Editorials
Master leasing plan
BLM should use tool to determine, buffer gas and oil drilling impacts
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Letters to the Editor
Cover churches’ good work – not cults
I am part of the Christian community in this area and am aware of so many good things going on at our local churches. It seems a shame not to…
Letters to the Editor
Ban the box
Effort is at root an acknowledgement of some fundamental realities
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Mines and parks
Get past primary name-calling and ask candidates about money for real needs
Letters to the Editor
Pesticides are scarier than the pandemic
Not that long ago in the news, a well-to-do family rented a vacation villa where extreme illness and death resulted from an irresponsible bug exterminator. I can only imagine the…
Letters to the Editor
Do not idle cars; do pick up after dogs
You should not leave your car idling because carbon monoxide reduces air quality and affects everyone’s health, causes global climate change, wastes fuel and costs money, contributes to noise pollution,…
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Editorial ignored a long-standing law
Beyond the founding principle of gender equity in pay, to quote the website verbatim, “Pay differentials are permitted when they are based on seniority, merit, quantity or quality of production,…
Letters to the Editor
Move Snowdown’s focus off drinking
Having attended Snowdown events over 20 years, I experienced Snowdown evolve from outdoor fun to bar games. Snowdown should focus more how to have fun without relying on drinking games.…
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LPEA base rate increase inexplicable
Board minutes clearly show extensive consideration of the effect of not increasing the base charge. Board minutes show LPEA staff is projecting a $3.9 million margin in 2016 with the…
Letters to the Editor
Compare candidates to help unaffiliated
Before the candidates are chosen, now is the time to find out what each candidate will do about key issues. Tracy Brothers Durango
Letters to the Editor
Add comment option beyond Facebook
Public comment through normal profiles (with all the regulatory checks and balances) exist at media outlets and papers throughout the United States without the added layer of a mandatory Facebook…
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Coloradans deserve options in life, death
I have always been a fighter. Each individual needs to find their own threshold of where their quality of life is no longer viable. I have come to terms with…
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Even under $2 gas here is too expensive
So, pity those who live in places like Pagosa, which is an hour farther away but paying even lower prices? That’s right: As of Feb. 1, gas in Pagosa was…
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Be patient about Superfund listing
From a distance, it’s easy for Lachelt to say that La Plata County was more affected by the Gold King Mine spill than San Juan County. From a distance, it’s…
Pine River Times opinion
Former Ignacio town employee responds to Times article
It is sensational. It is gossip worthy. Please stop to consider my friends and family when you decide to gossip about this. Are you aware there is no Gamblers Anonymous…
Letters to the Editor
Lure airline competition with new airport
But that is not likely to happen soon. So the best thing Durango and La Plata County can do is to improve airport facilities to “lure” more airlines into our…
Letters to the Editor
Code allows sidewalk snow in street
“Excluding” means the opposite of “including.” The way I read it, one cannot take snow from a private property and deposit it in the public street. That makes sense. However,…
Editorials
Legislature
Back in session, but not yet focused on budgeting, lawmakers enter silly season
Letters to the Editor
Cruz is not eligible to be president
The authors were all well educated and prominent gentlemen who traveled everywhere, mostly by horse-drawn conveyance, and thus had a lot of time to think. So, I doubt any word…
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Put local people before foreign profits
Since moving to Hesperus in the spring of 2013, I have read about the increasing number of trucks the company Grupos Cementos de Chihuahua is running on the northern section…
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DGO column would mortify Ballantines
But while reading through the publication I came upon a column by Dan Savage. The topics he covered were, to me, something which would not normally be printed in free…
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Return schools to their historical role
So, with all due respect, cut the following: Eliminate the clinic in the schools. Return that health care responsibility to the parent or the La Plata County Health Department where…
Editorials
Employment picture
Increase in numbers since recession belies a troubling environment for many
Letters to the Editor
Failed summit would raise terror threat
It’s no surprise that the talks will be rendered futile due to lack of representation by Syrian rebel groups who are fighting to depose Syria’s dictatorial, Shiite (Alawite) President, Bashar…
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What about the airport and its name?
The airport terminal idiots are still at it. The citizens haven’t voted but they want to go ahead with the new terminal. Then they say it’s not so bad being…