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Letter: Not so fast with all those vaccines

In response to “ Currently, over 50% of children experience chronic disease. Have the interactions of this many vaccinations ever been tested together? Even the flu shot is questionable, es...

DATE: Sep 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Keep Purple Cliffs homeless site open

With unexpected pleasure, I visited and toured the Purple Cliffs community recently. It is largely a self-governing community. It is kept reasonably clean. It is on public land usable for no...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Quit wasting money on homeless camps

OK, so let me get this right: $95,000 to build a homeless camp near the cemetery, $150,000 to manage it. Add in the almost-guaranteed 20% over budget and we will round off at $300,000 to hou...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Charly Minkler is someone you want

I am voting for Charly Minkler for La Plata County Commissioner. He knows our county from Ignacio to Bayfield to Durango, and in between. He’s a rancher and a businessman who knows the ups a...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Give teachers money from bridge project

I commend Beth Jones for reminding the city that there are more important things to invest in (Letters: “ I have witnessed civic projects that were nothing more than legacy projects, propo...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: RBG’s death is a good time to reflect

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a moment for reflection. Women of my generation and subsequent generations have the rights we do in part due to her. Her friendship with Anton...

DATE: Sep 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I like Marsha for county commission

As a nurse, I can’t think of a more important skill than listening. Marsha Porter-Norton has that skill in spades. Marsha has demonstrated the skill to listen and then distill the important ...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Why not teach classes on cellphones?

Not everyone has access to the internet, but there are billions of cellphones – more than the entire population of the world. If we can send off rovers to film Mars, then why not ...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Minkler is not partisan – and that’s good

As a longtime resident of Bayfield and former business owner, I have known Charly Minkler for over 27 years. My wife and I were customers of his previous building business. We kno...

DATE: Sep 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Editorial on BLM shrine is ‘problematic’

The BLM is a response to state-sanctioned violence and racism, conceived of as a way to connect Black people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in...

DATE: Sep 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: The old leftist hatreds are reawakening

Regarding your editorial, “ If you are told directly that you worship to hate or harm specific groups, it becomes a part of your religion. That’s why the Muslim countries surrounding Israel...

DATE: Sep 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Have you seen the out-of-state plates?

It became obvious fairly early in the summer that we were being inundated with out-of-state visitors – why, at that point, did they not ramp up observation and overseeing of the backcountry?...

DATE: Sep 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor