Letters to the Editor

Letters: It’s time to let taxpayers vote on bridge

Before I sat to write this letter to the editor, I decided I needed to become more informed; I attended…

March 11, 2020

Letters: 9-R needs more positive attention paid

Teachers and students are why the district exists. Through the Herald, I know more about what students are learning at…

March 11, 2020

Letters: 9-R board and administration were deaf

I’m sorry the cafeteria employees felt the community’s upset was directed at them. It doesn’t seem to me that folks…

March 10, 2020

Letters: Don’t let Trump destroy our democracy!

He has been empowered by his impeachment acquittal to begin functioning as a dictator. He has destroyed our constitutionally mandated…

March 10, 2020

Letters: Republicans are destroying democracy

The case as presented was undeniable. The Republicans broke their oath to weigh the evidence objectively, and continually shifted their…

Letters: Climate crisis is real, just ask Australia

Richard Riethmiller spouted disinformation on this crisis in his letter to the editor (“Climate nonsense dreamed up by profs,” Feb.…

Letters: Tri-State delivers a clean, green future

With closures of coal fired power plants plus huge new wind and solar generation projects they’re on track to be…

Letters: There is no climate crisis, no emergency

The liars have lied so well, so completely and for so long that the lies are now just accepted dogma…

Letters: Is this clear enough for you on climate?

The Sun’s radiation warms the Earth. The Earth radiates away heat in the infrared. Equilibrium temperature is reached where incoming…

March 8, 2020

Letters: Let’s stop paying for shadow electricity

You can save between $20 to $40 a month on your electric bill if you stop paying for shadow electricity.…

Letters: Are you really Trump’s kind of people?

Senator Susan Collins was sure there would be lessons learned by the president from his impeachment. Well he sure did.…

Letters: Get these Durango butts out

I’m asking these and all the other local businesses who share this smoking clientele to please take better care, and…

Letters: On bridge, three paths to the same point is overkill

If it were up to me I would build the single overpass from behind City Market (old recycling area) to…

Letters: Cory Gardner must be voted out of office

He,along with nearly every member of the Republican Senate, followed like lemmings to support the impeachment trial of President Trump,…

Letters: Skeptics are politicizing climate change

There are mistakes in his use of incomplete facts and knowledge. Acid Rain is and was real. Sulfur dioxide and…

Letters: Centura and Mercy should reconsider

The recent decision by Centura Health not to negotiate with the local community group, Southwest Health Alliance, was an enormous…

Letter: Every primary vote should be counted

Regardless of whether the candidates are in or out of the race, people took the trouble to vote for them…

Letters: Tipton doesn’t need a gun to slay leftists

Scott Tipton is a proven winner! He beat John Salazar and anyone else that has dared to oppose him! I…

Letters: City: Buy the house and tunnel under

Durango, we have a multi-million dollar word, “seamless.” This is the word that is applied to the Animas River Trail…

Letters: Time to penalize driving with a phone

We have all had to take defensive action against these drivers, often on a daily basis. CDOT has reported that…

Letters: They disliked Golden Gate at first, too

It is difficult to overstate the vehemence with which opponents tried to keep it from being built. Critics depicted the…