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Presidential power must be checked now

Can the president pardon himself or others, to free himself from criminal investigation? Can the president be compelled to testify before a grand jury? Can a sitting president be criminally ...

I supported GOP for 50 years. No more.

Conservatives, where is your outrage? If any previous president had shunned our allies and cozied up to our enemies, you’d have shouted “Treason.” If he’d constantly insulted our federal law...

Trump hasn’t even read his own books

Humans learn from mistakes by suffering natural consequences for poor decisions. American farmers, who overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, are beginning to suffer the consequence of th...

Some in Congress are just plain rude

I just watched over three hours of the congressional “interview” of Peter Strzok and I am appalled at the display of open hostility, all too frequent rudeness, unprofessional and occasionall...

Train took great care of us in mudslide

My family would like to express our gratitude to the crew, staff and first responders who kindly and efficiently navigated the passengers on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad tra...

Tell Tipton that climate change hurts us

I am a farmer on Florida Mesa and all the hay crops are less than half this year. Because of our historical drought conditions and the large wildfires there has been lots of talk about the c...

President Trump is committing treason

The definition of treason is to consciously and purposely work to aid the enemies of one’s country. By this definition, President Trump is clearly committing ongoing acts of treason by denyi...

On Trump, the red light is blinking

What would cause our president to regard Vladimir Putin’s testimony to be more reliable than that of the careful analysis of all of his own intelligence agencies? Donald Trump is not stupid....

Train operators need to reassure us

The 416 Fire has been personal. We were on pre-evacuation for three weeks and thinking our home may burn down for a month. We packed up our most valuable belongings; our memories and cherish...

Why we don’t let journalists name things

Numbers or Names? The Durango Herald editorial on fire naming (July 10) would have me believe that nothing of significance can be identified by a number. Accordingly, there must be no signif...

The trains came home tonight; I cried

The trains came home tonight. I stood still, watched, listened and cried tears of sadness and tears of joy. We probably wouldn’t be here if not for that train before us. The fo...

Stop blaming the train for the 416 Fire

It’s difficult to read letters vilifying the D&SNG train (or Mr. Harper) for possibly being the cause of the 416 Fire. It’s a character flaw when you have the compulsive need to assign blame...
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