Opinion & Letters to the Editor
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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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Soaring airfare defies logic
So my letter is about the why! What happened to our happy little world here that now we have to pay more than a fare to Central America, or Cabo…
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Good Samaritan needed with Superfund
It’s encouraging that Rep. Scott Tipton and Sens. Bennet and Gardner have brought forward a discussion draft of a bipartisan Good Samaritan bill in Congress. Please don’t overlook the fact…
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Learn the real rules of Durango traffic
There seems to be a new set of “Rules of the Road in Durango”: Lights: Red means go, Green means go faster, and Yellow means “go for it” because other…
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Flag is a symbol of heritage, not racism
It is a symbol of our heritage. I, being a “flag flyer,” would enjoy sitting and talking with critics over the historical facts of the Civil War, and possible causes…
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AHS uses a helpful approach to learning
I’m an Animas High School graduate currently attending college out of state as a freshman. Animas High School uses a project-based learning structure to teach their students. I found this…
Editorials
Getting it right
Before requesting Superfund listing, officials seek warranted assurances
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Misinformation putting museum at risk
The Southern Ute Tribal Council has made the decision to discontinue financial support and declared that the SUCCM board of directors must submit to dissolution or “acquisition” of the 501(c)(3)…
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Socialism or how it was in Reagan years?
I attribute this inflation to the state of Colorado divesting from higher education. Colorado ranks 49th in state spending per student and from 1980 to 2011 cut funding by almost…