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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

Letters: Don’t let this area reopen without tests

I see governors getting in line to open states completely and sooner rather than later. As of April 10, La Plata County and Archuleta County had performed less than 200 tests with...

DATE: Apr 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Now’s the time to rescue our restaurants

In the first 22 days of March, the restaurant industry in the US lost $25 billion in sales and over three million jobs. Roughly 30,000 restaurants have already closed for good acr...

DATE: Apr 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I am very disappointed with our Walmart

I had to make a trip to the Durango Walmart. Only about one out of 20 customers were wearing face masks, but most were amiably physical-distancing. But while one customer walked down an aisl...

DATE: Apr 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Letter writer misunderstands LPEA

Regarding Kayla Patterson’s letter about LPEA, “ She compares farm co-ops to LPEA. Farm co-ops are venerable businesses but bear little resemblance to LPEA, which provides essential electri...

DATE: Apr 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Thanks for seeing Albanians’ generosity

We would like to thank you for the very nice editorial in Wednesday’s paper regarding Albania and the help they have sent Italy during this pandemic (“ Our daughter joined the Peace Corps i...

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

Letters: Durango should let us into Nighthorse

I live right on the New Mexico and Colorado state line, so my family and I do all of our recreational activities in Durango. On the Durangogov.org website, I see residents are enc...

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

Letters: Trust Unger and science for LPEA board

Trust science. Vote for Guinn Unger for the LPEA board. Many believe that renewable energy is available only if the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. Wrong, both solar and wi...

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

Letters: Mike Smedley’s no model citizen himself

I reside in New Mexico and own property in Colorado. I take great offense to Mike Smedley’s insults and bullying comments which he targeted toward New Mexicans as “Clueless, clods, yellow-be...

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

Letters: Maybe city should make us wear masks

Why are more people not wearing face masks? Especially in grocery stores, where it seems that most of the employees are not wearing masks and they are the ones who come in constan...

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

Letters: Which idiots opened the golf courses?

So what idiot committee decided opening the golf courses in Durango was a good idea? Honestly, our family walked the river trail Saturday and a group of older women refused to soc...

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