Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

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Speak up to preserve the U.S. Constitution

Thousands of federal employees have lost their jobs due to the current administration’s cuts and threats to cut U.S. government programs. Each job lost has ripple effects throughout our econ...

DATE: Jul 27, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Durango is not immune to elitism

Status is generally and subjectively defined by family background, education, occupation, social network, income and sometimes residence … The category that is always preeminent is income, n...

DATE: Jul 27, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Proud to serve, proud to give: Why Round Up matters

I’m proud to serve as a volunteer board member of the LPEA Round Up Foundation, an independent, member-led nonprofit. Our mission is to strengthen local communities using funds from LPEA mem...

DATE: Jul 27, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Public media cuts could be disastrous

Cutting a billion from the budget is significant, but ending public media funding may do more harm than good in our district. As Senator Lisa Murkowski said, public stations are “not just yo...

DATE: Jul 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Rate design is complex and evolving

To ensure readers have accurate information, I’d like to address comments made in a recent letter to the editor, “LPEA board playing politics with subsidies” (Herald, July 16). La Plata Elec...

DATE: Jul 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

There is hope for a better health care future

A recent news report (available at sunlightreportinsurance.com) revealed that over the past decade the UnitedHealth Group had added close to 2,700 subsidiaries, acquiring physician groups, h...

DATE: Jul 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

LPEA co-op members deserve more financial transparency

As a longtime Durango resident and LPEA member, I am increasingly troubled by a lack of transparency around our electric co-op’s financial contributions to nonprofit organizations. While man...

DATE: Jul 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald does not support a balanced view

As a new resident, I would like to subscribe to The Durango Herald but the paper does not support a balanced view. You may disagree, but from articles I have read the vast majority of Herald...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Poem to the editor: Prayer of a retired military veteran

O God of many names, Care that our nation may recover the strength of compassion – compassion for all the peoples of this world May the official deliberations and actions of our leaders nou...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Scheppelman grateful, seeks dialogue and mutual understanding

Recent media coverage, including by The Durango Herald (Herald, July 11, July 14 ) and Colorado Politics, referenced the Southern Ute Tribe’s statement about my visit. While I fully respe...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

It is not an easy time to be a local newspaper

I moved to Durango in ’76 and have subscribed to The Durango Herald when I could afford to. It was disappointing to read a letter to the editor (Herald, July 13) from a patron who no longer ...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump and Miller, the unnatural disasters

Remember when Trump called COVID a hoax and said it wasn’t his responsibility as president? How many tens of thousands of Americans died by his inactions and stupidity? Now he’s continuing ...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion