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Local candidates’ bad behavior annoys

Thank you to Laurie Meininger for speaking out about the misogyny and jokes demeaning women displayed at the local rodeo (“Misogyny and politicking at rodeo: Stop,” Aug. 16). Such disgusting...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Railroad and climate change to blame

Facts should help shape opinions, but opinions do not determine facts. The ignition source of the 416 Fire is not decided by how many people support or criticize the railroad. The eyewitness...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Attend Yucha rezoning hearing Tuesday

This is to encourage residents of the Animas Valley to attend the hearing on the Yucha rezone request (Project No. 2018-0022) before the Board of County Commissioners at 10 a.m. Aug. 21. The...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks for standing with other papers

In 1972, two guys with typewriters took down a corrupt White House. They were able to do that because back then people listened to their newspapers. That benchmark of the American First Amen...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Dear airport, please learn marketing

I recently read that passenger traffic is down at the airport, and today, I again heard the airport ad encouraging all of us to fly out of the airport so we could take a hike earlier in the ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Sheriff, others, thanks for fire effort

While there has been an outpouring of thanks to the firefighters who saved our community from the 416 Fire, I think our local law enforcement has been somewhat overlooked. In particular, the...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

About Trump calling Omarosa a dog

My late golden retriever would never call Trump a human. He was too smart a dog! Perhaps some of the canine species are smarter than some human species. It figures. Gif...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This column was nothing but Marxism

If there were any lingering doubts as to the leftist leaning of The Durango Herald, reprinting Michelle Goldberg’s column (“The pragmatic left, socialists included, is winning,” Aug. 13) put...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tax increases are shortsighted solutions

The city council debates yet another tax increase ballot proposal. At the same time, planners approve spending $2 million over budget for enhancement of Santa Rita Park and continued deficit...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump crows at dawn and GOP is quiet

Beginning almost daily with his first tweet, the cock crowing at dawn, Trump’s contempt for truth, his cultivation of public ignorance, his vanity, his boasting, his appeals to prejudice, hi...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Misogyny and politicking at rodeo: Stop

I recently attended the last True West Rodeo of the season and was dismayed at the active politicking of some local politicians. I was equally dismayed at the sexist and misogynistic comment...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks – we’ll get through this together

It’s been a tough summer. Wildfires, smoke, mudslides. We all know someone who has been affected in some way. As a downtown merchant I would like to thank the locals for coming down to suppo...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor