Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
These parks projects are boondoggles
Barb mentions multimillion dollar projects being proposed that are indeed questionable. She also mentions the millions of dollars that the Parks and Recreation Department has at its disposal, but for…
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What will our grandchildren ask us?
A young lady seated behind me had an emphatic reply – “for climate change not to be real.” I also learned that she is inspired by the work of renowned…
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Tri-State has dirty coal and no Plan B
Coal is the most damaging fuel to our environment, climate and health. It’s also too expensive to sell, except in long-term contracts like ours. Since it’s so expensive, investors have…
Editorials
Staggering, stupid
Two Florida men plead guilty to trophy poaching of mule deer and antelope
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We need to get rid of minimum wage
The time has come to eliminate the minimum wage and to associate what an individual is paid with education and experience. When an individual turns 16, a rite of passage…
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Tipton needs to hear from us on climate
She lost the race to be our representative to Congress to our current representative, Rep. Scott Tipton, who in 2015 voted for a resolution that nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency’s…
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Hospitals, insurers are ripping us off
Every layer of our current insurance system includes costs for administrators, marketers, lobbyists, lawyers and advertisers. This adds up to 20 percent of what insurers collect for premiums that heal…
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Thinking green gets it wrong — again
In his Dec. 16 Thinking Green column (“Change confronts rural electric co-ops”), he claims Tri-State is “unresponsive to the needs and wants” of its members. That it exhibits a “lethargic…
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President Trump is a very big, big liar
Trump in his mind has made America great again by hanging around criminals starting with his lawyer and others and chumming up to dictators and leaders from Russia, Turkey, Syria,…
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Editorial on Mideast is a Trumpian insult
The Trumpian tantrum headline surely calls to mind Charles Lindbergh’s pro-Nazi isolationism just before World War II. Unless you are attempting to co-opt those of us who marched against the…
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Don’t be swayed by the anti-tax crowd
Durango has been fortunate to have had many years of gas tax revenues that contributed to our economy. But with gas production in decline we need to look to the…
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I want Durango to leverage the wealthy
I want it to be known as more than a place to drink beer and ski by college students and tourists, or by the .01 percent as a place to…
Editorials
Our opinion year
From endorsements to a space dog, plus your letters, it was a time had by all
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Articles about Snowberger are unhelpful
He is present in classrooms, giving him an accurate feel for what is happening in his district. He wants to continually improve, as shown by the recent change in the…
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The season to thank locals on 416 Fire
They are the professionals (career and volunteer) who every day are making a difference in people’s lives; and most of the time, without notice or appreciation. It is these men…
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Skyridge must be made safe from fire
Skyridge residents live at the interface of open land with dense oak brush forest and a lot of dead timber. If a fire would start on the ridge, it would…
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These stupid, reckless, selfish drivers
Recently, within three days, I was almost involved in two different automobile accidents as a result of two stupid, impatient drivers, by their improper lane usage. First incident, approximately 1…
Editorials
They went West
Colorado keeps growing in the Front Range, which could be our silver lining
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Tax credits can help with insurance cost
The issue has been ongoing in the southwestern Colorado region for years. I would like to share information on the assistance available to all Colorado residents through the Advance Premium…
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Winston, the British lion, is still roaring
I was one of the estimated 320,000 people who stood in line to file past the catafalque containing Churchill’s body in 1965. It was a very moving occasion, with many…
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Where is all this water coming from?
There’s a 400-home subdivision planned for east of Bayfield. At Three Springs, they’re talking 2,300 homes, and in Twin Buttes, up to 655. In Edgemont they’re going for 900 houses.…
Editorials
We’re out of there
All bad things must come to an end, such as Mideast military involvement
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You look just like an ostrich on climate
I realize head-in-the-sand denialism is one way to deal with the realization that we are all responsible. But to dream up the conspiracy that “elite globalists” are behind it all…
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Math shows that Council is reasonable
Actually, an increase of 159 percent in 16 years is about an annual increase of 3 percent; an annual increase of 10 percent per year for 16 years would be…
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Media is deceiving public on sandwiches
Going back to Merriam-Webster, bread is defined as “a usually baked and leavened food made of a mixture whose basic constituent is flour or meal.” It’s fairly obvious that the…