Opinion & Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Cyclists bound by same road rules
Bicyclists need to follow the same rules of the road as automobiles. Carol Simmons Durango
Letters to the Editor
Continue birth-control funding
Colorado has successfully increased access to LARC since receiving a generous multi-year grant in 2008 from an anonymous donor. Teen birth rates in Colorado have since declined more rapidly than…
Letters to the Editor
Annual contest could solve Arc problem
Like most Durangoans, we applauded the nighttime addition of the infamous T-rex head to the “rock banana” and mourned its removal. We still check out the banana every time we…
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Valles Caldera not the work of Cato
The Valles Caldera Preserve was not an example of privatization, nor was it designed with the help of or is it anything like any proposal made by the Cato Institute.…
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Let the Middle East deal with its war
I rented to a former GI gunner who had a wounded warrior mention on his license plate. He scared me more than once, even though I gave him no reason…
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Tell the city to let our kids’ bunnies be
We love Durango and are involved with animals and young-adult involvement with the community – including 4H, which gives kids the best involvement with helping others here in Durango. I’m…
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Quit blaming parents, explore the issues
The state’s testing debacle has cheated the learning process in the school system, promoted “teach to the test” instead of learning to learn, denied teachers’ rights to teach to learn…
Opinion
Whacky weather leads to random thoughts
Don’t get me wrong. T-shirts in February have their appeal. But I know we’ll be hurting for water this summer if this keeps up. While the “Fire and Ice” photography…
Editorials
Justice reform
Neither politics nor ideology need hamper improvements to a dysfunctional system
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Stop sitting around hoping for snow
I know that what we do now still matters – especially to our children and grandchildren. The best science suggests if we get serious about reducing greenhouse gasses now, we…
Letters to the Editor
Reconfigure stupid Trans Lux Drive
Adjustments should have been made and finalized before construction. From this intersection, a driver would have to drive about a mile out of his way to get to La Posta…
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Death with dignity and a better airport
In the meantime, I will continue my plans to retire to Oregon, where I know I can live – and die, by choices well made. Oh, and by the way…
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Hillary’s gaffes will haunt her campaign
As Reuters reported, “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she made a mistake when she claimed she had come under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996…
Editorials
Finally, a bridge to somewhere
Progress is of course welcome, but the largest hurdle remains – money
Editorials
City election
There is no reason for the run-up to April’s vote to be quiet or uneventful
Letters to the Editor
Support the right to death with dignity
In 2006, my wife was diagnosed with the terminal disease pulmonary fibrosis, and for the next four years, she suffered. During August of 2011, my daughter Brooke and I were…
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Roberts now just toeing the party line
In that vein, she sponsored and helped pass a bill in the Colorado Senate that allows parents to exempt their children from being vaccinated. They can be exempted for any…
Letters to the Editor
Obama’s moral relativism could doom us
Obama’s rather glib and brief history of the Crusades hardly told the whole complicated story of events of 800 years distant, but his moral relativism is rather glaring. As Bobby…
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Work to stop passage of the ‘Dark Act’
This bill called The “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act” (seriously) will be introduced by Reps. Pompey and Butterfield. The bill if enacted will: Prevent states from adopting their own…
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Reconsider North Main marijuana shop
In speaking with a person in the planning office, we discovered that: a) only those within 300 feet of this business were made aware of the proposal, b) the entire…
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Who knew Charles Koch could be ironic?
Apparently, Koch is quite serious. This is one of the most outrageously ironic pieces I have ever read. Those “well-intentioned” lawmakers who created “incarceration nation” were instructed by Koch’s American…
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Exactly whom was Brown channeling?
My question is, was J. Paul channelling Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” or NBC’s Brian Williams? Gerry Schaerer Durango
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‘California stop’ works against drivers
As a biker, if a car doesn’t come to a complete stop and I see their wheels continue to roll, I have no choice but to continue to brake and…
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Working with DHS students impressive
Sadly, when adults think of teens, they may think of overly dramatic whiners who barely will lift a finger except to play a video game This stereotype could not be…