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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...

Celebrate wilderness, preserve our treasures

Thank you for your recent editorial on the value of wilderness and the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act (Herald, Aug. 28). You are right, wilderness is part of our national heritage an...

Amendment 68 has scary language

Amendment 68 is a fraud. A casino in Rhode Island is trying to save its failing casino at the cost of Colorado’s constitutional guidelines. The language in the amendment proposes to amend ou...

Duke Schirard part of sheriffs’ movement

On the right side of the road, heading west on Highway 160 within city limits, there is a “Duke Schirard for Sheriff” sign. Perhaps the city ordinance governing election signs is just one mo...

City dithering has cost marijuana revenue

Our City Council has over-thought marijuana regulations to the point that we probably lost more revenue than that of the half-percent tax-extension request for Parks and Recreation projects....

Center fracking debate on facts

It is too bad that some folks have been led to believe that hydraulic fracturing is new or even an unsafe process. While I had some concerns when we first started hearing more about fracking...
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