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Trust is key: Elect Allison Morrissey

Trust is the issue when selecting a new county treasurer, all right. I trust Allison Morrissey because I trust a professional accountant with professional training (she is a certified public...

Durango City Council, staff out of touch

My longtime neighbors recently got a threatening letter from our city government about their house. They have lived in a four-bedroom, two-bath home on a large lot that their kids grew up in...

Drivers paid little heed to human, bears

Some days ago, I noticed a mother bear attempting to shepherd her cubs across U.S. Highway 550 near where I live. I thought that might be dangerous and decided to try to help by carefully st...

Lieb can be trusted to steward resources

I write to encourage the women and men of La Plata County to elect Bobby Lieb as our county treasurer. I have known Bobby and his family for many years and know Bobby to be a responsible and...

Officers should enforce law, not change it

I must differ on only one point raised in Dave Mehan’s well-written letter (Herald, Aug. 29), and that is the necessity of changing laws that peace officers do not want to enforce. ...

Legion post is not on trial for assault

I guess James Pitts (Letters, Herald, Aug. 31) hasn’t been around Durango very long, or he would know that the American Legion took swift and decisive action more than a year ago when this...

DNF meeting had diversity of opinions

We find it unfortunate that The Durango Herald engaged in sensationalist journalism by displaying an internal disagreement between the board of directors, some staff and some (relatively few...

Free parking experiment tried, failed

I have been reading letters to the editor regarding parking meters. As a young patrolman for the city of Durango in the very early 1960s, I recall the same complaints were being made those m...

Hire sheriff to craft effective policy

The office of sheriff is not a department of county government. It’s an independent office through which the sheriff exercises the powers of the public trust. The sheriff alone stands direct...

Letter fosters hatred of entire people

In his Aug. 20 letter to the Herald, Bill Vana makes misleading allegations about Israel. First, he accuses Israel of committing war crimes that include methodically exterminatin...

DNF petition aims to restore integrity

Democratic institutions cannot survive without participation of their members, nor without access to open communication with members. It’s the right of Durango Natural Foods Co-op members – ...

States can’t afford to manage federal lands

In the words of America’s greatest hunter-conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt: “Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a...
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