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Tipton and Gardner are shamefully silent

President Trump’s authoritarian and autocratic tendencies, long obvious, are only becoming more clear. He wants to pick economic winners – coal and steel, for instance – by using ill-conside...

DATE: Sep 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Medicaid is a boon that must be saved

When most people think of Medicaid, their first thoughts are of medical insurance for those with low income or the unemployed. In a lot of circumstances, though, Medicaid is much more than t...

DATE: Sep 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

There’s a deadly downside to milkweed

In the Durango Herald Aug. 31 there was an article promoting the benefits of growing milkweed to be food for butterflies (“Citizen scientists enlisted to research monarch butterfly mystery”)...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Sheriff inconsistent on law enforcement

On Aug. 16, 2014, Sean Smith sent the Durango Gun Club a letter. In this letter, he stated: “With that said, the sheriff’s job is to enforce laws! So, until the court or the Legislature make...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We’re at out best with Unger for senate

Well, I’ve made up my mind. And just in time, too, because the election is only about two months away. I’m going to give Guinn Unger, Democratic candidate for the Colorado State Senate, my v...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Scofflaws posting flyers and parking

To the person who distributed a flyer on Saturday morning for a meeting: You did not do your cause any favors by irritating homeowners. Whoever posted the flyer trespassed on priv...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The truth shall shed its light on thee

As an attorney for numerous years and a confidante to many, I feel due regard for the importance of always siding with the truth. I know how to seek a solution to disputes, squabbles, and th...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks for coming to Secret Garden

The Durango Arts Center’s staff and board wish to express our tremendous gratitude to all who attended the Aug. 29 concert in the Rochester Hotel’s luscious Secret Garden! Sponsor...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Durango doesn’t need you or your big truck

I find myself befuddled by the lead article in the weekend Herald Opinion section authored by Larry Kerr from Farmington, which is basically a rant engendered by a $25 parking ticket Mr. Ker...

DATE: Sep 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Mainstream news is not propaganda

In a letter to the Herald (“One giant, coordinated primal whine,” Aug. 23), Virgil R. Pulliam recommends that readers “Cross check Washington Post and New York Times articles and the daily r...

DATE: Sep 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

It happened to me and I left Durango

I had a similar experience to the folks in “When I saw the yellow envelope, I saw red” (Aug. 24). I was parked in the last spot on the west side of Main Avenue near the intersection of 11th ...

DATE: Sep 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Dear Sen. McCain, you will be missed

Senator McCain, I was never a member of your political party, I often disagreed with your ideas and I would not have voted for you as president. However, I do admire your character and the m...

DATE: Sep 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor