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McDonald’s provide jobs, higher wages

I take issue with McDonald’s being called out in the Tues., Jan. 2 article titled As owner/operator of the McDonald’s restaurants in the Four Corners area, we have hired four additional em...

DATE: Jan 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Don’t report Trump’s tweets as news

Sometimes they are ridiculous, sometimes self-contradictory. Sometimes they are dishonest, sometimes dangerously provocative. Rants of a cranky angryman, the tweets of the pres...

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

Two presidents: who’s smart, who’s dumb?

The liberally biased media, including this propaganda rag, fawned over President Obama and called him brilliant, often the smartest president ever, while it refers to President Trump as ment...

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

Disappointed that GOP added to debt

We’ve all been warned repeatedly about the dangers of the growing national debt. This warning, delivered most often by Republicans, is one with which I concur. Curre...

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

Sen. Gardner needs a new line of work

Watching Sen. Cory Gardner’s histrionics at the Capital, his outrage that Attorney General Sessions won’t continue to not enforce federal law, I immediately wondered what Republican is going...

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

Supernova sign too bright for our skies

Durango! Have you seen it? An explosion of a star right here in our fair city has occurred on the corner of 13th and Main Avenue in the Crossroads Shopping Center. Ca...

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

People of Chiapas ask for your support

We pulled up to the encampment after sundown. A series of poles supported a tarp overhead long after the rainy season passed. The community waited for us, anticipating the arriva...

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

County needs to simplify land use survey

The county has put out a survey for the public to comment on. Big problem with this survey is most won’t be able to fully understand it, or read it all if they don’t have all day...

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

Sweeper guy makes grandson’s holiday

We live in the Riverview neighborhood, and our 3-year-old grandson, Gannon, and his parents live next door to us. Gannon gets excited each week to see the trash trucks come by, b...

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

Blanding needs support, not a boycott

I must reply to the Jan. 3 Wells tells a fanciful tale of calling the Blanding Chamber of Commerce and being treated poorly by a spokesman for the organization. As a result, he calls for a...

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

Letter did not honestly address situation

Responding to the letter by Michael Berry and Berit Palmer, ( According to Durango Police Department transcripts, an officer spoke with Tom Petit in the afternoon on that fateful day. Tom e...

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

Town needs support for parents of teens

After accidentally stumbling into Durango at 19 tears old, I decided to make it my home. I was stunned by the beauty and openness of the land here. I felt safe and truly believed...

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