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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

We need more no-mountain-bike trails

Kudos to the Bureau of Land Management for beginning to address the negative impacts of mountain biking on our trails (“ As the proliferation of bikers on trails grows, these impacts (and c...

DATE: Nov 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Congressmen, have you no decency at long last?

Sixty five years ago an American demagogue, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, reached the peak of his power. McCarthy had climbed from obscurity with a campaign of bullying and innuendo that ...

DATE: Nov 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Is Tipton seeing what I’m seeing?

Rep. Scott Tipton once again proves himself a Trump sycophant, recreant and republican yes-man (“ In the article, he says Ambassador William Taylor reporting what his aide overheard in a ph...

DATE: Nov 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Your cat has one word for you – “plastics”

It is happening in more and more cities, states and countries. What is happening is a ban on single-use plastic bags. Nothing inspires more fear in the hearts of feline parents al...

DATE: Nov 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: These bridges are your money well spent

Compliments to Councilors Dean Brookie, Chris Bettin and Mayor Melissa Youssef for protecting pedestrians with funding the bridges across the river behind north City Market and the overpass ...

DATE: Nov 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Your bias on impeachment is showing

If Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was shocked by being reassigned, she must have refused to read cables, or slept through every staff briefing and ignored news coverage after every presidentia...

DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: the ban-bags busybodies are back

The busybody bag banners are back, and probably no smarter than they were a few years ago. Sneakier? Probably! More deceitful? Most definitely! But not smart...

DATE: Nov 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Come join our climate strike

Our planet is literally on fire. Every time that I check the news, I see Australia burning, the EPA limiting science, species going extinct, and people dying as a result of the climate crisi...

DATE: Nov 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: We soldiered on despite TABOR’s talons

Thank you, Durango, for allowing me to serve on the 9-R school board. It was tremendously rewarding and enriching community service. The board, under Dan Snowberger’s leadership a...

DATE: Nov 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: City Council escapes a tainted past

Don Thomas’ recent letter, “ Council is diligently scrutinizing decisions made in the past as to how our tax money should be spent in the future. Many of the decisions made in th...

DATE: Nov 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor