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Letters: Wash your hands, fight for health care

Before this pandemic is over, nearly a third of Americans could lose their jobs and their health insurance. What choices does that leave them? One option is COBRA, whereby laid of...

Letters: Now more than ever, we must shop local

Thank you to the citizens who are staying at home, wearing masks and being considerate of the health of all of our fellow citizens. I am saddened by the closing of three of my fav...

Letters: Let’s ease up on the mask judgments

I opened the If I choose to wear a yellow shirt today, it doesn’t impact you. Why do you care if I’m wearing a mask? I am an unapologetic mask wearer. I don’t wear it for me. I ...

Letters: Council should leave the healthy alone

Look at today’s San Juan Basin Public Health numbers and assume the county population is 60,000: 72 positive tests is one per 833 people. Ten hospitalized is one per 6,000 people. Zero death...

Letters: Rules counter our constitutional rights

In the wake of our bout with COVID-19, stores and businesses are opening again. And issues exist that must be addressed. The Constitution guarantees all Americans the right to liv...

Letters: Wearing a mask is effective and patriotic

Cloth masks don’t filter the virus. They filter your spit, which floats in aerosolized micro-globules that can travel 6 to 27 feet from your mouth when you speak. Normal speech re...

Letters: Keep taxpayers in urban renewal loop

Urban renewal plans provide hope for the future (“ They are also vulnerable to corruption, especially if sweetheart deals are made with out-of-state bidders without any skin in the game. An...

Letters: Coloradans don’t want an abortion ban

Right now, Coloradans are worried about their jobs, their families and their futures. During the COVID-19 pandemic, living our state values and being able to make the best health care decisi...

Letters: Problem at Oxbow will only get worse

In response to the This problem at Oxbow will not become a “distant memory,” as she says. It will get worse. There will not be adequate parking when this project is finished, especially wh...

Letters: The Greatest Generation showed the way

I am eternally grateful to the Americans of the World War II era, the Greatest Generation. They did not protest giving up their rights to travel afar because of gas rationing. ...

Letters: The lockdown protesters are dangerous

British essayist and moralist Samuel Johnson in 1775 famously asserted that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” His statement has echoed down through the centuries to expose th...

Letters: Mask-wearing shows unwarranted panic

People in Durango have lost their sense of perspective on this virus. The risk of death for anyone under the age of 60 and in good health is exceedingly low. Despite th...
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