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Letters: Commission candidate proposes truce

Let’s keep it about issues. With all of the recent discussions and labeling about partisanship, I propose a truce to my fellow county commissioner candidates. There are many impor...

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

Bret Stephens: How will a post-Trump Republican Party look?

If Donald Trump stages a come-from-behind victory in November, the Republican Party will become an oddity for the Trump Organization: the only entity it owns but does not brand. N...

DATE: Sep 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Endorsements: Put new state fee initiatives to voters

Put new state fee initiatives to voters

DATE: Sep 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Bret Stephens: The unwitting progressives who bolster Trump

As Donald Trump was about to accept the Republican nomination from the South Lawn of the White House with warnings that “No one will be safe in Biden’s America,” NPR was doing its part to ma...

DATE: Sep 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Local Republicans should be ashamed

Did you get outraged at the Sept. 11 attacks? With the coronavirus, we were at 56 Sept. 11s as of Aug. 13. And how silent the Republicans are, including in La Plata County! How petty their n...

DATE: Sep 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Diane Mitsch Bush is lying about me

Diane Mitsch Bush, Democratic candidate for U.S. House District 3, is lying about her health care position and about mine, too; I am the Republican candidate. On April 21, 2018, s...

DATE: Sep 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: The poor dog, with the Trump supporters

The author of a recent letter was so badly scared at Santa Rita Park that she remained there until the group of hooligans (Trump supporters) took their flags, protest signs and shenanigans a...

DATE: Sep 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: No one wants to be a snitch, but ...

While I agree with letters condemning businesses not adhering to face mask mandates, not shopping local is counter productive (Letters: “ No one wants to be a snitch but with a lack of offi...

DATE: Sep 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: It was never about manners

This is the perfect time to look at how the Civil Rights movement was made

DATE: Sep 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Biden certainly did not plagiarize Trump

In response to Robert Goodrich’s letter – does he even know what plagiarism is? (“Joe Biden is a plagiarizing empty suit,” Sept. 1). It is the act of passing someone else’s work or ideas off...

DATE: Sep 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Unmasked man in grocery store must go

On Monday, another woman and I were shopping when a man brushed past us, his mask pulled down to his chin as he spoke loudly into his cellphone. He announced that he was self-quarantining be...

DATE: Sep 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: The first Labor Day parade – they all smoked cigars

It was all about a show of force. In 1869, a handful of men, among them Philadelphia tailors, founded a secret organization, a grand union, which they dubbed the Noble Order of th...

DATE: Sep 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday