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Letters: Tourists must be tested and quarantined

I am a physician trained in clinical immunology, asthma and rheumatology. It is highly likely that Durango will experience an increase in COVID-19 infections this summer if steps are not tak...

DATE: Jun 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Sunday is Flag Day – fly stars and stripes

The American flag is a universal symbol of the enduring national unity and spirit of the American people. Whether flying atop the White House or the Capitol, outside a city hall, inside a sc...

DATE: Jun 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: It’s the Democrats to blame for all of it

Systematic racism takes place in crumbling liberal cities run by Democrats for decades. Affordable housing is put in inner cities while jobs are shipped to China through overbearing taxes an...

DATE: Jun 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Schedule not in students’ best interests

The possible fall schedule for 9-R students, two days a week in person with online learning the other three, does not seem in the best interests of students. As a grandparent who ...

DATE: Jun 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Durango businesses are doing this right

During this pandemic, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time in my living room chair, reinforcing that my chair is unbelievably uncomfortable! Knowing that my chair will likely c...

DATE: Jun 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Our history is about taking responsibility

Our country is in flux, clearly. If we’re clinging to the status quo, we’re probably privileged. Those who are deprived of basic necessities (income, justice, equality, safety, health care) ...

DATE: Jun 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I wear this mask, not for me but for you

I wear a mask in public not for me, but for you. I am educated enough to realize I may be asymptomatic and could give you the virus. I don’t live in fear of the virus; I just want...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: How about minding your own business?

It is time for people to back down, be quiet and mind their own business. Stop virtue-signaling and attacking verbally and physically people who have other world views and opinion...

DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Will you help put coronavirus behind us?

Eighty years ago, England was bombed almost nightly in German raids. The prime minister, Chamberlain, followed by Churchill, ordered all lights to be turned off at dusk so as not to leave ea...

DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I cannot abide President Donald Trump

Not in my name. I cannot be mindfully passive when the President Donald J. Trump, the president in name only, lies and accuses a critic of murder, with absolutely no evidence, and maliciousl...

DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Having to wear a mask is not ‘bondage’

I had to write regarding Mr. Reynolds’ choice of adjective to describe the temporary mandatory mask decision (“ Though not foolproof, wearing masks properly is a proven method to be help ea...

DATE: Jun 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: This is what decent human beings do

In the now-forgotten days before the plague, I would have chuckled at the three letters published in the Fortunately, a piece circulating recently in the media can do the job better. So, s...

DATE: Jun 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor