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Letters: Durangoans are being ripped off by gas prices

I am wondering why we in Southwest Colorado live in a region immune to market forces. I see that the price of oil has dropped by over half, yet the price of gasoline in Durango ha...

Letters: You can find the best virus advice on the internet

School closings, sports event cancellations, food hoarding. We live in a new coronavirus-induced world. Yet some personal health facts remain unchanged. The Centers for Disease Co...

Letters: Coloradans get gouged on gas prices

Crude oil has been as high as $60 per barrel not long ago. Now it is a little over $20. But gasoline prices have not come down here much since then. In Oklahoma City no...

Letters: Overreaching pandemic powers cut our freedoms

Isn’t it curious the panic and fear-mongering coming from the media “encouraging” people to practice “social distancing,” stay home, don’t travel, stay away from friends and neighbors, delib...

Letters: Empathy is a given for all but Trump

I know three terrific cognitive scientists who study empathy in newborn primates (Frans deWaal), in newborn children (Andy Melzoff), or in both (Mike Tomasello). All three have been reportin...

Letters: We should donate to local businesses now

This town and country has not seen anything quite like what is happening now. My hope is that we can quickly move to donate money for all the local business owners and employees. ...

Letters: Now’s the time for action on rural internet

Big thanks and kudos to the director and staff at Ignacio Community Library for a great response to the health crisis. The morning of March 16 it announced the library would close...

Letters: Cyclists, don’t be rude, follow road rules

I have lived in Southwest Colorado for 35 years. I ride a road bike. I do understand why we ride, exercise, compete, etc. I experience so many riders running stop signs...

Letters: Show your community love – stay home

I am a public health social scientist at Fort Lewis College. I study and teach about big picture social issues such as how racism, poverty, settler colonialism and gender inequality put vuln...

Letters: I am writing to ask you to overreact

I’m a Colorado man born right here in Durango. From my understanding, we have zero confirmed cases of COVID-19 here in the southwestern portion of Colorado? It’s difficult to determine the a...

Letters: You’re too easy on far-left politicians

About your editorial concerning Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca’s comments (“ “Our politics and our pandemic have had some unfortunate overlap,” you wrote, “not least of which is Dem...

Letters: Editorial is cheap, lazy and defamatory

Even by recent standards, the Herald’s March 12 editorial (“ It is a screed that defames both former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. By the way, the former vice president ...
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