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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

Letters: Time for Gardner to support CORE Act

It’s great Sen. Cory Gardner pushed to make the Land and Water Conservation Fund permanent (“ LWCF has been bipartisan since its inception over 50 years ago. For years it was Sen. Michael B...

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

Letters: Your lowly thistle is a Scottish hero!

A recent article in the The thistle is Scotlandâ€™s national flower and for good reason. Invasive? Hardly! Legend has it the thistle aided the Scots in repelling an invasion of Norsemen wh...

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

Letters: Juan de Oñate was just a fortune-seeker

On grounds not generally considered, I believe identifying Juan de Oñate in the popular sense is inappropriate anyway (“ Though Oñate sought to colonize the new territory in a sense, his as...

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

Letters: Groups vow to take action on ‘Chief’ sign

As a family business, we have worked with Native people as friends and partners for over 60 years. Before the “Chief” sign was first moved to Toh-Atin after we rescued him, we asked the arti...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Don’t destroy ‘Chief’ sign, celebrate it

I am a member and former chairman of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and have lived on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation for more than 70 years. During the Spanish Trails Fiesta in the 1940s...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: ‘Chief’ exemplified racism of his time

Reading Jackson Clark’s defense of his gallery’s “Chief” sign, one can understand his perspective. There is no doubt that he and the Toh-Atin staff have a deep appreciation of Native America...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: What’s next, no Big Boy fat-kid signs?

In response to the “Chief” sign, Durango Peace and Justice states, “In times like these, there is no excuse for the continued presence of dehumanizing stereotypes (nor was there ever). We de...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Court’s adjourned

By their enemies shall the Supremesbe known – and that’s not a bad thing

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: I was “Chief” at Snowdown, it was dumb

The “Chief,” while representing an example of the pinnacle of cultural appropriation, has a significant presence in Durango’s history. Perhaps, rather than dismantling the sign, a...

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Irresponsible? Then you don’t get rights

Many people complain about restriction of their freedom by being told to wear a mask. Freedom entails at least two elements, rights and responsibility. You don’t get to choose. If you’re not...

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor