Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

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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

Open carry was not ‘well regulated’

Congratulations to the national retailers that will no longer welcome into their stores folks who openly brandish guns. Three of our local stores are affected by this decision and I welcome ...

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

Democrats want to take your freedoms

Democratic candidates and two of their fawning opinion television stations recently burned the midnight oil to condemn oil. Their “catastrophic climate change” statements were dec...

DATE: Oct 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Instruction in reading must continue

Mary Shinn’s reporting on the comments made recently by Colorado State Board of Education member Joyce Rankin at Needham Elementary is worthy of thoughtful consideration (“ It is disappoint...

DATE: Oct 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Guns make us safer and we have proof

Maine has just been designated as the No. 1 safest state in the nation. Vermont held this illustrious honor for several years, but they’re fine with it. Since 2015, residents of M...

DATE: Oct 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Envision print as superior in some ways

It’s too bad the Herald places minimal value on its own product. Contrast the defeatist attitude of its Sept. 30 print editorial regarding its elimination of the Monday printed ed...

DATE: Oct 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Cancel? I’m extending my subscription

At the breakfast table, we enjoyed the last “easy Monday” puzzles and laughed about saving the paper for posterity. What we did not do was slam Ballantine Communications for its decision to ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

State broadcasters do want to serve you

The article “ I am the president and CEO of the Colorado Broadcasters Association. The truth is that Colorado broadcasters are working to serve La Plata and Montezuma county residents with ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

How does Mercy expect to pull this off?

“Mercy Regional Medical Center will now be even more closely connected to the specialized services, technology and expertise of Colorado’s largest health care system,” says Catholic Health I...

DATE: Oct 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor