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Letters: Our back to school could look like this

Students need to get back to school, in person. There are too many risks and problems with distance learning. Could a half-day schedule possibly work? Here’s what I think it could...

DATE: Jun 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Police should check for masks in stores

Since Durango now requires masks for customers who enter commercial businesses, it’s been easier to shop in most places. However, as I entered and walked the aisles of a big box store recent...

DATE: Jun 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

David Brooks: How moderates have failed African Americans

We Americans believe in education. We tend to assume that if you help a young person get a good education and the right skills, then she’ll be able to make her way in American society. Oppor...

DATE: Jun 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: They are whom we really need to thank

I have seen many signs around town thanking all of the first responders and hospital workers for their efforts during this COVID-19 time. This is fine and I am glad they were all here ready....

DATE: Jun 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Please keep posting the COVID statistics

This is a war that we are fighting and it dismays me to see so many shirking their duty to defeat this enemy (“Deaths, body counts, published with glee,” June 17.) They are willin...

DATE: Jun 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Why does Durango honor Columbus?

There is a tall monument commemorating Christopher Columbus in the Greenmount Cemetery overlooking Durango. The inscription reads “to the great discoverer.” What has Columbus ever done for t...

DATE: Jun 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: ‘Chief’ offends a lot of us – take it down

I support taking down the “Chief,” the offensive sign owned by Toh-Atin Gallery on Ninth Street in downtown Durango. It’s a racist caricature of Indigenous peoples who live in Durango and ne...

DATE: Jun 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Elway could carry Kaepernick’s message

I was in downtown Durango, just by chance, and noticed peaceful demonstrators carrying meaningful messages of justice and the end of racism. Fortunately, the protesters in Durango – my adopt...

DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: White opinions about sign do not count

I subscribe to The Your previous article about the Toh-Atin Gallery “chief” sign limited its inquiry about whether the statue should be taken down to artists who depend on the gallery for ...

DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Sign stands for artistic uplift, not racism

When the Chief Diner closed in 1980, Jackson Clark, Antonia’s father, purchased the sign, in part to keep it from being destroyed. Far from being in any way a racist, Clark was one of, if no...

DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor