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Clean power should not be about politics

The debate over implementing the Clean Power Plan in the state of Colorado has become an argument that replaces human values with the unnecessary “agree to disagree” mind-set. The Clean Powe...

Colorado can lead the Clean Power Plan

Regarding the Clean Power Plan, I would first like to recognize and thank Gov. John Hickenlooper and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for all their work and support o...

Keystone would move worse than crude

The editorial regarding the Keystone XL pipeline (Herald, Nov. 9) was, for the most part, accurate. However, one error must be highlighted: your declaration that the pipeline will carry crud...

Apply our ‘can-do’ spirit to clean power

Coloradans are not descended from a fearful people. We are a “can-do” community. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan is not a threat but an opportunity. Distrib...

Colorado should gain from power plan

I am writing to support Gov. Hickenlooper and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in producing a strong statewide implementation plan under the federal Clean Power Plan....

Session wrong to exclude landlords

On two occasions, there were notices in the Herald “Day Planner” for a Nov. 2 meeting at the library regarding tenant issues. Nowhere in the notice did it say this meeting was exclusively fo...

Students should have Veterans Day off

So as everyone knows, Nov. 11 is Veterans Day. And most people know that students in Durango and surrounding areas have school that day. My question is: Why do our students have a day off fo...

Honoring heroes from DHS Class of ’66

As a veteran, a product of School District 9-R and a 1966 graduate of Durango High School, I write this letter about three Durango heroes who should be remembered. Not me – all I did was fly...

Clean Power Plan will benefit Latinos

Climate change affects all of us, but it disproportionately affects the health of Latino communities. Nationally, Latino children are 40 percent more likely to die from asthma than non-Latin...

Do not scoff at religious liberty

Bill Vana (Letters, Herald, Oct. 28) may have evolved from monkeys, but most of the rest of us thankfully have not. Happily, I have a voice on my health issues, and it is based on my worth a...

Gold King Mine is Hennis’ legacy, too

You have got to be kidding me! How we sit here quietly, letting people like Todd Hennis spew his self-centered poison (Herald, Oct. 29) – just as his mine has spewed its poison into our live...

Red Mountain proposal bad for area

Bad news. There is a thinly veiled attempt by one man to dominate all the resources on Red Mountain Pass. David Dow of Grand Junction has applied to San Juan County to build five single-fami...
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