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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

Letters: A fully loaded question for our representatives

What kind of country do you want America to be, Sen. Cory Gardner and Rep. Scott Tipton? A: A country in which the president has the right, contrary to the undisputed interests of...

DATE: Nov 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Herald editorials are fluffy and nonsensical

What is going on with the editorials in our local paper these days? Too often, the topics and content are nonsensical and lack any relevance to current issues or events. Furthermo...

DATE: Nov 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Virginia Herrera will be missed at FLC

Jack Llewellyn’s column, “ There was also an obituary for Virginia Herrera published in the Herald on the same day as Jack’s column. Virginia worked for over 20 years as a dedicated employe...

DATE: Nov 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Can we please agree to disagree respectfully?

A recent solicitation letter from Sen. Cory Gardner closed with these words: “Help me fight back against the radical liberal horde that is descending on Colorado ... to defend ... radical li...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: This Trump character just caves to dictators

Living as we do in a sweet rural paradise, 300 miles from Denver and a blessed 2,000 from D.C., one is still keenly aware of how dependent we are on the state and national scenes, for health...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Writer is flat wrong about Electoral College

A recent letter in the Durango Herald from a Denver resident touted the purported benefit of eliminating the Electoral College for the residents of Colorado (“ Without the benefit of the El...

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: This is how we end marijuana prohibition

By ballot initiative known as Amendment 64, Colorado began legal sales of marijuana on Jan. 1, 2014. As a result, the dispensary and its emblematic green cross is now refuge for the sufferin...

DATE: Nov 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter’s: Scott Tipton’s lands bill opposition is mind-bending

I am grateful for the U.S. House passage of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act, a massive public lands bill protecting about 400,000 acres in Colorado. Our District 3 would gain...

DATE: Nov 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: This council deserves our support on the budget

After reading Ellen Stein’s and Janet Wiley’s letters (“ The main argument for their agenda is we need to adhere to what’s been proposed in the past, as if those administrators had all the ...

DATE: Nov 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: What have you done for the planet today?

There’s an art installation that recently opened, called “Arcadia,” that is said to evoke our love of our natural environment while educating us about our impact on the planet. In the end, i...

DATE: Nov 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor