it is 1,900…

Letters: Reach out when grieving loss of pets
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Reach out when grieving loss of pets

December 31, 2019

With the capacity to love your pet as a member of the family comes the necessity to grieve when that beloved one dies. The death of a pet is, without…

Letters: The CORE Act has been misrepresented
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Letters: The CORE Act has been misrepresented

December 30, 2019

The CORE Act resulted from years of dialogue among stakeholders, including landowners, ranchers, motorized recreationists, hunters, conservationists, local business leaders and others from the affected areas. All existing uses and…

Letters: Homelessness is all about affordable housing
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Homelessness is all about affordable housing

December 26, 2019

These characterizations couldn’t be further from the truth, and its conclusion that Marbut “deserves (an) opportunity to show his stuff” could result in real harm to those his agency was…

Letters: I want these gun advertisements banned
Letters to the Editor

Letters: I want these gun advertisements banned

December 26, 2019

I grew up hunting and have a rifle collection. No accomplished sportsman will shoot 33 deer, elk or bears at a time. The sole purpose of this gun is either…

Letters: This holiday, give a livable world
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Letters: This holiday, give a livable world

December 24, 2019

It’s sad that teaching our kids about climate change is still considered “risky business, despite virtual unanimous agreement among the scientific community.” Yale climate opinion polls show 77% of Coloradans…

Letters: Who really hates the Constitution?
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Who really hates the Constitution?

December 24, 2019

It is people like Fleming who want to do away with the Electoral College (which is in the Constitution). They want to do away with the Second Amendment (also part…

Letters: Imagine impeachment with sports teams
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Letters: Imagine impeachment with sports teams

December 23, 2019

This is before the game is played. Trump has five of his players in jail and or going, so he needs help from the referee. Rudolph Guilliani is the water…

Letters: Scott Tipton is putting our economy at risk
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Scott Tipton is putting our economy at risk

December 22, 2019

Tipton is failing to lead on public land and wilderness protection, even though outdoor recreation is a huge economic boon to our state’s economy. His recent vote joins a long…

Letters: We can help environment in small ways, too
Letters to the Editor

Letters: We can help environment in small ways, too

December 21, 2019

For that reason, it pains me to bear witness to the rampant consumerism and disposable mindset of our society today. It’s not so much any one issue, but rather our…

Letters: Senators, support the child care act
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Letters: Senators, support the child care act

December 19, 2019

Now, as an assistant director of the Durango Early Learning Center, I oversee child care wait lists that run more than two years. Therefore, I truly understand the importance of…

Letters: We need to escape this methane cloud
Letters to the Editor

Letters: We need to escape this methane cloud

December 19, 2019

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and is 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it is emitted. It’s responsible for 25% of the…

Bombs away
Editorials

Bombs away

December 19, 2019

Romanoff debuts a Senate ad meant to scare you – and then what?

Letters: We’ve made reusable grocery bags from T-shirts
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Letters: We’ve made reusable grocery bags from T-shirts

December 18, 2019

Ultimately, corporations have to take responsibility for plastic packaging. That doesn’t mean we don’t have a voice regarding this issue. Whether it be a plastic bag ban, refusing plastic drinking…

Letters: City Council should intervene with Mercy
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Letters: City Council should intervene with Mercy

December 17, 2019

And further, once not long ago after a procedure there, my wife got a $4,000 bill from an “out of network” provider. And she was then insured by Blue Cross/Blue…

Letters: The thank-you is sarcasm
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Letters: The thank-you is sarcasm

December 17, 2019

All the signs tell me to stay in my lane to the merge point, which I did. I followed the rules. I stayed in the left lane until it was…

Our view: Were the British voters speaking to us?
Editorials

Our view: Were the British voters speaking to us?

December 16, 2019

du1-i-syn “This election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable…” Johnson paused. Had he started on the wrong foot? “Irresistible…” he said. Another pause. Was he possibly describing…

Letters: It’s hard to hear my fellow Democrats
Letters to the Editor

Letters: It’s hard to hear my fellow Democrats

December 14, 2019

I have never had the heart to tell them that perhaps their priorities are colored by the fact that they both have combined yearly incomes with their wives of over…

Letters: Republicans wipe their dirty feet on it
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Republicans wipe their dirty feet on it

December 13, 2019

They pretend to support the Constitution but really want to wipe their dirty feet on it. They don’t want the truth but alternate facts. They put the party in the…

Die, coyote, die
Editorials

Die, coyote, die

December 13, 2019

may need to be removed, but there are better ways than bombing