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Letters: Council should leave the healthy alone

Look at today’s San Juan Basin Public Health numbers and assume the county population is 60,000: 72 positive tests is one per 833 people. Ten hospitalized is one per 6,000 people. Zero death...

DATE: May 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Rules counter our constitutional rights

In the wake of our bout with COVID-19, stores and businesses are opening again. And issues exist that must be addressed. The Constitution guarantees all Americans the right to liv...

DATE: May 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Wearing a mask is effective and patriotic

Cloth masks don’t filter the virus. They filter your spit, which floats in aerosolized micro-globules that can travel 6 to 27 feet from your mouth when you speak. Normal speech re...

DATE: May 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Keep taxpayers in urban renewal loop

Urban renewal plans provide hope for the future (“ They are also vulnerable to corruption, especially if sweetheart deals are made with out-of-state bidders without any skin in the game. An...

DATE: May 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Coloradans don’t want an abortion ban

Right now, Coloradans are worried about their jobs, their families and their futures. During the COVID-19 pandemic, living our state values and being able to make the best health care decisi...

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

Letters: Problem at Oxbow will only get worse

In response to the This problem at Oxbow will not become a “distant memory,” as she says. It will get worse. There will not be adequate parking when this project is finished, especially wh...

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

Letters: The Greatest Generation showed the way

I am eternally grateful to the Americans of the World War II era, the Greatest Generation. They did not protest giving up their rights to travel afar because of gas rationing. ...

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

Letters: The lockdown protesters are dangerous

British essayist and moralist Samuel Johnson in 1775 famously asserted that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” His statement has echoed down through the centuries to expose th...

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

Letters: Mask-wearing shows unwarranted panic

People in Durango have lost their sense of perspective on this virus. The risk of death for anyone under the age of 60 and in good health is exceedingly low. Despite th...

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

Letters: Could we get a city or county attorney?

In reading your editorial “ Of course, the city or county attorney would not be able to subpoena any personal information on these patients. But he could at least be able to get numbers. I ...

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

Letters: Our constitutional rights are violated

Are we going to continue to have our constitutional rights violated by our elected officials? Are we going to continue to agree to a lockdown without the right to support ourselves or to tra...

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

Letters: Stop the shaming about mask-wearing

Enough. I am growing weary of all the mean-spirited letters to the editor that attempt to shame those in our community who don’t wear masks. They have been called cowards, evil and rude, and...

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