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Letters: This is the right use of sales tax proceeds

Thank you, Mayor Melissa Youssef and Councilors Dean Brookie and Chris Bettin, Parks and Recreation and Multimodal advisory board members and all the Durango citizens who stood up and spoke ...

DATE: Nov 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Push back on plastic bag myth

With the new hatred of technology and convenience at a fever pitch, our local plastic bag ban crowd is back! We defeated this unnecessary drive years ago, and every clear-thinking...

DATE: Nov 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Confiscating guns only helps Democrats

The AR-15 was produced originally by Colt starting in 1963. It has been a popular choice for hunting, particularly in remote areas because of its versatility, it has never been a weapon of w...

DATE: Nov 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Tipton and Gardner are saving us from the CORE Act

CORE is yet another act intended to put another 400,000 acres in wilderness designation. It has been turned down in the past due to those who believe in multiple use of public lands. ...

DATE: Nov 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

How to do universal health care in steps

Democratic candidates don’t have to die on the Medicare for all hill. There is no way on God’s green earth a Medicare for All bill will get through our divided congress. Obamacare barely pas...

DATE: Nov 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Bag-banners are brainwashing children

The bag-banners, by their labeling of plastic bags as “single-use ,” are trying to create bias and prejudice against one of the most reused products ever invented. They brainwash ...

DATE: Nov 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Speed the day when parties are whole

I believe in a bicameral political system that generally reflects opinions of the population in general. That includes a Supreme Court that is balanced, not weighted heavily to one side of c...

DATE: Nov 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Impeachment is just a ploy by Democrats

The impeachment inquiry going on is just a ploy by the Democrats to try to get more votes. They donâ€™t accept the will of the people. They seem to think they are gods....

DATE: Nov 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Why can’t we put the homeless in Three Springs?

I would like to commend the city and county for putting together the community forum on the unhoused in Durango. As we know, there are lots of roadblocks to housing in La Plata Co...

DATE: Nov 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Durango must take climate action NOW

We live just south of one of the fastest warming regions in the country, which has experienced an increase of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit on average and Colorado’s Western Slope average temperatu...

DATE: Nov 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Onward and upward with the CORE Act

I had the great privilege last week of traveling to Washington, D.C. to meet with Colorado congressional staffers and express my ardent support for the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Econom...

DATE: Nov 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Three cheers for library district passage

I would like to sincerely thank the communities of southwest La Plata County for passing ballot issue 6D, to form and fund the Southwest La Plata Library District. This has been ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor