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Removing the Arc of History is a mistake

How very sad that the City of Durango has let itself be cowed into removing the Arc of History. If the “haters” didn’t participate in the process of choosing the artist and the a...

Make our legacy a fully functioning river

El Rio de las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio, the River of Lost Souls in Purgatory, the original name for the Animas River, seems prophetic as the river is in a perpetual state of siege from ...

Cutting transit a step in wrong direction

Recently, I read an article about a state budget shortfall (Herald, Aug. 24) that unfairly targets the mass transit system in the southwest portion of the state. This will hugely impact Dura...

Keep the Arc because it is true public art

To the public art commission: We believe that the Arc of History sculpture is a wonderful piece of true public art. It is now, after so much community involvement, much more trul...

Environmentalists want to lock up all land

Environmentalists? What are environmentalists? I think of long-haired hippies who do not dye or cut their hair and live completely off the land in shacks made completely out of ...

Thanks to Western Excelsior for firewood

I would like to thank Western Excelsior in Mancos for the firewood they gave away this summer. I know there were many people taking advantage of this generous offering. They coul...

ColoradoCare puts health before profits

I can’t wait to get on Medicare. As a professional individual who does not receive health insurance through my employer, I have been jumping from health plan to health plan trying to keep my...

Mercy surgery team deserves accolades

I recently underwent surgery at Mercy Regional Medical Center to repair a 19-year-old hip joint apparatus that had broken apart. The procedure to repair or replace the device was scheduled f...

ColoradoCare would save us all money

Amendment 69, ColoradoCare’s proposal on the November ballot to provide health insurance for all Coloradans, proposes that there will be a premium tax on payroll and some non-payroll income ...

Look to Steamboat as an access model

I’ve been thinking about Durango’s response when the guy from out of state filed a bunch of “drive-by” American’s with Disabilities Act lawsuits; people started criticizing the local disabil...

Get the facts on Gwen, Julie and energy

With the 2016 election heating up, it’s no wonder that misrepresentations, half-truths and flat-out lies are being bandied about. That’s just politics as usual; we expect these attacks in ou...

Quakers supporting Planned Parenthood

The Intermountain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) met in our annual gathering in June in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Our yearly meeting is made up of members from Utah,...
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