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Martin a better choice in LPEA election

Your vote in the upcoming LPEA election matters. The future trajectory of our electrical co-op rides on two possible directions – continuing with business as usual or new visionary leadershi...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bennet did not fight for our democracy

In Sen. Bennet’s editorial in The Durango Herald (Feb. 19), the senator states, “We need to fight for our democratic processes before they slip away.” The filibuster of Judge Ne...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter to Sen. Gardner about methane

I hope you will read this letter and consider my stance that methane is a serious problem and most toxic for those of us living under the largest methane cloud ever witnessed. To ...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Mental health holds in jails have to go

One of the biggest mental health issues the Colorado General Assembly will address this session is the placement of individuals on involuntary mental health holds in jails. Currently, law en...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Not printing columns makes no sense

Your new printing plan is awful. For some of us, reading online is difficult. Mostly, I resent the fact that you no longer print columnists’ full articles and send us online to...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Please act and print like a newspaper

The Herald’s move to a four-day print schedule is bad enough, but I strongly object to your “Readers Digest” version of the editorial page, where you direct your readers to your website if r...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Unger a great choice for LPEA board

The upcoming La Plata Electric Association board elections are more important than folks may realize. By voting, each of us can determine our energy future, protect our dwindling resources a...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Mail process will result in ‘old news’

I live south of the Hesperus area, and we had a family that delivered our paper every day, in all weather, for about four years. Now, you want to start delivering the paper through the Unite...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Paper’s in trouble because of coverage

Is there any wonder why the Herald is failing, cutting its print days and charging the same price, after the article that was front and center on March 22? There in full color we have some t...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Balance is the key to wildlife numbers

As biologists and wildlife advocates, we are told that the three tenets of sound wildlife management are habitat, habitat and habitat. As historians, we begin to wonder, just how...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

No easy solutions to Lightner Creek case

If Ed Morlan was still alive, I am sure he would have something to say about John Hunt’s internet question in your letters section (Herald, March 24). Along with many other people...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Do your part to support the free press

I have been concerned about freedom of the press since President Trump’s first full day in office. Seven of us had arrived back at our hotel, late, after participating in the Wom...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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