Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

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Setting the record straight on transparency

The recent editorial, “Our View: Transparency: ‘Behind closed doors’ not uncommon, or illegal, but the public deserves to know of settlements,” (Herald, July 6) misrepresents how Durango Sch...

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Colorado needs to get rid of TABOR

During the 33 years since TABOR was enacted, the federal government has paid for a lot of things that Colorado needs: Medicare, Medicaid, wildland firefighting, the National Weather Service,...

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Clyde and Paulette Church made our community better

I am sure Clyde and Paulette Church will retire to enjoying their time with each other. Many in La Plata County and Durango may not know this husband and wife team have elevated the bar of w...

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Poem to the Editor: The Ice House

In the old days, before so many had refrigerators, there were what were called ice houses. In the summer of 1960, we visited one in Texas, on the way to Lake Texoma. So we today who learned...

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Rep. Hurd, you voted against your district

Nothing says I am afraid to hear from my constituents like having no staff in your Durango office. I dropped by to express my concerns regarding the “BBB” and there was no one there and no o...

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Affordable power matters to all local businesses

Your recent coverage of the LPEA election and James Coleman’s donations (Herald, June 29) leaves the misleading impression that Purgatory Resort received special treatment on electric rates....

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

What keeps me from renewing my subscription

Besides wanting to be better informed about local Durango happenings, I would like to support the local newspaper as a subscriber. However, I am turned off by the significant political bias....

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

No soul, no humanity, no decency, no empathy

The abomination that is the Florida detention center is a clear misnomer. Alligator Alcatraz? The prisoners of Alcatraz were give due process; they had the right to counsel and a trial by ju...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

America is being hollowed out from the inside

In January, Donald Trump declared war – not on a foreign adversary, but on the institutions that make American democracy work. With the stroke of a pen, he laid off tens of thousands of neut...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Big bill a big toll on rural health care

With all the confusion and unverified claims flying around the so-called “Big, Wonderful Bill,” as President Donald Trump calls it, I’m hoping Hope Scheppelman or someone from the La Plata C...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Adapting to a New World order

Recently, I was pic-pocketed by a long time Durango medicated schizophrenic helping me put my back pack on – with groceries and, of course, wallet. She and others are soon going to face no m...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor