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Letters: Vote Yes on $90 million for our schools

I am the co-chairman of Durango Citizens for Great Schools, supporting initiative 4A on the November ballot. It will authorize $90 million in bonds for capital improvements with no increase ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: For once, president got something right

According to President Trump, Portland (Oregon) has been burning for decades. I never knew that. But for once, he got it right. Just look back at pictures from the early 1990s of ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Porter-Norton ready to serve on Day One

There are good and decent individuals running for La Plata County commissioner this year. And there is an exemplary candidate seeking the office in the second district. That is Marsha Porter...

DATE: Oct 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

On this day: Henry Ford outdoes himself

In all the history of America, there has scarcely been as towering a figure as Henry Ford, and in the world’s history there may never be a greater industrialist. These are not small things a...

DATE: Oct 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Donâ€™t be hoaxed, vote for Mitsch Bush

Diane Mitsch Bush is focused on health care, COVID-19, global warming, jobs and other critical issues. Her opponent for Congress, Lauren Boebert, thinks Medicare should be abolished and the ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Please vote Yes for Los Pinos fire district

The Los Pinos Fire Protection District needs your help on Ballot Issue 7A. To cover a large, mostly rural district and to respond to a 400% increase in calls for service, more funds are urge...

DATE: Oct 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Porter-Norton is a leader for a crisis

Successful leaders work for solutions that are inclusive and that come from the people, not from their ego. Marsha Porter-Norton, who is running for La Plata County commission, is...

DATE: Oct 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Don’t be fooled, vote for Hickenlooper

There are over 300,000 Coloradans with pre-existing conditions whose ability to buy insurance without the ACA would be endangered. Yet Sen. Cory Gardner has voted to repeal or defund the law...

DATE: Oct 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Time to vote No, again, on abortion ban

Coloradans will be asked to vote on yet another abortion ban, despite having weighed in on this issue already. Proposition 115 is a one-size-fits-all mandate. We don’t allow politicians to t...

DATE: Oct 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Vote independent, vote Charly Minkler

In our nation and even here in La Plata County, we need principled people and leaders to help bring us together. Candidates who represent political parties are financed, supported...

DATE: Oct 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Boebert not the strongest in House race

Lauren Boebert, Republican candidate for U.S. House, is running against Diane Mitsch Bush, a retired sociology professor and a former commissioner for Routt County who served as a member of ...

DATE: Oct 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: President Trump doesn’t have that power

Since when did the question “Will you accept the results of the general election?” become valid for a presidential candidate or a sitting president? Before the 2016 election, to i...

DATE: Oct 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor