Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Get these Durango butts out

I’m asking these and all the other local businesses who share this smoking clientele to please take better care, and…

March 7, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: On bridge, three paths to the same point is overkill

If it were up to me I would build the single overpass from behind City Market (old recycling area) to…

March 7, 2020

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Letters: Cory Gardner must be voted out of office

He,along with nearly every member of the Republican Senate, followed like lemmings to support the impeachment trial of President Trump,…

March 6, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Skeptics are politicizing climate change

There are mistakes in his use of incomplete facts and knowledge. Acid Rain is and was real. Sulfur dioxide and…

March 6, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Centura and Mercy should reconsider

The recent decision by Centura Health not to negotiate with the local community group, Southwest Health Alliance, was an enormous…

March 6, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Every primary vote should be counted

Regardless of whether the candidates are in or out of the race, people took the trouble to vote for them…

March 6, 2020

Editorials

Our view: So long, Elizabeth

invigorating candidacy and ideas will never go out of fashion

March 5, 2020

Editorials

Our view: How not to handle a virus

Speaking of how not to handle a virus ...

March 5, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Tipton doesn’t need a gun to slay leftists

Scott Tipton is a proven winner! He beat John Salazar and anyone else that has dared to oppose him! I…

March 5, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: City: Buy the house and tunnel under

Durango, we have a multi-million dollar word, “seamless.” This is the word that is applied to the Animas River Trail…

March 5, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Time to penalize driving with a phone

We have all had to take defensive action against these drivers, often on a daily basis. CDOT has reported that…

March 5, 2020

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Letters: They disliked Golden Gate at first, too

It is difficult to overstate the vehemence with which opponents tried to keep it from being built. Critics depicted the…

March 5, 2020

Editorials

Our view: So Super Tuesday was fun …

Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primaries won’t relieve the pressure

March 4, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Low teacher pay is a Colorado crisis

We expect them to donate hundreds of unpaid hours, while purchasing classroom supplies and working under stressful and emotionally challenging…

March 4, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Cory Gardner is green and bipartisan

He was ranked No. 2 when compared with all members of the Senate. According to GovTrack, 50 of Gardner’s 62…

March 4, 2020

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Letters: Memo to Durango: Act now, don’t delay!

Do not micturate it away by dithering endlessly as you did the first time the owners offered to sell their…

March 3, 2020

Editorials

Our view: Was FDR really a socialist? No.

Sanderistas are half right about the New Deal, but those were different times

March 3, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Medicare for All eliminates racial bias

The data is overwhelming: Compared to white Americans, black Americans are much more likely to be uninsured or under-insured; have…

March 3, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Mitsch Bush will represent rural America

I am an eighth-generation Coloradan from the oldest town in Colorado. The values instilled in me, passed down by my…

March 3, 2020

Editorials

Our view: When buildings talked to us

Gate of a hunting-ground, c. 1800, by Jean-Jacques Lequeudu1-i-syn Ten years ago, writing in The New York Times, John Tierney…

March 2, 2020

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Only the GOP can save you from coronavirus

I have been working closely with Sen. Tom Cotton, perhaps the best Republican scientific brain in that august and revered…

March 2, 2020

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Letters: Centura exec’s explanations patronizing

Banko said he called Tuesday’s “town hall” with Mercy staff to explain why the company had chosen to “poke the…

March 2, 2020

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Letters: What does the Weinstein verdict mean in Durango?

There is an inherent ambiguity to rape and sexual assault cases, due to, among other things, the complex dynamics of…

March 2, 2020

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Letters: Virus shows need for universal care

This is a heart-breaking statistic for the wealthiest country in the world, but becomes even more poignant with the current…

March 2, 2020