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Letters: Are you proud of causing a mother’s death?

Fire bans during July Fourth were certainly ironic. Just when people want to celebrate freedom by lighting off fireworks, the government tells us we can’t. But fire bans have two important f...

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

Letters: Who’s afraid of out-of-state virus carriers?

It is with amusement that I continue to read letters fearing out-of-state visitors bringing the virus to Durango. And now there is talk about how to restrict or control the number of visitor...

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

Charles Blow: Let’s start calling things by their proper names – like ‘race relations’

Now that we are deep into protests over racism, inequality and police brutality – protests that I’ve come to see as a revisiting of Freedom Summer – it is clear that Donald Trump sees the ac...

DATE: Jul 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: With a COVID-positive worker, you’re on your own

We imagine most people have read the article in the As ownership, we never received any communication from SJBPH as to what the protocol is as an employer who needs to deal with a COVID-po...

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

Letters: What were Durango city auditors doing?

In response to the It is surprising that it took staff members to notice the improper payments to a fictitious company rather than paid professional audit firms examining Durango’s records...

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

Our view: Let’s rename Mount Evans

Mount Evans may finally get another moniker – and we have a suggestion

DATE: Jul 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Jul 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letters: Fine the people who don’t wear masks

I was downtown and saw people walking around without masks. I backed away and gave them space as they walked by. Then two couples got out of a vehicle with Texas plates, none with masks, and...

DATE: Jul 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Whites cannot have a range of views

On the “Chief” sign, or on any other matter at all, if you are white, you cannot and should not write in to explain why the “Chief” statue is not offensive and racist. If someone ...

DATE: Jul 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: That black fist represents communism

We have enough lessons from history, not yet destroyed or painted over, to be able to learn from them. “We the People of the United States,” begins our Constitution, symbolized by...

DATE: Jul 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Mile-High power grab

In Denver, if local government keeps growing it will need its own area code

DATE: Jul 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: I love beautiful Buckley Park just as it is

My first impression of Durango was a beautiful green space close to downtown. What a special community this must be to have saved such a commercially valuable property! For 20 yea...

DATE: Jul 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor