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Letters: With a COVID-positive worker, you’re on your own

We imagine most people have read the article in the As ownership, we never received any communication from SJBPH as to what the protocol is as an employer who needs to deal with a COVID-po...

Letters: What were Durango city auditors doing?

In response to the It is surprising that it took staff members to notice the improper payments to a fictitious company rather than paid professional audit firms examining Durango’s records...

Letters: Fine the people who don’t wear masks

I was downtown and saw people walking around without masks. I backed away and gave them space as they walked by. Then two couples got out of a vehicle with Texas plates, none with masks, and...

Letters: Whites cannot have a range of views

On the “Chief” sign, or on any other matter at all, if you are white, you cannot and should not write in to explain why the “Chief” statue is not offensive and racist. If someone ...

Letters: That black fist represents communism

We have enough lessons from history, not yet destroyed or painted over, to be able to learn from them. “We the People of the United States,” begins our Constitution, symbolized by...

Letters: I love beautiful Buckley Park just as it is

My first impression of Durango was a beautiful green space close to downtown. What a special community this must be to have saved such a commercially valuable property! For 20 yea...

Letters: Time for Gardner to support CORE Act

It’s great Sen. Cory Gardner pushed to make the Land and Water Conservation Fund permanent (“ LWCF has been bipartisan since its inception over 50 years ago. For years it was Sen. Michael B...

Letters: Your lowly thistle is a Scottish hero!

A recent article in the The thistle is Scotland’s national flower and for good reason. Invasive? Hardly! Legend has it the thistle aided the Scots in repelling an invasion of Norsemen wh...

Letters: Juan de Oñate was just a fortune-seeker

On grounds not generally considered, I believe identifying Juan de Oñate in the popular sense is inappropriate anyway (“ Though Oñate sought to colonize the new territory in a sense, his as...

Letters: Groups vow to take action on ‘Chief’ sign

As a family business, we have worked with Native people as friends and partners for over 60 years. Before the “Chief” sign was first moved to Toh-Atin after we rescued him, we asked the arti...

Letters: Don’t destroy ‘Chief’ sign, celebrate it

I am a member and former chairman of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and have lived on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation for more than 70 years. During the Spanish Trails Fiesta in the 1940s...

Letters: ‘Chief’ exemplified racism of his time

Reading Jackson Clark’s defense of his gallery’s “Chief” sign, one can understand his perspective. There is no doubt that he and the Toh-Atin staff have a deep appreciation of Native America...
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