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Our county planners are woefully inept

It is stunning, absolutely shocking, to fully face the reality that our county commissioners and county planning dept. are so woefully inept concerning the development of county codes. ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

See film to learn more about climate

I enjoyed my sixth day of skiing recently at Purgatory. Despite the lack of natural snowfall, they have made enough man-made snow to create a fantastic skiing experience. Skiing ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Farmers know ‘BS’ when they smell it

After reviewing over 100 pages of the commissioners’ code proposal (Module 1), I wrote to each commissioner and attended the Jan. 16 meeting at the fairgrounds (Herald, Jan. 17). There were ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Fond memories of Snowdown and Terry

I had the privilege of being in the Follies from 1987-91 doing a send-up of Chevy Chase doing the Snowdown News: “Sno-News is Good News!” Terry Fiedler, Linda Mannix and some ot...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Meeting article omitted important facts

I was one of the more than 1,000 people attending the Tuesday night planning meeting at the fairgrounds. The Durango Herald failed to mention, in its Jan. 17 article about this me...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Look behind Trump’s statements for facts

When Donald Trump recently tweeted that 3 out of 4 international terrorism-related convictions in U.S. Courts since Sept. 11, 2001, were of foreign-born individuals (apparently in support of...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Time for residents to clean up their act

Let’s get real La Plata County: We have a junk problem. I’m sick and tired of all the junk cars, machinery junk, and unused trailers dotting the landscape of our beautiful county...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Call on Congress to censure the president

It’s past time for Congress to censure President Trump. This is not a partisan issue. Without this action, Congress becomes complicit in the denigration of social standards we ex...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We have a lack of leadership outbreak

Dear loved ones (all people): In light of what seems to be a meltdown of too many of our highly-educated government leaders, business titans and some flawed religious leaders, I ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

New code should not hinder new business

La Plata County needs a new land use code – we’ve needed this for the last 20 years. However, let’s make sure that it’s the right code. The city of Durango adopted a new land use...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

It’s time to recognize our common roots

As members of Indivisible Durango’s Immigration Committee, we wish to express our profound dismay and revulsion that our president would characterize people from Haiti and the continent of A...

DATE: Jan 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Mannix: True credit goes to Fiedler, volunteers

It was a delight and surprise to be selected Citizen of the Year by the Durango Chamber of Commerce. My thanks go out to Jack Lewellyn, Rita Simon, the members of the Chamber and so many mor...

DATE: Jan 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor