Letters to the Editor

Letters: How could you have opposed Prop CC?

Unfortunately, Colorado is now at or near the bottom for funding teachers and schools. Our state is 50th in teacher…

November 30, 2019

Letters: This is the right use of sales tax proceeds

It is, an important project for the entire city, as Youssef indicated at the budget hearing. The social, environmental, economic…

November 30, 2019

Letters: Push back on plastic bag myth

We defeated this unnecessary drive years ago, and every clear-thinking resident needs to push back on an unfounded myth. Yes,…

Letters: Confiscating guns only helps Democrats

Mass shootings, in comparison, are a recent and a sadly disturbing phenomena. Confiscating the rifles from law-abiding citizens (the only…

Letters: Tipton and Gardner are saving us from the CORE Act

Rep. Joe Neguse, elected November, 2018, brings the bill forward this year. He represents District 2, with his office in…

How to do universal health care in steps

States can write a clean proposal and put it directly before their voters. Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan does…

Letters: Bag-banners are brainwashing children

They brainwash the young school-age children to hate these very useful bags as dangerous to the environment, After these children…

November 28, 2019

Speed the day when parties are whole

I am registered as an independent because I cannot respect either political party at the national level. Their priority is…

November 27, 2019

Letters: Impeachment is just a ploy by Democrats

They donâ€™t accept the will of the people. They seem to think they are gods. They are not. Daniel RoemerDurango

November 26, 2019

Letters: Why can’t we put the homeless in Three Springs?

As we know, there are lots of roadblocks to housing in La Plata County. The biggest factor is economic disparity.…

November 26, 2019

Letters: Durango must take climate action NOW

Durango’s winter hardiness agricultural index has increased from a Zone 4 in the 1990s to a Zone 6 today and…

November 25, 2019

Letters: Onward and upward with the CORE Act

You hopefully also know that the CORE Act passed the U.S. House on Oct. 31 with bipartisan support. Thank you,…

November 24, 2019

Letters: Three cheers for library district passage

This has been a great example of civic involvement. The campaign to pass this district was driven by a group…

November 24, 2019

We need more no-mountain-bike trails

As the proliferation of bikers on trails grows, these impacts (and conflicts) are growing in frequency and intensity. I would…

November 23, 2019

Letters: Congressmen, have you no decency at long last?

McCarthy had climbed from obscurity with a campaign of bullying and innuendo that attacked people and institutions with a charge…

Letters: Is Tipton seeing what I’m seeing?

In the article, he says Ambassador William Taylor reporting what his aide overheard in a phone conversation between the president…

Letters: Your cat has one word for you – “plastics”

Nothing inspires more fear in the hearts of feline parents alike, for what are we to use now to dispose…

Letters: These bridges are your money well spent

Since 2011, public safety has been a priority for three different city councils in connecting the Animas River Trail. Superintendent…

Letters: Your bias on impeachment is showing

All presidents can issue a blanket recall and request resignations of every political appointee who served under the previous administration.…

November 21, 2019

Letters: the ban-bags busybodies are back

Sneakier? Probably! More deceitful? Most definitely! But not smarter. They will be taking their bags-are-bad narrative to City Council hoping…

November 20, 2019

Letters: Come join our climate strike

In the face of this existential threat, we must not allow ourselves to become paralyzed. We already know that no…

November 20, 2019