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Letters to the Editor

Letters: Shooting shows de-funding’s a bad idea

Instead of armed and trained officers showing up when an alarm goes off, the alarm company calls the store manager…

July 8, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: ‘Chief’ a commonplace racist caricature

As an Indigenous woman who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and a tribal nation, I believe education and…

July 8, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Tri-State is making big green strides

At one point in early May, Tri-State Generation and Transmission supplied 58% renewable energy to its members. It was a…

July 8, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Tourists are bringing more virus to town

We all know that many of our visitors are from two of the states being hardest hit by COVID-19. I…

July 8, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: We’ve tried being pleasant about masks

We try being pleasant, but what then? Without enforcement, citizens are put in an uncomfortable position to respond. Should those…

July 7, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: There is mainstream virus nonsense

According to the CDC, about one-third of COVID-19 deaths are 85 or older, and some 80% are 65 or older,…

July 7, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Can’t we have happy Natives on signs?

What’s your prejudice or bigotry that you can’t see a happy Native American? What is racist about a Native American…

July 7, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Check out this fire-mitigation resource

Charlie Landsman, its La Plata County coordinator, is an amazing, knowledgeable home ignition zone specialist. He works closely with a…

July 7, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Hooray for bump-outs

has done a fine job moving ahead with making Main Avenue a piazza

July 7, 2020

Editorials

Our view: A day for African-American champions

Althea Gibson at Wimbledon, 1957du1-i-syn At the outset of the 1950s, Gibson was a formidable tennis player but she was…

July 6, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Forget reform and consider real justice

Just recently in New York City, a punk with over 100 arrests was free on the street and hit a…

July 6, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: This is a reward and punishment society

Examples: someone’s great sense of entitlement, attempts at making one feel stupid, unworthy of opportunity, being incompetent, not good enough,…

July 6, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Virus could have been handled better

But, in my opinion, the last to sequester, and the first to return to school and normalcy, were the children.…

July 6, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Fight for more equitable health care

The article goes on to add that “Although Congress mandated free coronavirus testing for uninsured persons, the order has not…

July 5, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Masks and social distancing are working

I recently came from Santa Cruz County, Arizona, population 46,000, mostly rural with one larger town, very similar to La…

July 5, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: The bears come out and get in the trash

The bears are out and into trash. Thatâ€™s right, the bears are in the trash. Please place your trash cans…

July 4, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Extending mask order was a good move

That is a great relief to many, who feel safer going out and helping the economy without the fear of…

July 4, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: How about the face of a real ‘chief’?

This certainly would get rid of the caricature aspect of the piece. There may need to be a little more…

July 3, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Our view: Racist stereotypes need to go bye-bye

My memories of The Chief diner and its iconic sign are less than happy. In the mid-1950s, my entire family…

July 3, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Vandalism is not the American way

When I wrote that law, I was thinking of the artists’ First Amendment rights to self-expression and the question of…

July 3, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trump has his knee on Republicans’ necks

I say to the patriots of this country, be patient – President Trump has his knee on the neck of…

July 3, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Declaration of Independence was a perfect beacon put up by imperfect men

July 3, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Whose Columbus is it?

sadly torn over Columbus statue

July 2, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Opposing ‘Chief’ sign is PC run amok

First, it’s on private property, Meets all the silly hysterical society and city building codes. Leave it alone. I was…

July 2, 2020