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Global warming is about taxing industries

While alarmists claim 97 percent of climatologists feel man is a major contributor to climate disruption, they neglect to say the poll surveyed only scientists working for the government or ...

Sheriff should be able to handle scheduling

At the sheriff candidates debate recently, Sheriff Duke Schirard said his department receives the majority of the county tax money. In 2010, while running for re-election, Schirard had a bud...

Keep farmers market vendors varied

The Durango Farmers Market has been a real asset to Durango, but it appears that some of the rules set by the board are not in the best interests of vendors or the community. The last two ma...

Dividers create snow problem

Now that we have four blocks of brand-new, high, cement dividers, What is CDOT going to do with snow? It looks like those four blocks will be one lane each way again. Eleanor Mill...

Past time to demand rational gun control

Elliot Rodger, 22, killed six university students and wounded seven others May 23 in Santa Barbara, California. As reported in The New York Times, the grief-stricken father of Chr...

Give veterans a choice for health care

A simple solution to the Veterans Administration turmoil. Even though I am a vet, I have never used the VA system – first, because I am not a combat veteran, and second, I have a...

Sewer customers paid for lavish party

City sewer customers should know that they are now lucky to be paying $42.75, not $62.57, for sewer privileges, while city residents pay $16.43. I guess they had to get the money somewhere t...

Help stop modern slave trade

There are many problems in the world today. Poverty, hunger and thirst are just a few. But what about the lesser-known issues? What about the people who are not in control of themselves? Wha...

All should know the rules for service dogs

As a former resident of Durango and someone who has been training service dogs for 20 years, I feel I am in a unique situation to comment on your story, “Inn tells family with service dog to...

Sheriff Duke Schirard right to drop ICE holds

I am writing to thank Sheriff Duke Schirard and local law enforcement for taking action and making the firm decision to stop honoring 48-hour Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds in La ...

Some climate change facts are indisputable

The deck on a May 7 Associated Press story, which ran in the Herald, about global warming reads, “Rising temperatures affecting Americans’ lives, study says.” It certainly will affect our li...

Disarmed Californians could not stop killer

Californians have been so effectively disarmed – through possibly well-meaning but terribly misguided intentions – that a man can kill six people involving nine crime scenes, and no one was ...
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