Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Opinion
Support Our Streets organizing in Bayfield
To promote this sales tax increase, a group of citizens have come together to raise awareness and funding to promote this increase. The Committee to Support our Streets is now…
Opinion
BAAM thanks Bayberry Jam supporters
This event was again a huge success because of all the support YOU give us! Thank you to all of our student and parent volunteers. We cannot make the festival…
Letters to the Editor
Al Sharpton will sit this one out
Oh wait, oops, my bad. The shooter was Muslim. And, oh heck, that was merely workplace violence. Whatever was I thinking – that just wouldn’t play into the racial-division agenda.…
Letters to the Editor
Frequent flyers avoid Durango airport
We are frequent flyers and will do almost anything to avoid flying out of our Durango-La Plata County Airport. Three of our last four flights have been canceled or delayed,…
Letters to the Editor
Pit bulls’ reputation is earned
The owner managed to pull him off of me. It was a terrifying experience. I had to have stitches and shots. If that dog hadn’t been on a leash, my…
Letters to the Editor
Vagrants invaded personal space
I understand all of the bleeding-heart arguments about why they are here. But my children and I have a right to feel safe and not have our personal space invaded…
Letters to the Editor
Give Hay Gulch residents breathing room
The diesel and dust means there are no picnics to be had in the vicinity, not even on Sunday because 120 trucks is 240 trips, every day, and on through…
Letters to the Editor
Replace Andrew Jackson, not Hamilton
Andrew Jackson, who is pictured on the $20 bill was, as the Herald rightly noted, something of a scoundrel and racist, so replacing his likeness with some woman’s likeness would…
Letters to the Editor
Hillcrest tournament had the better golf
I spent part of Sunday afternoon at Hillcrest watching the Navajo Trail Open. I saw good players on a superbly conditioned course. It looked more like golf. Ed Fowler Durango
Letters to the Editor
Local veterans deserve our support
The piece highlighted the folly of a donation of marijuana. Indeed, that is amusing, but the real story is that local vets need our help. I encourage everyone to send…
Letters to the Editor
Follow ongoing changes to Powerhouse
As Gardner pointed out, the community deserves answers. As was mentioned in our letter to the community, the board felt it had no other option but to close. Given our…
Letters to the Editor
Firing may be legal, but it was not right
Brandon is a quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair. So Dish Network fired him and the court ruled that it had a right to do so. But that doesn’t mean that…
Letters to the Editor
Get the facts before insulting the U.S.
I do take exception to his notion that this nation had “ruthless disdain” for other people by using the atomic bomb during World War II against Japan. It is estimated…
Letters to the Editor
FLC basketball coach going out in style
Superb passing and ball movement. Reversing the ball from one side to the other is big in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference with the 35-second clock. Even with the 24-second…
Letters to the Editor
D-Day should not go by without notice
I was disappointed by the realization that perhaps our country is letting this day become just another day. Since America has been at war for years now, maybe we’ve just…
Letters to the Editor
Monuments protect Colorado way of life
This type of threat to the Antiquities Act is why I was in Washington, D.C., recently visiting U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner and Rep. Scott Tipton to thank…
Letters to the Editor
Pit bulls do not deserve the stereotype
Along with current information from Tulane University and the American Veterinary Medicine Association (www.avma.org), legitimate research indicates that breed is not a factor in dog-bite related incidents. Rather, there are…
Letters to the Editor
John Peel’s writing will be sorely missed
And despite the blood, sweat and tears, he made it look easy! Thanks to Peel for sharing his humanity with us. Happy trails. Clint McKnight Durango
Letters to the Editor
Recognize the value of our public lands
I moved my company to Durango because this area has the ideal combination of a lively town, excellent personal and business amenities and unsurpassed access to the outdoors and recreation…
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Yellow arrows continue CDOT confusion
I simply do not know how Southwest Colorado, with the magnificientulous Bridge to Nowhere and the spandanfantaculous 160/550 intersection, and now this ingeniousilouity arrow scheme managed to get the brightest…
Letters to the Editor
Time running out to sign up for water
Many people have experienced that terrible feeling that hits you when you turn the faucet on and nothing comes out. LPWWA is offering an end to that feeling for people…
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Roberts was right to support SB 268
This bill was not about personhood or overturning Roe vs. Wade but about giving prosecutors the ability to charge someone with murder when they kill a fetus against a women’s…
Letters to the Editor
County is ‘flim-flamming’ on airport
First, they want 130 more acres. Then, $500,000 for a breezeway to enter Frontier planes. then, hints of refurbishing the old, updating the old or relocating and building a new…