Letters to the Editor

Ask for better local television coverage

Recent federal law has opened the county to Denver coverage, but providers are hesitant in the current situation. An alternative…

September 1, 2017

Lifetime sports in our schools and town

Our schools can put more emphasis on the lifetime sports most often introduced during school years. However, the Durango School…

September 1, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Time to remove all references to Cortez

Did you know that Cortez is named after a genocidal, privileged man who slaughtered thousands of indigenous people and stole…

August 31, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Printing column was the real ‘shanda’

Why are we allowed to say things about Jews that we are not allowed to say about any other race…

August 30, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Use of boot is bad for local businesses

We live 20 miles outside of town and the logistics of getting her home and back to town to recover…

August 30, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Homeless coalition concerned about cuts

As an organization that works toward the prevention of homelessness by providing a continuum of housing, integrated health care and…

August 29, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Effective missile defense depends upon Congress

If money is a problem — like if other countries stop lending to us — we can eliminate some of…

August 29, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Public library funds are in good hands

The building fund was established to augment the bond issue. Funds were donated to support the new library through the…

August 28, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Revisiting marijuana use-calculations

Eight out of 10 youths in La Plata County reported in the 2015 survey they had not used alcohol or…

August 26, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Rural La Plata County deserves better

Gwen Lachelt may perhaps be excused for the considerable insensitivity and tone-deafness of this move. But Julie Westendorff and Brad…

August 26, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Hate speech is not equal to free speech

“Dear Honorable President Donald J. Trump, First Lady, Senators, Congressmen and staff: One of the many slogans on banners across…

August 26, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Herald news should stick to the facts

Instead of factual news, it sank to name calling and sarcasm. The low point was “someone evicted the rat-king, when…

August 26, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Library card the best deal around

That alone would be enough, but for the month of September, the Durango Public Library is partnering with 59 local…

August 26, 2017

Letters to the Editor

War cannot be won on a battlefield

It is astounding that H.R. McMaster, with all his scathing insight into the Vietnam debacle in his book Dereliction of…

August 26, 2017

Letters to the Editor

It’s time for a Trump family intervention

I’m writing to you today out of deep concern for the president, your dad/husband. I may not be his biggest…

August 25, 2017

Letters to the Editor

A call to end transgender discrimination

We commend the local school district and parent Tirzah Camacho, for their work and commitment to offer gender neutral bathrooms…

August 25, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Action on our monuments is hypocrisy

These open spaces are a public asset that once lost, can never be recovered. Recently President Trump charged his interior…

August 25, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Mercy is an outstanding local hospital

From the time she was admitted, each member of the team brought the expertise needed to meet the challenges of…

August 24, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Act will not mean loss of public control

The Resilient Federal Forests Act includes many different provisions, including incentivizing collaboration, simplifying environmental processes and fixing wildfire funding. The…

August 24, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Your reader poll link is difficult to find

If you had a easy to see link, more folks would participate! Sandy Burke Durango Editorâ€™s note: The Reader Poll…

August 23, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Rewriting history is a form of censorship

Do these fools think they can somehow change our history by toppling a few bronze replicas of Civil War soldiers?…

August 23, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Do we really need a park in the sky?

Then, in a front page August 18 article we see that the county fairgrounds is to be moved and vastly…

August 23, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Shocked to hear of decision on alcohol

That is great news for Cortez. I am sure the restaurant owners will appreciate the business. It’s like if the…

August 22, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Healthcare system about profit, not care

Like many primary care physicians, I retired early from practice because this system was not allowing me to care for…

August 22, 2017