Letters to the Editor

NRA exists to shill for gun companies

Undoubtedly, the NRA loves the fact that the Second Amendment exists, but clearly, the NRA exists to protect the big-business…

Letter-writers get it right on several topics

GMOs benefit Big Agra companies – not farmers, not consumers and not people facing food shortages. Food shortages can be…

Government exists to steal your money

Clubs, groups, associations, charities, orders, religions and most other organizations and all trade and commerce are funded by the voluntary…

Montoya’s experience needed on LPEA board

LPEA is facing some critical issues. We are losing some senior management. We are in a battle with Tri-State Generation…

Move toward GMO labeling is happening

One reason for the lack of accurate scientific tests on GMOs is that the biotech companies like Monsanto refuse to…

Find out city’s real gun club intentions

My challenge to The Durango Herald is to undertake investigative reporting through filing Freedom of Information Act requests to the…

NRA analogous to Taliban, Hamas, al-Qaida

From this baseline, I’d characterize the following as representative NRA extremist notions: 1) The Second Amendment gives us a right…

Internet offers abundance of information

Agenda 21 is truly a United Nations plot to take over our country. Many thousands of U.N. operatives have infiltrated…

NRA not ‘nutty’ or ‘out of control’

The No. 1 goal of the NRA is to protect the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They went after…

Speak up about latest CDOT project

I feel now I am faced with the same situation in a different location, that is, another remake of an…

Troubling film was enriching and artistic, too

For film-goers who want to avoid films with darker elements, the festival program contains content-descriptors for each film; the descriptors…

U.S. could better serve its people

I don’t know Jones, but judging his comments, I assume he is of the “right-leaning” persuasion and is a member…

Affordable health care is available

Just after the New Year, I began exploring my health-care options on the Colorado Health Exchange, knowing that I would…

Editorial labeled groups unevenly

Allison McGee Johnson, Colorado Ethics Watch Denver

Don’t let deadly diseases return

The health-care issue is not a matter of religious preference – forcing people who go to a church that does…

Pay attention to powerplay at Animas High

Highlights of the meeting I’d like to share with the public are: the huge amount of support shown for Michael…

City of Durango should fund parking relief

I lived downtown for a time and was often thwarted in parking by the constant and year-round city-sponsored events. Once,…

Bear management a people problem?

By mechanisms, I imagine he means laws, and by “human food,” I imagine he is referring to my plum tree…

March 18, 2014

Evacuation was appropriate, even if panicked

As a grandparent, I would much rather they be evacuated and lose an hour of school than be planning their…

March 18, 2014

Risks of nuclear energy outweigh benefits

In the “Green Run” experiment, people living around the Hanford area were intentionally exposed to raw, irradiated uranium fuel, not…

March 17, 2014

City needs to write conflict-of-interest policy

City Council is currently proposing significant changes to the Land Use Development Code and City Code, and with respect to…

March 17, 2014