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Check your voter registration status now

In July, a request was made to each state’s secretary of state by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to provide publicly available voter data – including names, addre...

DATE: Sep 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

MakerLab embodies our best qualities

Congratulations to the team at the Powerhouse Science Center for creating the awesome MakerLab for our community. This special space embodies the qualities that make Durango such...

DATE: Sep 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Fertilizers not likely cause of algae bloom

While multiple sources of nutrients attributable to algae blooms exist, primarily nitrogen and phosphorus, low water flows and temperature do not necessarily lead to algae blooms unless adeq...

DATE: Sep 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Sportsmen ask Gardner to protect arctic

On December 6, 1960, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower created the Arctic National Wildlife Range (re-designated as part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1980) by public land o...

DATE: Sep 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Loss of Elizabeth Testa is devastating

The Durango 9-R School Board, our district and our community is devastated to have lost Elizabeth Testa so suddenly. Elizabeth exemplified the best of humanity. She was always ge...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Salary for assistant seems exorbitant

While reading the Sept. 9-10 Durango Herald, a classified ad caught my eye: “LA PLATA COUNTY, Asst County Manager.” After listing the job requirements, near the bottom of the par...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Article on Boutique Air stunningly bad

The Sept. 16-17 Herald article on Cortez airfares was stunningly deficient as reportage on several counts, especially given the importance of the matter locally. The reporter’s s...

DATE: Sep 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Check out Diane Mitsch Bush for Congress

We in Eagle County know what a great state representative Diane Mitsch Bush is and know what an outstanding U.S. representative she would make. Mitsch Bush understands that Western and South...

DATE: Sep 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Celebrate the foundation of America

There are two documents of paramount importance to American history: The Declaration of Independence which forged our national identity, and the United States Constitution, which set forth t...

DATE: Sep 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bayfield wrong on Road Runner decision

There are not many things that prompt me to write a public outcry, but what I learned this morning seems so typical of out-of-touch bureaucrats with the communities they serve. I...

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Carbon fee is a viable climate solution

We have had three major natural disasters recently, which have all been made much more severe due to global warming. My heart goes out to the millions of people who have lost so ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Veterans come together to honor 9-11

Sixteen recent-era veterans from the Southwest Conservation Corps’ Veterans Fire Corps joined in patriotic acts of service to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks during the Sept. 11 Nat...

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor