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Democrats hide immigrant crime data

The attention-seeking Republican candidate, Donald Trump, has made an issue out of crimes committed by illegal aliens, and the responses from the left have been very interesting. As a gener...

Writer lacks empathy, understanding

This is in regards to the letter written by Naomi Beans (Herald, July 9.) With all due respect, she is clueless. Like Elaine Hatfield, I have lost a child. It is without a doubt an indescrib...

Letter writer knows nothing about case

In response to Naomi Beans’ letter (Herald, July 9): Telling the mother of a boy, whose remains were found on Middle Mountain, later to be ruled a homicide, to “move on with life”...

Don’t waste money on land-grab studies

Over and over again this year, Coloradans have spoken out to oppose the state seizing our national public lands. In fact, a recent bipartisan poll from Colorado College showed that 72 percen...

Sanders is best for the 99 percent

In August, La Plata Electric Association will be distributing $2 million to its electricity users. This is a good deal. In hooking up with the utility each subscriber was given ownership of ...

Letter showed unwarranted certainty

Naomi Beans (Letters, Herald, July 9) should keep her ignorant opinions to herself. She admits she doesn’t know either Elaine Hatfield or Mark Redwine yet she is so, so certain who did or di...

God to deal sharply with sexual sinners

Sodom and Gomorrah’s bloodlines were purged by God in order to dissolve the sinful sexual existence that overtook the population in these two cities. Only Lot and his family were not destroy...

Smart letter warmed heart’s cockles

Every once in a blue moon, I read an article in The Durango Herald that indicates intelligence by the writer. On July 7, I read such a letter by Kevin Swinderman titled, “Stop glorifying wa...

Tie pot-tax increase to a specific use

OK, so let me get this straight – the city wants to raise taxes on recreational marijuana sales by an additional 5 percent, but doesn’t exactly know what it wants to do with the money? In ot...

Peel’s humor, humanity will be missed

Another Monday has come and gone, bringing with it another Monday Durango Herald without John Peel’s column. It feels empty without his stories, his humanity and his humor. I understand he i...

Investing in Smelter is valuable, merited

In the July 1 Herald story, “How Dangerous is the Whitewater Park?” It seems to me that Michael Black had some unfounded comments. Some of Durango’s best and foremost river runners had thing...

Attend Powerhouse listening sessions

The Herald’s editorial staff and others do not seem to be aware that the Powerhouse Science Center (PSC) is a nonprofit. Nonprofits are not guided by business plans. Instead, they are guided...
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