Letters to the Editor

Support our economy, Public Lands Day

We are lucky to live in Durango where we can explore so many spectacular public lands right near home. But…

February 13, 2016

Take the opportunity to thank Hillcrest

What many of you may not know is the snowmobile that is used for grooming died two days after our…

February 13, 2016

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Contribute to excellent Hillcrest grooming

I witnessed a selfless act of an elderly skier skiing with a shovel and no poles. He was covering the…

February 13, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Events demonstrate racism in America

When the Ammon Bundy bunch proclaimed their alliance for the constitutional rights of ranchers, loggers and miners, he lost all…

February 13, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Forest management helps ease budgets

Although the story and RSA do a great job at explaining the need for change (less money), they don’t address…

February 12, 2016

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Aid in dying gives options, not orders

The debate is sadly divided along ideological lines with the opposition seemingly unable to hear the rebuttal to their arguments…

February 12, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Tell the BLM to protect favorite places

Last February, the Bureau of Land Management came out with a plan that dictates how we can use and access…

February 11, 2016

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Cover churches’ good work – not cults

I am part of the Christian community in this area and am aware of so many good things going on…

February 11, 2016

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Ban the box

is at root an acknowledgement of some fundamental realities

February 10, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Pesticides are scarier than the pandemic

Not that long ago in the news, a well-to-do family rented a vacation villa where extreme illness and death resulted…

February 7, 2016

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Do not idle cars; do pick up after dogs

You should not leave your car idling because carbon monoxide reduces air quality and affects everyone’s health, causes global climate…

February 7, 2016

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Editorial ignored a long-standing law

Beyond the founding principle of gender equity in pay, to quote the website verbatim, “Pay differentials are permitted when they…

February 7, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Move Snowdown’s focus off drinking

Having attended Snowdown events over 20 years, I experienced Snowdown evolve from outdoor fun to bar games. Snowdown should focus…

February 7, 2016

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LPEA base rate increase inexplicable

Board minutes clearly show extensive consideration of the effect of not increasing the base charge. Board minutes show LPEA staff…

February 7, 2016

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Compare candidates to help unaffiliated

Before the candidates are chosen, now is the time to find out what each candidate will do about key issues.…

February 7, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Add comment option beyond Facebook

Public comment through normal profiles (with all the regulatory checks and balances) exist at media outlets and papers throughout the…

February 6, 2016

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Coloradans deserve options in life, death

I have always been a fighter. Each individual needs to find their own threshold of where their quality of life…

February 6, 2016

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Even under $2 gas here is too expensive

So, pity those who live in places like Pagosa, which is an hour farther away but paying even lower prices?…

February 6, 2016

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Be patient about Superfund listing

From a distance, it’s easy for Lachelt to say that La Plata County was more affected by the Gold King…

February 6, 2016

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Lure airline competition with new airport

But that is not likely to happen soon. So the best thing Durango and La Plata County can do is…

February 4, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Code allows sidewalk snow in street

“Excluding” means the opposite of “including.” The way I read it, one cannot take snow from a private property and…

February 4, 2016

Letters to the Editor

Cruz is not eligible to be president

The authors were all well educated and prominent gentlemen who traveled everywhere, mostly by horse-drawn conveyance, and thus had a…

February 3, 2016

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Put local people before foreign profits

Since moving to Hesperus in the spring of 2013, I have read about the increasing number of trucks the company…

February 3, 2016

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DGO column would mortify Ballantines

But while reading through the publication I came upon a column by Dan Savage. The topics he covered were, to…

February 1, 2016