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Our view: Amber Blake should withdraw now and let Council heartily choose Jose Madrigal

Amber Blake should withdraw and let council heartily choose Jose Madrigal

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Hey, if you want to complain, stay home!

To Richard Fisher, Thank you for visiting our small town recently! (“ Thank you so much for feeling entitled enough to use someone else’s property without permission and to then write about...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: It’s what I needed to hear at BLM rally

Thank you, anti-BLM protesters, for focusing my attention on the Friday BLM rally in Buckley Park. You are the reason I attended to support the BLM rally. I heard things I needed ...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Protesters should be wearing masks

I’m looking at a stark difference between the BLM protesters in Buckley Park and the counterprotesters (“ The counterprotesters shouting “USA,” wearing guns on their hips, holding flags, pr...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tom Stritikus: Opening FLC has everything to do with values

Recently, a parent of an incoming first-year student asked me, “So, why is Fort Lewis College opening?” We never closed, I thought. While we operated virtually through the early m...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our view: What ever happened to fun?

Are times so tough there’s no place for romantic comedy anymore?

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Cyclist finds Durango unfriendly, selfish

I stopped at Mountain Bike Specialists on Main Avenue, which has excellent procedures to receive service at an outdoor table behind the store. I rode my bike to back and was waiting under a ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Police should be enforcing mask order

Thank you to Sadie Wendt for her one-woman attempt to enforce the mask order and her courage in demanding men, too, must wear masks (“ Perhaps she let her anger get the best of her but ther...

DATE: Aug 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Aug 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letters: Sad watching Bettin, Youssef on City Council

Three of our city councilors – Mayor Dean Brookie, Chris Bettin and Melissa Youssef – are a real disappointment. Why are they so focused on having Amber Blake as our next city manager? ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: ‘I went up and hit him in the face because I felt threatened,’ she said

A snake bites because it feels threatened. People use reason

DATE: Aug 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Liberals and leftists not at all the same

Peter Miesler’s letter, “ Liberals say it is insignificant if you are Black, white, Hispanic or Indigenous. They say only a racist would claim the race of a person matters. We should all be...

DATE: Aug 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor