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Letters: Crisis can bring out worst in people, too

Since the advent of the coronavirus, two men in Durango broke their contract with an elderly woman by demanding that she vacate the premises. They sent intimidating emails stating that they ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Turner and Minkler need your support

With all that is going on in our world right now, we have an important local election of La Plata County commissioners this November. It is exciting to have two locals, Jack Turne...

DATE: Apr 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: It’s true, whether or not you believe it

“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press,” Samuel Adams said. I am amused by letters accus...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I think the Herald is disgusting now

It’s disgusting and cynical the way the Your paper made a promise to make all relevant information about the coronavirus in our community available free of charge at a time when so many of...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: LPEA candidates augur a rosy future

The right choice in the LPEA election could mean many more jobs in La Plata County in the future. I am writing to endorse Guinn Unger, Rachel Landis and Doug Fults for the LPEA bo...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Bullet or golf ball, it’s your responsibility

Virtually all sentient beings know that there has been a run on toilet paper even though there is no pervasive evidence that the novel coronavirus is accompanied by diarrhea. Those same bein...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Shame on manager, mask-less workers

We just shopped at a local grocery store and noticed that there are now employees not wearing masks or gloves who previously were. We noticed people working in the produce section and behind...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Thanks to Strater for its generosity now

City Councilor Barbara Noseworthy, working with Durango’s Compañeros, asked for help getting food and other supplies for people who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic and had no resourc...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Let us work out on tracks, 9-R, wouldya?

Durango 9-R school district has recently decided to close down all of their tracks and athletic facilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to “prevent the spread” of the virus....

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Donald Trump is no Abraham Lincoln

Socialists have to remind us of their importance and expertise to justify their power. A socialist exclaims: “We have it totally under control ... It’s going to be just fine.” Or: “Every one...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: The time has come to sacrifice beards

With medical experts discussing the low-tech features of masks to avoid taking in and transmitting the coronavirus via the “atomization” process of sneezing and coughing, I began to wonder i...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Criticism of LPEA board is in bad faith

I commend the LPEA board of directors for their quick action to support the community. The delay of a rate increase and the allocation of community support funds were possible because they h...

DATE: Apr 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor