Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Vote ‘yes’ on 4A for Upper Pine personnel
Perhaps most voters now understand that the current property tax mill levy, set in 1998, is no longer adequate to fund the emergency services provided by UPRFPD. Tax revenue that…
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How about just voting for bag fee?
Since we have vastly overpopulated the Earth with ourselves and our stuff, how is it that we can’t bring ourselves to do such a simple thing? In the United States…
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Vote yes for Amendment 66, Kim Martin
I was particularly impressed that Kim was able to find that critically important balance between student individual need and academic achievement. Kim was excellent at being able to view a…
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Amendment 66 increases bureaucracy
Because Amendment 66 applies only to preschool-12th grade funding it doesn’t affect the fiscal problems in the college/university system. Yet, the amendment mandates that 43 percent of state revenue is…
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We are lucky to have Martin, Souder for 9-R
With extensive business, IT, law and public service careers, they are equally knowledgeable in the education world from both sides of the equation – as developers of innovative programs, in…
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Streamlined fire district is better for all
Chiefs Allen Clay, Mike Dunaway and Noonan (along with his bird, Rojo) met regularly for years brainstorming a solution to better serve the whole community. When DFRA began in 2002,…
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Bag fee is out-of-control power play
Charging for plastic and/or paper bags crosses the line. Thievery is a crime. Store managers have confirmed the fact the cost of all bags already is figured into the cost…
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Competence, process are Obama’s problems
Has Ryan considered that the reason for obstacles to certain of Obama’s proposals – i.e. Obamacare – have more to do with problems in the proposals themselves and with Obama’s…
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Support the city’s bag fee at the ballot box
The bag fee ordinance is a small fee on disposable bags at just three locations in the city. It is easily avoidable by bringing reusable bags. This is a small…
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Bag fee a significant step toward change
First, our family has been bringing our own durable bags to the grocery store for decades. When not in use, they fold up neatly on one coat hook by the…
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Vote out all politicians after two terms
It appears to me that, for far too long, it has all been about getting re-elected to office. If the politicians knew that they only had two terms to serve,…
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Health exchanges offer better-priced plans
I decided to wait until after the flood of initial onlookers checked out the site. As someone with a valid need for better, more affordable health-care coverage, I was beyond…
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2 Dave Peterses hold 2 positions on bag fee
While I support everyone’s right to express his opinion, I believe the wording of the letter from Dave Peters of Hesperus is deliberately misleading readers into thinking that I have…
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Either pay fee or move into city for recycling
I also live outside city limits and pay for private trash and recycling pickup. I take my glass to the city-provided bins. Trash and recycle pickup services are paid for…
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Quiet-seeking moviegoer overstepped
I had waited two months to view this film. During the final scenes of the film, the people in the row in front of me were talking and making noises…
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Ignacio utility rates rise dramatically
Residents of Ignacio now pay $63.05 a month for sewer, which is more than twice the state average cost. In 2010 and 2011, our rates were $45 a month. This…
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Bag ban will bring many negative effects
The big problem here is the big stores don’t have the option to “buy out” of the ordinance. What a pity. By the way, the smaller stores will be placed…
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Let us be notable for education, not OCD
The arguments presented against disposable bags are a lie. Council’s action is a decision to compel virtue. Coercive correctness is exclusionary and no way to run a society. Council has…
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Vote ‘yes’ on Amendment 66, bag ordinance
The reality that I’ve had to live with, along with thousands of other students across the city and across our state, is one that includes a huge lack of adequate…
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Vote yes on 2A, 4A and 4B during election
Our fire district taxes will stay here to protect us. Our fire districts provide not only fire protection, but are responsible for emergency services throughout our county. Our mountains and…
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Reducing bag use is the right thing to do
Simply put, reducing our plastic bag use is just the right thing to do. Dire warnings of health hazards, financial hardship, loss of tourism dollars, lawsuits, etc., have not materialized…
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The grocery-bag ordinance makes sense
Cities and towns across the developed world have seen the error of using cheap, permanent plastic bags that have a tendency to wander from their original homes and have passed…
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Ban all plastic bags, but let paper go free
Plastic bags clearly have environmental problems. Big ones. While technically some are recyclable, Durango lacks the machinery to sort them out of a single stream, and I don’t know if…
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There is no ‘away’ when it comes to bags, trash
It’s a fee and only if you decide to use a single-use bag. No choice has been eliminated, and you don’t have to be inconvenienced at only three locations that…
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Vote to keep the checkout bag ordinance
Durango has plastic bags on the Animas River Trail. The cost to clean up the trail is paid by every resident. Plastic bags are jamming the sewer system according to…
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Ordinance means much to younger generations
There was a time, built by our forefathers, that proclaimed all production as good. All growth and development was something positive. Anything bigger was better, and waste was never a…
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Fire district votes will provide fair funding
This November, there will be two ballot measures providing for these solutions. Residents living outside of the Durango city limits, will be asked to vote in favor of a tax…