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Our view: Remembering The Capital newsroom shootings

In 2011, The Capital column, under the headline “Jarrod wants to be your friend,” was fairly tame. “If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably gotten a friend request or message from an ...

Letters: Leftism more dangerous than COVID-19

We have a national outbreak of leftism sweeping our country and threatening to kill our democracy and way of life. Symptoms of leftism include: hating America; feeling justified i...

Letters: Beware white nationalist internet hoaxes

Like many small towns across this bloodied, occupied, stolen land, many predominantly white folks in Southwest Colorado have fallen victim to an online hoax by the white nationalist group Id...

Letters: Like it or not, this is not all about you

How fortunate for Jaime McMillan that he recovered from COVID-19 with the help of Mercy hospital staff, and has a profession that allows him to stay home, not miss any days of work and keep ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...