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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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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