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Letters: Can’t we have happy Natives on signs?

I have a few questions about the controversy surrounding the “Chief” sign. What’s your prejudice or bigotry that you can’t see a happy Native American? What is racist a...

DATE: Jul 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Check out this fire-mitigation resource

During these stressful times, we have added wildfires to our daily watch. In Southwest Colorado, we have a wonderful resource, www.WildfireAdapted.org. Charlie Landsman, its La Pl...

DATE: Jul 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Forget reform and consider real justice

Under the dubious leadership of Bill Clinton, 27 years ago, 93 U.S. attorneys were fired. Over the years, our criminal justice system has been dumbed down to where in increasingly more state...

DATE: Jul 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: This is a reward and punishment society

It isn’t just Blacks, Natives, Latinos, Asians or any other culture in this country being seen as threatening, less than, ineffective, disposable, too different to accept, excluded and ignor...

DATE: Jul 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Virus could have been handled better

I don’t pretend to have many answers but it seems to me that the handling of this pandemic could have been done in a better way. Certainly, in this case, the older population and those with ...

DATE: Jul 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Fight for more equitable health care

An article in the The article goes on to add that “Although Congress mandated free coronavirus testing for uninsured persons, the order has not extended health coverage to those requiring t...

DATE: Jul 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Masks and social distancing are working

If some people find it annoying to wear masks, I’d like to point out a clear example why we do. I recently came from Santa Cruz County, Arizona, population 46,000, mostly rural wi...

DATE: Jul 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: The bears come out and get in the trash

OK, County Road 203 residents! The bears are out and into trash. Thatâ€™s right, the bears are in the trash. Please place your trash cans out on the morning ...

DATE: Jul 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Extending mask order was a good move

Thank you to City Council for its courage and common sense for extending the mandatory mask order within Durango city limits. That is a great relief to many, who feel safer going ...

DATE: Jul 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: How about the face of a real ‘chief’?

Regarding the controversy over the “Chief” sign at Toh-Atin Gallery, why not have one of the Native American artists represented by the gallery repaint its face with a portrait of a real Nat...

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Racist stereotypes need to go bye-bye

May a neighbor and My memories of The Chief diner and its iconic sign are less than happy. In the mid-1950s, my entire family came down with food poisoning after eating at there. The diner...

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Vandalism is not the American way

I am prompted to write in response to my friend, Jackson Clark, and the “Chief” sign by Toh-Atin Gallery; and by President Trump’s executive order to implement the federal law I wrote, The V...

DATE: Jul 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor