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Centura a far cry from Sisters of Mercy

Thank you, Melissa Youssef and colleagues, for initiating a petition to improve health care in Durango at Centura Medical Center. I have, in fact, stopped referring to our regional hospital...

DATE: Oct 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Southwest Colorado has good air quality

Front-page headline in the Herald on Oct. 22: “Durango experienced 62 elevated ozone days in 2020.” When I read that headline, I’m like wow, that sounds really bad. After reading through th...

DATE: Oct 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Stolen flags, banner will be replaced

As the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, I was deeply disappointed and saddened the third time in the last month, when our church signage was vandalized. The fir...

DATE: Oct 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Please vote in the 9-R school board election

I’m putting on my parent hat only for this letter. How do you feel about white supremacists? What about those that celebrate the Nazi regime? Should these kind of hateful ideologies and hate...

DATE: Oct 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Antisemitism has no place at school board meeting

The crescendo of hateful, divisive and misinformed rhetoric displayed by individuals at recent 9-R school board meetings reached a new high, or rather low on Oct. 26, when an individual disp...

DATE: Oct 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trick-or-treaters should be safe

A year or two ago, I was driving into Durango on Halloween night. I was rather bemused by the universal lack of lighting on children’s costumes as I approached what appeared to be “trick-or-...

DATE: Oct 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

An old Durangoan’s 9-R ballot choices

There’s not much I recognize about Durango in this prophesied Kali Yuga daze compared to when I was kid my daughter’s age in the early ’70s. Yet? I certainly can still recognize a wolf in s...

DATE: Oct 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald treats Christians unfairly

How dare The Durango Herald vilify Christians and especially Christians who are running for school boards in the article regarding school board candidate Richard “Dean” Hill! Your actions ar...

DATE: Oct 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

U.S. public education is the gold standard

Public education in the United States is the envy of the world. It is the primary reason our country is so successful. Our system is designed to bring diverse socioeconomic groups and all r...

DATE: Oct 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Gulec should value civic, cross-circular education

In the Oct. 13 Herald, Durango School District 9-R board candidate Donna Gulec cautioned against “diverting scarce educational resources away from teaching reading, writing and math, toward ...

DATE: Oct 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Peace in the park vs. fire engines

How impractical to locate a fire station, which will also include EMT ambulances, police industrial lighting, secured fencing, the unknown noise of chainsaws and engine checks at an already ...

DATE: Oct 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Book removal at Bayfield school alarming

I’m responding to an Oct. 8 story in the Herald about the decision to remove a book from a Bayfield Middle School teacher’s classroom library. Superintendent Kevin Aten made this decision a...

DATE: Oct 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor