Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Energy choices affect public health
As a physician, protecting patients from the effects of heavy metals is an important part of my job, be that testing children for unsafe blood lead levels or counseling expecting…
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Mine coverage a ‘disaster’ for tourism
I found one definition for the word “disaster” that follows: a sudden event, such as an accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life. Perhaps…
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EPA will benefit and grow from spill
Some have opined that the EPA let some contractor do this work without sufficient surveys, warnings or adequate knowledge of the mine and its millions of gallons of contaminated water.…
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Prioritize sewer plant over new airport
Think of what could be done with that land and how it could vastly improve our city’s southern entrance. Residents are already paying higher sewer bills so that we can…
Editorials
Contraception cash
Temporarily funding collective will keep birth-control program afloat – for now
Letters to the Editor
Think about effects of personal choices
First: Yeah, Durango! To think we are “awake” enough to cut water consumption 70 percent in honor of our sick river blows my mind. It could only happen here. Second:…
Letters to the Editor
River spill will pay big dividends
People all over the world have seen the picture of the yellow river winding its way through the heart of the city. There is no need for anyone to have…
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Encouraging letter inspires teacher
He wrote, “My experience has been that if students either become overly frustrated with the art of writing or get away without really having to work at it, especially in…
Letters to the Editor
Thanks for coverage of Animas River spill
Making the articles accessible to everyone by lifting the paywall is another fine example of your community leadership. We are fortunate to have such a fine news team in our…
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A way we can all use renewable energy
Local solar installers have been busy during the past several years encouraging the “greenies” among us to purchase their solar projects to reduce long-range electrical bills. This is a great…
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Perhaps spill will spur better protection
Without the river’s yellow coloration, would a contractor have attempted a fix on its own and possibly forgo reporting, figuring it could go unnoticed at least for the while it…
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Look into the EPA’s political opposition
There are experts who can speak to this issue better than I can, so I won’t go into details, but leave the above mentions to you to investigate on your…
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Take care when around mama bears
Well, driving home from town later, Mama Bear and her two juvenile twins crossed the road in front of me coming from the direction of my place. Guess she’s been…
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McGrath’s judgment in question on spill
Preparedness should have been McGrath’s first priority before authorizing his EPA team to start work with an independent contractor on investigating the extent of contamination seeping from the abandoned Gold…
Editorial Cartoons
The Blame Game
Letters to the Editor
City, county must enforce bear policy
So, why are there laws to support this, yet no one enforces them? Why do citizens and businesses of the city of Durango and La Plata County continue to get…
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Contaminated plume is EPA’s ugly baby
Where is the Hollywood outrage? Are those tree-hugging left-wing liberals asleep? Don’t they know there is a presidential election coming up? Maybe the EPA can beg BP, Exxon, Haliburton, Conoco-Phillips,…
Editorials
EPA answers
Inquiries into our mine mishap must be swift and shared openly with the public
Letters to the Editor
Install signs to explain industrial history
Hopefully, not much dissolution of the glassy material in that pretty slag pile, especially in a hard fall rain, has also been a source of potentially toxic metals released to…
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In hindsight, collaboration was a mistake
But, in retrospect, it has become clear that the collaborative effort was a mistake. It appears to me that the EPA yielded to the wishes of the residents of San…
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EPA, BP spills offer many comparisons
I currently reside in Texas and have been in the oil business all my career. The comparison between the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the response…