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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

Anti-fluoride campaign is all fear-based

Bob Lieb’s specter of Durango Nazis forcing medicated fluoride upon its citizenry (Herald, Feb. 25) exemplifies what happens when careful, reasoned analysis is abdicated in favor of half-tru...

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

Consent is at the center of fluoride issue

This April, I’m voting for a ballot initiative that would ban city of Durango officials from dosing our drinking water with sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride is not needed to make...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Facts and science support fluoride use

So where are the fluoride zombies? Bob Lieb writes that toothpaste packaging contains a “warning” about fluoride; so I checked. Well, seems he is engaged in the new national past...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Services plan makes no sense to me

Here’s what I simply don’t get regarding the budget shortfall, and the recently expressed plans by our county and city officials to find a means of saving the $1 million needed in order to c...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Refugees not the source of our violence

Just weeks in office and it’s a maelstrom. And the worst of the ego-driven complaints and questionably unconstitutional moves is the immigration and refugee crisis. All from one ...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

More wise words from a former president

This is what I’m reading: “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repre...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Arctic wild lands are too priceless to drill

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is one of the largest remaining complete ecosystems in the world. The refuge contains the greatest diversity of animals in any conservation area...

DATE: Mar 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Kudos to Francis’ bioremediation work

How exciting to read a front-page story about Fort Lewis College alumnus Brandon Francis’ work monitoring soil along the San Juan River after the Gold King Mine spill. All we heard about pre...

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

Pipeline risks not worth small benefits

President Donald Trump’s attempt to ram through the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines endangers America’s land and water, threatens our climate and violates the rights of Native Americ...

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

This president not worthy of our respect

I chose the wrong profession. I should have become a fact-checker. I would have made a fortune. Yes, this letter is about President Donald Trump, whose one-hour-and-six-minute sp...

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