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Letters: Local businesses must take these steps

I tried to patronize several local businesses recently, however, the bare minimum of public health precautions, including social distancing and masks, were not being used, so I left. But I s...

DATE: Jun 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Memories with Cy Scarborough at Bar D

I am a little late with this, but I was thinking of Cy Scarborough and a time back in 1989. We had two graduate from Farmington High School, and dad decided we would go, as a family, to the ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: We’ll muddle through best as we can

John Lyons, in a letter, suggests that those who don’t toe the COVID-19 line identify themselves and “the hospital will then have the right to deny treatment for the virus” (“ However, our ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Guidelines are there to protect workers

In response to the article about the health guideline variances, what is the point of guidelines if we never abide by them and just get a variance? (“ As a raft guide, I would not appreciat...

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

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