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Letters: See? Reusable bags spread disease.

Several years ago, we were shown that the use of reusable shopping bags was a major cause of spreading diseases, including E. coli, flu, and other, even nastier, ones. The banners...

DATE: Apr 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Forest Service dubious on Valle Seco land exchange

If I may, I would like to use a phrase that seems to have been lost to the ages. “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” It came to mind after I read the guest editorial by Kara Chadwick, the supervisor of...

DATE: Apr 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Blame Trump for late start fighting virus

It appears to me that we have a president who simply does not view the loss of human life as many of us do. Following the Parkland school shooting, President Trump met with surviv...

DATE: Apr 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Time to kill 32nd Street bridge project

Given the current economic situation and the uncertainty of the long-term impact of the coronavirus on our community, I believe it would be extremely irresponsible for city of Durango offici...

DATE: Apr 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Pandemic is being used to divide us

To encourage neighbors – in La Plata County, all are neighbors – to report to the local public health authorities violations of the order to socially distance, close businesses that are deem...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Herald and liberal media skew virus coverage

The Chinese government misled, mishandled and miscommunicated the actual facts and information about the occurrence of the coronavirus infection. It’s still distorting the data about deaths ...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Republicans don’t care about the public

What could be crazier than voting for a business fraud, charity fraud, a billionaire? With several bankruptcies in the casino biz, of all things! A serial philanderer gravitating ...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Colorado lambs have a place elsewhere

Thank you so much for Jonathan Romeo’s excellent article on sheep ranching in the Weminuche Wilderness (“ The goal of stabilization and increase of small bands of our rare native species of...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Loving hands stitch needed Mercy gowns

Our local quilt store put out a call for people to sew gowns for the nurses of Mercy hospital. Our Mercy was in need of protective gowns for their nurses. Quilters arrived at the ...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Medicare for All needed more than ever

The damage of the COVID-19 pandemic to the American medical and economic health is a glaring example of the fragmented, chaotic nature of our free enterprise medical system. Our system is de...

DATE: Apr 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Innuendo in your headline unacceptable

I’m no fan of the president, but really, You slapped it on the article as if anyone – including Dr. Anthony Fauci – could give a date to “have fans in stadiums.” President Trump...

DATE: Apr 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: We’re not taking prevention seriously

My daughter is a doctor at the VA in Chicago, one of the epicenters for the virus. What concerns me is that residents of Bayfield and Durango are going out like it’s a normal day. ...

DATE: Apr 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor