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The characters of this year’s presidential candidates

The many policy issues in November’s presidential election pale in relevance compared to the stark difference in character between the presidential candidates. Donald Trump has a long reputa...

DATE: Sep 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Jeff Hurd for Congress

As a native son, Jeff Hurd knows our Western Slope of Colorado. He raises his family in Grand Junction, where he is known as a genuine and hardworking leader. He works to support and strengt...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Vote ‘yes’ on Initiative 310

I am writing to encourage Colorado voters to vote yes on Initiative 310, open primaries/ranked choice voting. I live in Alaska, where this system was approved by voters in 2020 and first imp...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bayfield Manager Katie Sickles works in my best interests

I am disheartened to read of the ongoing attacks on Bayfield Town Manager Katie Sickles by Trustees Alexis Hartz, Tom Au and Kat Katsos, et al. As a six-year resident of Bayfield, a place wh...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump gets pass time and time again

I never cease to be amazed at the pass that Donald Trump gets in the mainstream media despite the consistently outrageous things he says, but this one really takes the cake. Michael Tomasky ...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Listen to young visionaries about Next Steps

That downtown Durango’s youngest business owners favor exploring the city’s Next Steps proposal for a more pedestrian friendly, walkable city is telling. This fits with the idea of urban des...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

It’s still about Uncle Micky

According to Lindsey Graham, Don Trump is “Bat (dung) crazy.” But that was then, before the wholesale of souls who made a bargain with the devil that Trump’s fascism is the route to make Ame...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Next Step is the wrong step

Next Step is a step in the wrong direction for our downtown. Surely, you all remember the city’s last great project idea, an unsightly overpass over the Animas River and 32nd Street to exten...

DATE: Sep 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Safety on the river trail? Anyone?

Just wondering when the city is going to decide there needs to be some monitoring on the river trail. For the umpteenth time this week (it’s only Wednesday), a helmetless nitwit flew past me...

DATE: Sep 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A mom’s endorsement for Matt Salka

As a mother raising my children in La Plata County, I care deeply about the future of our community. I want my kids to grow up in a place where their voices are heard, and their needs are me...

DATE: Sep 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Extinction crisis, climate change and upcoming election

Planet Earth is in an extinction crisis, and climate change is affecting us and all species on Earth now and in the future. No mention of this from the presidential candidates. This is cruci...

DATE: Sep 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump ‘belittled and demeaned those who served’

As the daughter of a career Air Force officer, and the proud grandmother of an active duty airman, I will never understand how any current member of the military, any veteran, or any family ...

DATE: Sep 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor