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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...

Trolley fare ensures safety, mobility

As members of the city’s Multi-Modal Advisory Board, we would like to address the comments regarding the city’s Trolley service in Herald’s June 11 editorial. By implementing the ...

Time for Hatfield to move on with life

I don’t know either Elaine Hatfield or Mark Redwine, but I have to write about Elaine filing a wrongful-death lawsuit against her ex-husband. How long is she going to concern herself with Ma...

Revamped rapid a safe, exciting asset

Statements made with bold authority are 50 percent more believable. I made that up, just as Michael Black did in stating “the risk level has increased” on the Animas River (Letters, Herald, ...

Stop glorifying war and nation-states

How have people worldwide allowed nation-states to present themselves with pomp and grandeur? I stopped at Napoleon’s tomb and saw his epitaph: “I want my ashes to rest on the banks of the S...

Tell Congress to protect AmeriCorps

Congress recently proposed a disastrous bill that would reduce opportunities for young people to serve their country by cutting the AmeriCorps program by as much as 34 percent. Under the pla...

Powerhouse deserves public support

A Herald editorial (June 25) expressed surprise that the Powerhouse Science Center would ask for $125,000 in public funding. Unfortunately, the editorial omitted important facts. ...

Talk should be about health, not money

The front-page headline (Herald, June 30) read “High court sets back mercury rules.” These rules were designed to protect you! The court arguments are almost always about money. U...

Politicians drawn to extremes to advance

It is disheartening to see that good, well-meaning politicians on either side of the political spectrum must turn politically hard right or left to try to please the extremists in their part...
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