Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

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Putin touts The Russian Big Lie

Nearly two weeks have gone by where if there were referees overlooking the two sides fighting in Ukraine, Putin has the advantage by waving nuclear war in our face, with the “biggie issue” o...

DATE: Mar 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Navigable doesn’t mean trespass

Wednesday’s commentary by Mark Squillace and his interpretation of “navigable rivers” for fishermen sounds like an excerpt from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s playbook of misinformation! He sugg...

DATE: Mar 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Boebert has ‘little influence in Congress’

Our representative, Lauren Boebert, has become nothing more than a piddly heckler and a pusher of nonsensical conspiracies and lies. Not only is she an embarrassment to Colorado’s 3rd Congre...

DATE: Mar 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Boebert’s behavior an embarrassment

Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene showed themselves to be not worthy of the positions they hold in our national government on Tuesday night, when they heckled President Biden as he w...

DATE: Mar 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Pelosi disrespected Trump

The editorial published Wednesday, March 9, criticizing Lauren Boebert’s comment “Build the wall,” directed at President Biden in his State of the Union address, shows how the hypocrisy exhi...

DATE: Mar 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

‘Political gaming,’ inaction kills

Recent intelligence indicates that if Russian President Vladimir Putin elects to attack the U.S. he is most likely to use a nuclear high-altitude EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) weapon. These w...

DATE: Mar 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Not a ‘crusade’ but a ‘killing invasion’

In reference to March 4, The Durango Herald’s subhead on top of the front-page reading: “Man worries for future of separatist country; others believe Putin’s crusade is justified.” It is NOT...

DATE: Mar 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Reader says don’t print unfounded opinions

After reading the March 4 paper about the “opinions” of three women living in Durango (but formerly from Russia or Ukraine), I wondered why The Durango Herald chose to print their Putin-indu...

DATE: Mar 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Main Avenue works; let’s not change it

The City Council has hired a consulting firm to come up with a new plan for Main Avenue. They came up with four choices, all with common features: Traffic on Main is reduced to one lane in e...

DATE: Mar 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Give carbon tax revenue to FEMA

Andrew Zeiler’s letter to the editor (Feb. 26) needs some clarification. The current exorbitant inflation was caused by flooding the market with cash in a shorter period than suppliers we’re...

DATE: Mar 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

There is no going back to old Durango

Since its reconstruction in the 1990s, I’ve considered the so-called Swinging Bridge a perfect metaphor for the changes in Durango. Into the 1970s, the Swinging Bridge fairly bucked. It coul...

DATE: Mar 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Elitist attitude is ruining Durango

I could not help but write after reading “As Durango grows and becomes more expensive, is its culture changing?” (Herald, Feb. 26). Perhaps it’s not the culture but the elitist attitude that...

DATE: Mar 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor