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Drivers still need to learn to share roads

One of the main reasons my family decided to spend the extra money to live “in town” in Durango was so that we could use our cars less and ride our bikes more to get to and from work. ...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Purgatory’s good character is on display

Any ski area can (or should) make its customers happy during the good times of deep and frequent snow. Real character, however, is measured when Mother Nature is not so cooperati...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Time to vote Republicans out of Senate

The Republicans of the Senate have finally crossed over to the dark side. The sellout tax reform is opposed by 70 percent of the population. The GOP senators are voting their poc...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Are high-energy drinks partly to blame?

This morning on the radio was a report of a research study by the University of Texas faculty involving high-energy drinks. Some of the chemicals in the drinks affect the neurotr...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump puts our own humanity in danger

Dec. 14 marked five years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Twenty first-grade students and 6 adults were murdered in their classrooms by Adam Lanza, a 20-year-ol...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tell Sen. Gardner to protect arctic refuge

In November, Sen. Cory Gardner voted to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because the Alaskan delegation requested it. By that logic, Coloradans could choose to extrac...

DATE: Dec 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Berry and Palmer: Tragic circumstance in a difficult time

We send our condolences to the family of Thomas Petit. Apparently politically motivated, Mr. Petit left a particularly abusive anonymous note on our windshield at the Community R...

DATE: Dec 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Joffe: Tax plan is false, deceptive and benefits few

I have upper-middle income, yet far from the one percent. The loss of Federal tax credit for state and local taxes hurts me. My taxes will go up. I don’t mind paying taxes for gov...

DATE: Dec 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Katz: Bears Ears debate and limits of rhetoric

The Bears Ears National Monument rollback, although upsetting, has reinforced a belief I hold about this ongoing land debate: While the issue stems from how stakeholders value and conceptual...

DATE: Dec 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Edwards: Trump’s actions on public lands defy public opinion

Treasured public lands like Canyons of the Ancients National Monument are part of our country’s strong natural legacy. President Trump moved against that history by cutting two million acres...

DATE: Dec 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Cochran: Veteran comments on free speech

As a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, I am vehemently opposed to NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem of the country that provides them a home where they make millions of dollars a...

DATE: Dec 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Universal health care makes fiscal sense

The Bayfield Library showed the film “Fix It: Health Care at the Tipping Point.” Lots of folks came. I learned that going to universal health care – where everyone is covered – w...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor