Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
For life lessons, check Funday Sunnies
If they are so smart, why not prove it by helping out in our community? Get a job, start a business, shop local, help a neighbor or volunteer. You can…
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Scouts, food drive show Durango cares
Saturday, Feb. 16, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of our community picked up 3,543 pounds of food for the Durango Food Bank. Not only is this an important project…
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Make It Count boxes make me ashamed
It seemed so positive until that phrase about panhandlers, which left me queasy. I emailed the Business Improvement District, asking if it could strike the phrase about panhandlers to keep…
Editorials
There be monsters
In the case of R&B artist R. Kelly, the alleged perp was hiding in plain sight
Op-Ed
We need a legal shift on carbon release
OCT has originated an extraordinary set of lawsuits now making their way through Federal court and the courts of nine states, including Colorado. On Jan. 14, in the case of…
Letters to the Editor
Just how long has this been going on?
I used to expect a predictable viewpoint, a liberal and politically Democratic slant to any topic examined. That’s fine, that’s your opinion, but it was not worth reading the editorials…
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No one throws shade on sweet Durango
Your remarks regarding snowplow drivers in our happy, sweet little town are way out of line. Asking “Did some of the plow people have the night off so they could…
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Hold your tongue, now, it’s a snowy town
Our city and county deal with snow removal as they can with the number of people they can employ and with the monetary resources they receive. This is not a…
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Dennis Johnson was one of the greats
One summer, late 1960s, I worked the Diamond Circle Theatre. Dennis would do”Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Good-bye, or ”The Cremation of Sam McGee, every night as his acts in the Old Time Oleo…
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This isn’t warming, it’s global cooling
Don’t take my word for it, though. Google “geologic climate change” and you will find that it comes in regular cycles over millions of years. This entire discussion became a…
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Licenses for undocumented immigrants
In 2013, our state Legislature passed legislation providing our state’s undocumented immigrants with the ability to obtain unique driver’s licenses from six DMV locations. However, this program has not been…
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Socialism not the answer to anything
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries,” Winston Churchill said. America has seen the vices…
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Direct popular vote for president, yes!
Democrats are certainly not the enemy of the republic and it’s too bad Neds takes such a hateful approach to bring it up for debate. It clearly needs to be…
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Why is city doing this with our taxes?
This trail is poorly designed and expensive. It involves an awkward and dangerous railroad crossing at 36th Street that may never be approved by the Public Utility Commission. It involves…
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This city needs to discover real ethics
Another thing that concerns me about the city is that its Board of Ethics, the board that is supposed to be impartial and objective, is appointed by the City Council!…
Editorials
Hear Churchill roar
New biography fleshes out the mercurial and irreplaceable Winston Churchill
Letters to the Editor
Today is finally Skip the Straw Day
National Skip the Straw Day falls on Friday, Feb. 22 this year. I am skipping the straw on Friday because our planet and our home deserve to be kept healthy…
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Herald fails readers on news about city
So I was sorry to see “John Simpson led fight against Durango’s proposed tax increase” (Feb. 18) reverse course on this commitment and instead present opinion as news. The front-page…
Editorials
To the barricades: Blue states, including ours, take on Trump
Colorado has joined 15 states in a suit against the president. Is it a gimmick?
Letters to the Editor
Democrats are enemies of the republic
They would not even be considering it if the urban population centers in L.A. and New York tended to vote Republican, or if Hillary was president. There are profound reasons…
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Get mom to join #metoo, make us great
In the 2016 election, and it is now clear, college-educated white women were the real edge that defeated Hilary Clinton. Did that mean that women know better, are born Republican…
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Let’s make it illegal for Trump to lie
Our first president was renowned for his inability to lie. Our 16th president’s nickname included the word “honest.” Our current president is renowned for his inability to tell the truth.…
Editorials
Nice work: City, county find prudent flight path
Using ticket fees to expand the airport is a wise and responsible endeavor
Letters to the Editor
Lives are more important than hurries
As a sixth-grader, I was good friends with Harl Kendrick at Florida Elementary School and after his accident I traveled with my mom and Ted Compton to Lubbock, Texas to…
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Love my electric car, can’t wait for more
The technology is there, the majority of Coloradans want it, the time is now. I bought my Nissan Leaf in 2017. It has 18,000 miles on it. That’s 18,000 miles…
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Aspen throws shade on slushy Durango
Why did a plow not come down the lane for 12 hours after the heavy snow began? Can Durango do better? Did some of the plow people have the night…
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Trust-bust these health care providers
For details about the charges, the office referred me to Centura’s Oklahoma City billing department, which explained that the physical was $450, the 30-second conversation was $385 because that issue…
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Greetings from your new county assessor
The task of the assessor could not get done without these hard-working folks. Thanks go out to: Mark Reddy, Renae Dugan, Luanne Hubertus, Diana Cole, Maggie Cowing, Meredith Sigler, Shane…