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Letters to the Editor

Letters: I don’t want to see any New Mexico news

Now we are subjected to New Mexico news in the Herald. What’s with that? There are so many interesting things…

December 4, 2019

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Letters: No, you can’t put homeless in Three Springs

I would love to know where Robin lives so that I can offer her neighborhood also. While Three Springs may…

December 3, 2019

Editorials

Our view: Presidents can’t withhold aid Congress appropriates. Blame Nixon.

Presidents can’t withhold aid Congress appropriates – blame Richard Nixon

December 3, 2019

Editorials

Our view: On climate, hope’s death has been exaggerated

Diringer quickly ceded that the U.N.’s Emissions Gap Report is a wake-up call. Another wake-up call. The end of snooze.…

December 2, 2019

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Letters: Restrict mountain biking to paved roads

But he didn’t go far enough. Mountain biking is totally incompatible with hiking, horseback riding, wildlife conservation and even the…

December 1, 2019

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Letters: How could you have opposed Prop CC?

Unfortunately, Colorado is now at or near the bottom for funding teachers and schools. Our state is 50th in teacher…

November 30, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Letters: This is the right use of sales tax proceeds

It is, an important project for the entire city, as Youssef indicated at the budget hearing. The social, environmental, economic…

November 30, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Push back on plastic bag myth

We defeated this unnecessary drive years ago, and every clear-thinking resident needs to push back on an unfounded myth. Yes,…

November 29, 2019

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Letters: Confiscating guns only helps Democrats

Mass shootings, in comparison, are a recent and a sadly disturbing phenomena. Confiscating the rifles from law-abiding citizens (the only…

November 29, 2019

Editorials

Our view: 500 years later, does the Conquest of Mexico matter?

the Conquest of Mexico still matter?

November 29, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Tipton and Gardner are saving us from the CORE Act

Rep. Joe Neguse, elected November, 2018, brings the bill forward this year. He represents District 2, with his office in…

November 29, 2019

Letters to the Editor

How to do universal health care in steps

States can write a clean proposal and put it directly before their voters. Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan does…

November 29, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Bag-banners are brainwashing children

They brainwash the young school-age children to hate these very useful bags as dangerous to the environment, After these children…

November 28, 2019

Editorials

Our view: Can a forgery reveal the truth?

A story of a forgery improves with age – with clues about how we see ourselves

November 28, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Speed the day when parties are whole

I am registered as an independent because I cannot respect either political party at the national level. Their priority is…

November 27, 2019

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Letters: Impeachment is just a ploy by Democrats

They donâ€™t accept the will of the people. They seem to think they are gods. They are not. Daniel RoemerDurango

November 26, 2019

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Letters: Why can’t we put the homeless in Three Springs?

As we know, there are lots of roadblocks to housing in La Plata County. The biggest factor is economic disparity.…

November 26, 2019

Editorials

Our view: This Thursday, we can thank Sarah Hale – a feminist

owe this holiday in part to an early feminist who strove against the odds

November 26, 2019

Editorials

Our view: The primary fight against Hickenlooper smolders

That it has not gone as simply as all that should be no surprise. Hick jumped in the Senate primary…

November 25, 2019

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Durango must take climate action NOW

Durango’s winter hardiness agricultural index has increased from a Zone 4 in the 1990s to a Zone 6 today and…

November 25, 2019

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Letters: Onward and upward with the CORE Act

You hopefully also know that the CORE Act passed the U.S. House on Oct. 31 with bipartisan support. Thank you,…

November 24, 2019

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Letters: Three cheers for library district passage

This has been a great example of civic involvement. The campaign to pass this district was driven by a group…

November 24, 2019

Letters to the Editor

We need more no-mountain-bike trails

As the proliferation of bikers on trails grows, these impacts (and conflicts) are growing in frequency and intensity. I would…

November 23, 2019

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Letters: Congressmen, have you no decency at long last?

McCarthy had climbed from obscurity with a campaign of bullying and innuendo that attacked people and institutions with a charge…

November 22, 2019