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Citizen urges vote for Melissa Youssef

Melissa Youssef has earned my support for Durango City Council. I have served on the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board with her and on the committee to renew the recreation sal...

DATE: Mar 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

McHenry is a neighborhood advocate

At times, our city councils are not transparent and may not represent the residents of our neighborhoods, but appear to represent real estate/developer interests. Local community...

DATE: Mar 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Youssef has invaluable skills, experience

Melissa Youssef and I served together on the Animas High School Board of Directors during its formative early years. Those very demanding years required us, as a board, to develop school pol...

DATE: Mar 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Newspaper saga not likely to end well

Last December, I submitted a letter expressing my primary motivation for subscribing to the Herald. It revolved around the morning crossword puzzle and Jumble, as the heavily-skewed liberal ...

DATE: Mar 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Keep the political cartoons coming

I wanted to let you know how much we enjoy the political cartoons you run in the Opinion section. They give us a chance to chuckle during these controversial times. In spite of so...

DATE: Mar 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Sen. Gardner turns deaf ear on voters

I just called Sen. Michael Bennet’s Washington D.C., office and was answered right away. I called to ask the senator to oppose and support different issues that I care about. ...

DATE: Mar 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Pointing out errors in a recent letter

I would like to point out few errors in Dennis Pierce’s letter (Herald, March 3). The rioters at the protests were not liberal protesters. They were members of an anarchist gr...

DATE: Mar 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

An open invitation to Senator Gardner

As a concerned voter, there seems to be a lot of unanswered questions in the last 40 or so days. So, Sen. Cory Gardner, I am personally inviting you to a Durango town hall meeting...

DATE: Mar 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Water fluoridation is not just for kids

Next month, Durango voters are being forced to make a decision: whether or not to discontinue fluoridating our community water supply. A small misinformed part of our community is attempting...

DATE: Mar 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Fluoridation is for children, and it works

After reading Mayor Rinderle’s column on fluoridation, I am convinced that our city council has done its research. They have done their job and have unanimously voted to continue Durango’s m...

DATE: Mar 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Brookie and Youssef: community assets

My husband Michael and I moved from Fort Collins to Durango in 2014 to be closer to our granddaughter. We brought Michael’s Colorado State University technology skills and our foundation wit...

DATE: Mar 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Celebrate Americorps, national service

In the spring of 2001, after spending four years of active duty as an Aircraft Rescue Firefighter in the U.S. Air Force, I moved to Colorado and joined an AmeriCorps program. I became an edu...

DATE: Mar 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor