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Water users benefit from Proposition DD

I support Proposition DD on the November ballot, which would legalize sports betting at existing casinos in Colorado (not including tribal casinos) and impose a tax on the betting proceeds. ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Please take reusable bags to the store

It’s fairly clear we will always have plastic in today’s world. But maybe we should be asking ourselves how badly we need that single-use bag or container. The visible trash and i...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Fight climate change, stop reproducing

The greatest impact individuals can have in fighting climate change is choosing not to reproduce. A carbon-footprint study of people in the wealthier nations of North America, Eur...

DATE: Oct 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Don’t let Legislature fool you on Prop CC

In your upcoming mail ballot, you will be asked to give the state of Colorado a blank check. Don’t be tricked into believing the initial language, “without raising taxes ...” Prop...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

My humps, my humps, my lovely speedersâ€™ bumps

When I was living in Westport, Connecticut, during the 1990s, many roads feeding into the main Post Road were paved-over, 200-year-old cow trails. These roads were narrow and winding as they...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Durango: Bring back marvelous parades

In the past, there were parade entrants that packed the south side of East 3rd Avenue with numerous trailers of decked-out horses and riders, outfitters with their string of mules, dozens of...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This park is a disaster waiting to happen

I was out at Santa Rita Park with my young son and while playing I noticed something terrifying. There was traffic buzzing by at 50 mph and this park has absolutely no traffic bar...

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This whole homeless camp is ludicrous

Regarding the cleanup for the homeless camp: Really? This is ridiculous! It will be trashed and nasty in less than a month. And a homeless camp? Really? The idea of thi...

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Partisan Herald wants to negate votes

The Herald’s Oct. 4 editorial (“ “Appearing to seek”? The president should be impeached not because he did something (show us in the transcript where), but because he “appeared” to do somet...

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: President is a communist sympathizer

So, let me get this straight. It’s OK for the president of the United States to encourage foreign governments, including a Communist dictatorship, to interfere in our national elections by d...

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Base fluoride policy on science, please

Jim Forleo, in a recent letter, proposes, once again, to end all public water fluoridation in Durango based on a small study recently reported in the Journal of the American Medical Associat...

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This is no time to bring more wolves

In the last several weeks, there have been at least two wild animal-human confrontations in Colorado, resulting in serious injuries to a 9-year-old boy in one case. In May this ye...

DATE: Oct 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor