Opinion & Letters to the Editor

Forest management helps ease budgets
Letters to the Editor

Forest management helps ease budgets

February 12, 2016

Although the story and RSA do a great job at explaining the need for change (less money), they don’t address the nature of the agency’s chronic budget problems. The reality…

Aid in dying gives options, not orders
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Aid in dying gives options, not orders

February 12, 2016

The debate is sadly divided along ideological lines with the opposition seemingly unable to hear the rebuttal to their arguments that this is physician-assisted suicide and a slippery slope toward…

Roberts’ vote courageous
Editorials

Roberts’ vote courageous

February 12, 2016

The bill was in reaction to the case of James Holmes who was convicted of killing 12 people and wounding 70 in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. One holdout juror…

Ending the draft
Editorials

Ending the draft

February 12, 2016

Bipartisan move comes after Pentagon allows women in all combat roles

Tell the BLM to protect favorite places
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Tell the BLM to protect favorite places

February 11, 2016

Last February, the Bureau of Land Management came out with a plan that dictates how we can use and access our BLM lands, like Phil’s World, for the next 15…

Master leasing plan
Editorials

Master leasing plan

February 11, 2016

should use tool to determine, buffer gas and oil drilling impacts

Cover churches’ good work – not cults
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Cover churches’ good work – not cults

February 11, 2016

I am part of the Christian community in this area and am aware of so many good things going on at our local churches. It seems a shame not to…

Ban the box
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Ban the box

February 10, 2016

is at root an acknowledgement of some fundamental realities

Mines and parks
Editorials

Mines and parks

February 7, 2016

past primary name-calling and ask candidates about money for real needs

Pesticides are scarier than the pandemic
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Pesticides are scarier than the pandemic

February 7, 2016

Not that long ago in the news, a well-to-do family rented a vacation villa where extreme illness and death resulted from an irresponsible bug exterminator. I can only imagine the…

Do not idle cars; do pick up after dogs
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Do not idle cars; do pick up after dogs

February 7, 2016

You should not leave your car idling because carbon monoxide reduces air quality and affects everyone’s health, causes global climate change, wastes fuel and costs money, contributes to noise pollution,…

Editorial ignored a long-standing law
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Editorial ignored a long-standing law

February 7, 2016

Beyond the founding principle of gender equity in pay, to quote the website verbatim, “Pay differentials are permitted when they are based on seniority, merit, quantity or quality of production,…

Move Snowdown’s focus off drinking
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Move Snowdown’s focus off drinking

February 7, 2016

Having attended Snowdown events over 20 years, I experienced Snowdown evolve from outdoor fun to bar games. Snowdown should focus more how to have fun without relying on drinking games.…

LPEA base rate increase inexplicable
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LPEA base rate increase inexplicable

February 7, 2016

Board minutes clearly show extensive consideration of the effect of not increasing the base charge. Board minutes show LPEA staff is projecting a $3.9 million margin in 2016 with the…

Compare candidates to help unaffiliated
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Compare candidates to help unaffiliated

February 7, 2016

Before the candidates are chosen, now is the time to find out what each candidate will do about key issues. Tracy Brothers Durango

A salute to Mercury
Editorials

A salute to Mercury

February 7, 2016

Vantiv’s presence here shows Durango’s workplace appeal

Add comment option beyond Facebook
Letters to the Editor

Add comment option beyond Facebook

February 6, 2016

Public comment through normal profiles (with all the regulatory checks and balances) exist at media outlets and papers throughout the United States without the added layer of a mandatory Facebook…

Coloradans deserve options in life, death
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Coloradans deserve options in life, death

February 6, 2016

I have always been a fighter. Each individual needs to find their own threshold of where their quality of life is no longer viable. I have come to terms with…

Even under $2 gas here is too expensive
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Even under $2 gas here is too expensive

February 6, 2016

So, pity those who live in places like Pagosa, which is an hour farther away but paying even lower prices? That’s right: As of Feb. 1, gas in Pagosa was…

Be patient about Superfund listing
Letters to the Editor

Be patient about Superfund listing

February 6, 2016

From a distance, it’s easy for Lachelt to say that La Plata County was more affected by the Gold King Mine spill than San Juan County. From a distance, it’s…

Food stamps
Editorials

Food stamps

February 6, 2016

county should boost outreach efforts to enroll eligible residents

Lure airline competition with new airport
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Lure airline competition with new airport

February 4, 2016

But that is not likely to happen soon. So the best thing Durango and La Plata County can do is to improve airport facilities to “lure” more airlines into our…

Code allows sidewalk snow in street
Letters to the Editor

Code allows sidewalk snow in street

February 4, 2016

“Excluding” means the opposite of “including.” The way I read it, one cannot take snow from a private property and deposit it in the public street. That makes sense. However,…

Legislature
Editorials

Legislature

February 4, 2016

in session, but not yet focused on budgeting, lawmakers enter silly season

End of life
Editorials

End of life

February 3, 2016

Colorado state Legislature should extend options to the terminally ill

Cruz is not eligible to be president
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Cruz is not eligible to be president

February 3, 2016

The authors were all well educated and prominent gentlemen who traveled everywhere, mostly by horse-drawn conveyance, and thus had a lot of time to think. So, I doubt any word…

Put local people before foreign profits
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Put local people before foreign profits

February 3, 2016

Since moving to Hesperus in the spring of 2013, I have read about the increasing number of trucks the company Grupos Cementos de Chihuahua is running on the northern section…

Kindergarten
Editorials

Kindergarten

February 1, 2016

Full-day kindergarten is not a luxury but the beginning of a full education

DGO column would mortify Ballantines
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DGO column would mortify Ballantines

February 1, 2016

But while reading through the publication I came upon a column by Dan Savage. The topics he covered were, to me, something which would not normally be printed in free…

Wolf Creek
Editorials

Wolf Creek

February 1, 2016

FOIA fight marks another chapter in a generation-long battle