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Make It Count boxes make me ashamed

Have you seen the Make it Count donation boxes in businesses around downtown Durango? They say, “Make it count and show that Durango cares by giving to nonprofits and not to panhandlers.” ...

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

Just how long has this been going on?

The editorials in the paper have taken a wonderful turn for the better in recent weeks. I used to expect a predictable viewpoint, a liberal and politically Democratic slant to any...

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

No one throws shade on sweet Durango

In response to Victor Straub (“ Your remarks regarding snowplow drivers in our happy, sweet little town are way out of line. Asking “Did some of the plow people have the night off so they c...

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

Hold your tongue, now, it’s a snowy town

With the snow that Durango has received, everyone needs to take a deep breath and take it easy. Don’t only slow down with your driving, but with your remarks. This is a small rural town. ...

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

Dennis Johnson was one of the greats

I just read of Dennis Johnson’s passing (“ One summer, late 1960s, I worked the Diamond Circle Theatre. Dennis would do”Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Good-bye, or ”The Cremation of Sam McGee, every ni...

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

This isn’t warming, it’s global cooling

What causes Earth’s weather? It is not the ocean currents and not CO2 – it is the sun. Don’t take my word for it, though. Google “geologic climate change” and you will find that i...

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

Licenses for undocumented immigrants

As our new legislative cycle and year begins, I hope our state lawmakers make expanding access to driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants their top priority. This would benefit all Col...

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

Socialism not the answer to anything

Is Socialism the Answer? “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries,” Winston Churchil...

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

Direct popular vote for president, yes!

In response to Peter Neds’ letter, “ Democrats are certainly not the enemy of the republic and it’s too bad Neds takes such a hateful approach to bring it up for debate. It clearly needs to...

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

Why is city doing this with our taxes?

The proposed Animas River Trail north extension is the wrong trail in the wrong place at the wrong cost at the wrong time. This trail is poorly designed and expensive. It involves...

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

This city needs to discover real ethics

I want to alert people that the city’s neighborhood meeting for comments regarding the elimination of lots size requirements for accessory dwelling units in neighborhoods EN1, 2 and 3 has be...

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

Today is finally Skip the Straw Day

In 2017, a group of middle -schoolers in Michigan created National Skip the Straw Day to fight plastic pollution. National Skip the Straw Day falls on Friday, Feb. 22 this year. ...

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