Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Letter: Jessika Buell is a voice for small business
honesty and no-nonsense approach to her businesses and everything she manages will bring transparency and accountability to City Council; and her hustle and work ethic will ensure that City Council…
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Letter: Youssef’s experience is vital to council
Thankfully, though, we do have a local leader who has embraced the problem and is working strenuously to address it. That leader is Durango City Councilor Melissa Youssef. Over the…
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Letter: Jessika Buell is a dedicated and ethical candidate
Jessika’s work ethic is second to none. This can be seen not only as a professional, but also as a community member and mother. Somehow she is able to do…
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Letter: Youssef has navigated stormy waters
One candidate especially stands out, however, in terms of dedication, experience, collaboration and the ability to listen to all her constituents: Melissa Youssef. While I can cite her leadership as…
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Letter: Keep cycling safe in Durango area
It is important that all drivers be aware of the cyclists in and around Durango, especially as training ramps up for the spring, and be familiar with what roads are…
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Letter: Lodgers tax referendum promotes excessive tourism
There is a thing called sustainable tourism. It involves putting in place a system of proactive monitoring and checks and balances in order to try to prevent tourism from exceeding…
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Letter: Youssef has advanced Durango, still listens
I have always been extra cautious about endorsing anyone. Four years ago, I was asked to endorse Melissa Youssef and I was happy to do so. I was convinced that…
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Letter: Seth Furtney is ethical, dedicated choice
He has served on Durango’s Parks and Recreation Board for five years and has been a volunteer and crew boss for Trails 2000/Durango Trails for over 15 years. On the…
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Letter: Olivier Bosmans is an honest man
I met Olivier three years ago from playing pool. He helped me out. I admire him for taking care of his kids. And when nobody in this world cared, he…
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Letter: Don’t tear down the old chamber building
What a wonderful place to put a visitor center – at the edge of town on the Animas River, just as you come from south El Camino del Rio, where…
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Letter: Bayfield schools need to explain layoffs
I’m a resident in the Bayfield School District and after looking at my property tax bill I found that the Bayfield School District has the highest mill rate in the…
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Letter: We can’t have too many choices
Life is full of choices: what to eat, where to live, how to vote, etc. Some choices we make end up good, some not so good. In the U.S.A. we…
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Letter: Ask LPEA to provide broadband
However, all the hype has left electric co-ops and their members in rural America with a very different reality. In its perfect world, this new untested spectrum has some notable…
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Letter: Gratitude for Durango’s support after fire
The recent loss of my material things has been an opportunity for me to learn what truly matters most. I am a man who until now has never had the…
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Letter: Just say ‘No’ to developing Hillcrest Golf Course
The idea that these homes would be affordable to the average Durango family is laughable. Wealthy people from Denver, Texas and California will move here and buy the homes. Middle…
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Letter: Don’t let down our guard against COVID-19
After all, where do Texans go, Durango? Will we enforce our local precautions against our biggest tourist group? Time will tell, as well as monitoring the case loads – unfortunately,…
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Letter: Get to know council candidates
That these seven candidates are each willing to dedicate themselves and their time to the often thankless role of public service says a lot about them and their commitment to…
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Letter: LPEA should stay with Tri-State
La Plata Electric is an owner of Tri-State and has an investment of well over $70 million in Tri-State. Unfortunately some of the board members and the management want to…
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Letter: Raise minimum wage, especially for single parents
What is equally disgraceful is what happens to many – yes, many – white women who have to work two or more $7.25-an-hour jobs and juggle their finances because their…
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Letter: Bosmans’ technical, financial expertise needed on council
I have known his children since they were born and remember him cycling his kids to school, one on the front and one on the back of his bike. He…
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Letter: Youssef valuable for leadership, continuity
Melissa is an empathetic leader who listens. Melissa possesses outstanding leadership qualities and has the depth and breadth of experience to provide continuity on the City Council. Melissa has enhanced…
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Letter: Youssef has the right work ethic for council
I saw this same work ethic over the last four years as Melissa served on City Council. Melissa’s character traits are what we need on council for another term. She…
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Letter: Lisa McCorry will lead on City Council
Lisa is compassionate, considerate, and committed to our community. She has worked to build her family business with her husband, David, and spent numerous years dedicated to youth in our…
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Letter: Judge Anne Woods’ approach is good for nonviolent offenders
My son experienced the punitive approach of the local and state legal judicial system. He had undiagnosed depression and anxiety and in retrospect he self-medicated with substances to the point…
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Letter: Follow-up on child’s drowning needed
But as a patron and mother, the 5-year-old boy’s drowning Jan. 17 in the hot spring pools was devastating news. I am not the only person in Durango deeply concerned…
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Letter: CPAC offers comedic visuals
Nice stage design. Based on the 1930s Othala Rune, used as a Nazi symbol. Some “very fine” people. Then the golden Trump statue was rolled in. American flag shorts (you…
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Letter: Moving golf course for affordable housing makes sense
Relocating the golf course to provide for in-town affordable housing would truly set Durango and the county on a long-term path toward sustainability. In-town housing addresses many long-term societal and…
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Letter: Escalante students enjoy newspaper encounter
I recently provided a Durango Herald for each of the students in my class so they could read the Jan. 29 article, “A new search for a camp,” about the…