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Letter: City’s support of nonprofits helps them do the ‘heavy lifting’

The Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado appreciates the City of Durango’s support of the nonprofit sector (Jan. 26, “City of Durango awards more than $172,000 in Durango Relief F...

DATE: Feb 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Boebert should support Paris Climate Agreement

As a constituent of Rep. Lauren Boebert, I like to follow her work. Recently she introduced the Paris Agreement Constitutional Treaty Act. It prohibits any actions being taken or...

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

Letter: Move Hillcrest Golf Course to make room for housing

In Durango’s history, there have been three key relocations of facilities that have proved invaluable to the city’s vitality: moving the airport from town to Oxford, moving Fort Lewis Colleg...

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

Letter: Windmills kill birds

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Migratory Bird Program estimates that between 140,000 and 500,000 birds die each year due to windmill turbine collisions. It stands to reason t...

DATE: Feb 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Why did my liberal friends vote for Biden-Harris?

I have several liberal Democratic friends that don’t seem stupid by any means. They would have never voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because they thought those two would be great leade...

DATE: Feb 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: We deserve better than Rep. Lauen Boebert

I am a Colorado native living in the 3rd Congressional District. I am an independent (unaffiliated) voter and have been for many decades. I believe in my country and believe she should stand...

DATE: Feb 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Carbon fee, dividend could help offset declining fossil-fuel revenues

I share Rep. Lauren Boebert’s concern about the economic impacts of declining oil and gas jobs and tax revenue in Western Colorado. Market and regulatory pressures continue to mo...

DATE: Feb 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Hunters, anglers support the CORE Act

Public land hunters and anglers know from experience that the best hunting and fishing goes hand-in-hand with healthy fish and game habitat. The Colorado Outdoor Recreation and E...

DATE: Feb 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: We’ve got enough tourists already

Rachel Brown of Visit Durango is new here and it’s her job to market this town. I get it, I really do. But what she doesn’t seem to understand is that the small-town quality of l...

DATE: Feb 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Wish we’d seen more archived pictures of Snowdown

Thanks for the Davitt M. Armstrong Oracle, Ariz. ...

DATE: Feb 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Letters proposing ban on wood burning are comical

Your State your objections to wood burning, and have your voice heard. Will the authorities put this into action, while allowing a coal-belching, smoking train to operate. I’ll bet locals’...

DATE: Feb 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Missing Snowdown and looking forward to its return

I want to thank the Herald for the tribute to Snowdown in the paper. Like many, I missed our cabin-fever reliever. I truly missed my January family of fellow Snowdown revelers an...

DATE: Feb 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor