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Letters: I guess we’ll all find out in November
Maybe you don’t think it’s important for him to think POWs are important. I guess we’ll find out in November. Mike LarsonBayfield
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Letters: How can he be sure what Trump said?
I assume Vigil was present when Trump made that statement, or how would he have no doubt? However, there are several high-level officials who were there who dispute that claim.…
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Letters: You’re the only news source that forgot
Why in the world would you not have a single word about 9/11? Every other news source in the country did not forget it! Andy SametDurango
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Letters: It’s Lauren Boebert who’s being untrue
She can’t repeal the ACA and protect Coloradans at the same time. And she has not spelled out her health care plans. I have specific plans to improve health care…
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Our view: Unrecycling
The reuse of plastic trash isn’t working – but will anyone listen now?
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Letters: On climate, we can save our future now
The Climate Reality Project summarized the four ways the climate crisis is impacting Colorado: Heat. Colorado temperatures have increased two degrees in the last 30 years. Increased heat translates to…
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Letters: Send Sen. Cory Gardner back to Yuma
One bill – the Great America Outdoors Act – does not make him an environmental champion. He opposed limiting the profligate release of methane. He opposes the bipartisan Colorado wilderness…
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Our view: The accidental president
Theodore Roosevelt, painted by John Singer Sargent, 1903.The White House There is case to be made that such accidental presidents, as one author labels them in a recent study, can…
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Letters: Many red flags for proposed RV park
Why are rural residents being asked to accommodate an enormous increase in traffic volume and noise? Why does Southwest Land Services owner and president Brian Kimmel decline to say who…
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Letters: Durango screws up 32nd Street again
This property should have been purchased back in 2009 when the city could have gotten all three properties along the river at a bargain price. And this property next to…
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Letters: 9-R gets an ‘F’ in teaching good hygiene
The trail is 6 feet wide in much of this loop, so if one is encountering someone going the other way, it is barely possible to maintain a safe social…
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Endorsements: Amendment B makes sense
Amendment B, the so-called Gallagher Repeal, a sensible approach to taxes
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Letters: Wolves are just looking for a fair shake
Perry also questions whether we should be concerned about the impact of wolves on Southwest Colorado elk populations. Most western Colorado elk management units are at or above Colorado Parks…
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Letters: Turns out that Hillary Clinton was right!
It turns out that Hillary Clinton was correct! The commander in chief’s followers are indeed deplorables. Maybe we should send them to the nearest front line to see if they…
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Endorsements: A strong broadside against nicotine use
A strong broadside against nicotine use
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Letters: Charly Minkler is just trying to trick us
Another example of not being trustworthy is his chameleon party affiliation. He was a Republican for ages. Fine, if that’s your value system, claim it. He then switched to a…
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Letters: Commission candidate proposes truce
There are many important issues in La Plata County’s future such as housing affordability, economic development and the urban-rural divide. Some combination of the four of us will be helping…
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Endorsements: Put new state fee initiatives to voters
Put new state fee initiatives to voters
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Letters: Local Republicans should be ashamed
The same La Plata County Republican Party that used to send mailers to its members encouraging them to request a mail-in ballot – what do they have to say about…
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Letters: Diane Mitsch Bush is lying about me
On April 21, 2018, she sent a tweet: “I absolutely support Medicare for All.” She followed that on May 3, 2018: “The majority of Americans … are looking for more…
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Letters: The poor dog, with the Trump supporters
Shame on her for keeping her dog in the midst of such danger for so darn long. She should have been a responsible animal owner and departed at the first…
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Letters: No one wants to be a snitch, but …
No one wants to be a snitch but with a lack of official enforcement, how are we to know where to shop? I would support a list of non-complying businesses,…
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Our view: It was never about manners
This is the perfect time to look at how the Civil Rights movement was made
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Letters: Unmasked man in grocery store must go
Self-quarantining at the grocery store without covering his mouth and nose! Such idiotic behavior obviously defeats the purposes of contact tracing and isolation. It’s precisely this mindless lack of consideration…
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Our view: The first Labor Day parade – they all smoked cigars
Women’s Auxiliary Typographical Union float, Labor Day parade, New York City, Sept. 6, 1909.Courtesy of <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/97519074/">Library of Congress</a> In 1869, a handful of men, among them Philadelphia tailors, founded…
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Endorsements: 6th Judicial District Attorney Christian Champagne deserves your vote now
6th Judicial District Attorney Christian Champagne deserves your vote now
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Letters: Instead of the bridge, pay teachers more
Our teachers, who are guiding our next generation of leaders, have been forced to take a pay cut. In these unprecedented times, could we please be sure our teachers have…