Opinion & Letters to the Editor

Letters: Restrict mountain biking to paved roads
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Restrict mountain biking to paved roads

December 1, 2019

But he didn’t go far enough. Mountain biking is totally incompatible with hiking, horseback riding, wildlife conservation and even the health of mountain bikers themselves. Permitting mountain biking was a…

Letters: How could you have opposed Prop CC?
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Letters: How could you have opposed Prop CC?

November 30, 2019

Unfortunately, Colorado is now at or near the bottom for funding teachers and schools. Our state is 50th in teacher wage competitiveness, 49th in novice teachers entering the profession, 47th…

Letters: This is the right use of sales tax proceeds
Letters to the Editor

Letters: This is the right use of sales tax proceeds

November 30, 2019

It is, an important project for the entire city, as Youssef indicated at the budget hearing. The social, environmental, economic and public health benefits are numerous and an important investment…

Letters: Push back on plastic bag myth
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Push back on plastic bag myth

November 29, 2019

We defeated this unnecessary drive years ago, and every clear-thinking resident needs to push back on an unfounded myth. Yes, plastic in the ocean is real and needs to be…

Letters: Confiscating guns only helps Democrats
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Letters: Confiscating guns only helps Democrats

November 29, 2019

Mass shootings, in comparison, are a recent and a sadly disturbing phenomena. Confiscating the rifles from law-abiding citizens (the only ones who would capitulate to an edict of this kind)…

How to do universal health care in steps
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How to do universal health care in steps

November 29, 2019

States can write a clean proposal and put it directly before their voters. Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan does it state by state. A candidate could promise to support…

Letters: Bag-banners are brainwashing children
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Letters: Bag-banners are brainwashing children

November 28, 2019

They brainwash the young school-age children to hate these very useful bags as dangerous to the environment, After these children have been indoctrinated to their liking, they put them up…

Speed the day when parties are whole
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Speed the day when parties are whole

November 27, 2019

I am registered as an independent because I cannot respect either political party at the national level. Their priority is the next election rather than compromising to do what’s appropriate…

Letters: Durango must take climate action NOW
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Letters: Durango must take climate action NOW

November 25, 2019

Durango’s winter hardiness agricultural index has increased from a Zone 4 in the 1990s to a Zone 6 today and the region has been experiencing less rainfall in the summer…

Letters: Onward and upward with the CORE Act
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Letters: Onward and upward with the CORE Act

November 24, 2019

You hopefully also know that the CORE Act passed the U.S. House on Oct. 31 with bipartisan support. Thank you, Rep. Joe Neguse, for championing this bill. Diverse stakeholders including…

Letters: Three cheers for library district passage
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Letters: Three cheers for library district passage

November 24, 2019

This has been a great example of civic involvement. The campaign to pass this district was driven by a group of citizens with widespread support from the families living in…

We need more no-mountain-bike trails
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We need more no-mountain-bike trails

November 23, 2019

As the proliferation of bikers on trails grows, these impacts (and conflicts) are growing in frequency and intensity. I would add that besides impacts on wildlife, there is also an…

Letters: Congressmen, have you no decency at long last?
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Letters: Congressmen, have you no decency at long last?

November 22, 2019

McCarthy had climbed from obscurity with a campaign of bullying and innuendo that attacked people and institutions with a charge of Communist complicity. Among those attacked were the State Department…

Letters: Is Tipton seeing what I’m seeing?
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Letters: Is Tipton seeing what I’m seeing?

November 22, 2019

In the article, he says Ambassador William Taylor reporting what his aide overheard in a phone conversation between the president and Ambassador Gordon Sondland was hearsay because Taylor didn’t hear…

Letters: These bridges are your money well spent
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Letters: These bridges are your money well spent

November 22, 2019

Since 2011, public safety has been a priority for three different city councils in connecting the Animas River Trail. Superintendent Dan Snowberger, the Needham Elementary PTO and the Riverview Elementary…

Letters: Your bias on impeachment is showing
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Letters: Your bias on impeachment is showing

November 21, 2019

All presidents can issue a blanket recall and request resignations of every political appointee who served under the previous administration. Some did, some didn’t. A Foreign Service officer with 30…

Letters: the ban-bags busybodies are back
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Letters: the ban-bags busybodies are back

November 20, 2019

Sneakier? Probably! More deceitful? Most definitely! But not smarter. They will be taking their bags-are-bad narrative to City Council hoping that this newest council isn’t any smarter than the previous…

Letters: Come join our climate strike
Letters to the Editor

Letters: Come join our climate strike

November 20, 2019

In the face of this existential threat, we must not allow ourselves to become paralyzed. We already know that no one is coming to save us – now is the…