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DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

LPEA board oversteps mission

In response to the letter from Kathleen Adams (May 7, “Vote Ted Compton for LPEA Board): In all fairness to Ted Compton, why is he focused on breaking the contract with Tri-State Generation,...

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Vote for incumbent Tim Wheeler for LPEA

Tim Wheeler puts his money where his mouth is. When he owned the Durango Coffee Company, in his support of KSUT he once offered a free bag of coffee every month for a year to anyone who cont...

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Outgoing LPEA director endorses Compton

Thank you, Durango, for electing me to three terms on the La Plata Electric Association board. After serving nine years, I believe that is long enough, and I am happy with the great LPEA st...

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Purser’s claims about LPEA are inaccurate

As a current La Plata Electric Association board member, it is important to call out the factual inaccuracies in John Purser’s candidate statement. He stated, “There is now a push to expand ...

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Compton is a wise collaborator for LPEA

I have had the indescribable and unique experience of getting to know Ted Compton as his one and only kid. For 20 years now, my family and I have seen each other through thick and thin, so ...

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Elect Ted Compton to LPEA board

Elect Ted Compton for La Plata Electric Association director. Our electric cooperative delivers essential energy to our homes, communities and workplaces. Our systems that provide food, wat...

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Compton is prepared for LPEA’s complex future

We are writing in support of Ted Compton as a candidate for La Plata Electric Association Board of Directors. Granted, we are his parents, but we truly believe he is very well qualified to s...

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Leadership is adrift in pandemic mania

The American poet T.S. Eliot once wrote, “What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning.” But the pandemic overseers of Durango do not subscribe to s...

DATE: May 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Is D&SNG putting profits before people?

It has occurred to me that in this country, big business still has the financial resources to do whatever they want to make a profit. In a previous letter, I objected to D&SNG Railroad over...

DATE: May 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Immigrants are essential to our care structure, economy

Immigrants have played a critical role throughout the pandemic in our community. Across the country, nearly 23 million immigrants have been putting their lives on the line in essential roles...

DATE: May 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Both parties prone to suppression

Thank you to classmates and friends, Herb Bowman and Gunnar Conrad, for their thoughtful replies to my guest column in The Durango Herald and The Denver Post. I asserted (with examples) that...

DATE: May 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor