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Going off the grid, away from ‘greenies’

I have a friend who is an executive in the company that sells coal to Tri-State, the wholesaler that supplies La Plata Electric Association. He wants to run for the LPEA board. That isn’t a ...

Pay child care workers a decent wage

The average starting wage for a preschool teacher in Durango is about $9.75/hour, and for a preschool aide, around $8/hour. For a teacher, that figures out to about $1,600 a month, taking ho...

Dubit for District 2 seat on LPEA board

Gregg Dubit is running to represent District 2 on the La Plata Electric Association board, and our co-op, economy and community will be better off for it. The LPEA board is an imp...

Pay equity is simple matter of fairness

Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day in April every year that marks how far into the new year women have to work to finally earn the same as men did the previous year – a reminder that women work...

Each has a right to his own beliefs

I am not one that believes in organized religion, as I believe in the prophet Thomas that God is all around us, and his church is all around us on Earth. I do not need a church and its corru...

Alinksy’s protegees run La Plata County

I have to chuckle at the Alinksy-ites running La Plata County. No front-page headlines in the Herald about the airport update meetings, maybe on the second (sports) sections or advertisement...

Synapse triggered ‘redskin’ comments

Sometimes I wonder if J. Paul Brown has time-traveled to us from the 1880s. Take his recent comments on the House floor questioning why we should concern ourselves with public sc...

Plan ahead for fracking rigs’ return

I second Shelly Silbert’s letter (Herald, April 13) commending the BLM’s regional manager, Connie Clementson, for her commitment to move ahead with a master leasing plan for oil and gas dril...

Durango should show more compassion

Wow! For such a great little town, Durango sure has a bunch of grumps. You don’t like art that’s not equivalent to a man on a horse, and you don’t like humanity that makes you uncomfortable....

‘Humane’ goes for local thrift store, too

As a follow-up to the letters circulating about the Humane Society Thrift Store, I’d like to offer a hypothetical. Let’s suppose that shelter director Chris Nelson (who is the best thing to ...

Brown’s quote full of priceless irony

Quoted from Rep. J Paul Brown, R-Ignacio: “It seems to me that there is too much politics ...” (Herald, April 7) Priceless irony. Davitt M. Armstrong Durango ...

Police should learn de-escalation skills

I want to thank The Durango Herald for covering the Fort Lewis College Lifelong Learning event at which I spoke about racial bias in the criminal justice system on April 9 (“All of us have r...
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