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Letters: Herald should give the police a break

The Here’s a couple of suggestions for your lists. Remove all the names of people who actively resisted arrest and/or the lawful orders of the police. Remove the names of people who attemp...

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

Letters: Deaths, body counts, published with glee

Every day I see the Start a tally of how many businesses have gone under or declared bankruptcy. I think that statistic is far more important than the body count. I’ll even start, Pier 1 I...

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

Letters: I can follow Carl Sagan – but not your editorials

I’m a reasonably prolific reader – maybe three or four books a week. I have read with pleasure Montaigne, Epicurus, “The Dancing Wu Lu Masters,” Carl Sagan, etc. And I feel that I have follo...

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

Letters: Herald must be afraid to look partisan

It was dispiriting to read the Republicans in Congress, almost without exception, have hewed to the plutocratic authoritarian agenda of Trump and his allies. Democratic control of Congress...

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

Our view: Are these the times made for Joe Biden?

Is the candidate up to the moment, even as President Trump halts and falters?

DATE: Jun 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Local businesses must take these steps

I tried to patronize several local businesses recently, however, the bare minimum of public health precautions, including social distancing and masks, were not being used, so I left. But I s...

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

Letters: Memories with Cy Scarborough at Bar D

I am a little late with this, but I was thinking of Cy Scarborough and a time back in 1989. We had two graduate from Farmington High School, and dad decided we would go, as a family, to the ...

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

Letters: We’ll muddle through best as we can

John Lyons, in a letter, suggests that those who don’t toe the COVID-19 line identify themselves and “the hospital will then have the right to deny treatment for the virus” (“ However, our ...

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

Our view: The Magna Carta’s birthday

The history of animal welfare and animal rights is compelling because we seem to continuously find sympathetic qualities in other animals that we never suspected before – and that, in turn, ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Guidelines are there to protect workers

In response to the article about the health guideline variances, what is the point of guidelines if we never abide by them and just get a variance? (“ As a raft guide, I would not appreciat...

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

Letters: Tourists must be tested and quarantined

I am a physician trained in clinical immunology, asthma and rheumatology. It is highly likely that Durango will experience an increase in COVID-19 infections this summer if steps are not tak...

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

Letters: Sunday is Flag Day – fly stars and stripes

The American flag is a universal symbol of the enduring national unity and spirit of the American people. Whether flying atop the White House or the Capitol, outside a city hall, inside a sc...

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