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Letters: The Greatest Generation showed the way

I am eternally grateful to the Americans of the World War II era, the Greatest Generation. They did not protest giving up their rights to travel afar because of gas rationing. ...

Letters: The lockdown protesters are dangerous

British essayist and moralist Samuel Johnson in 1775 famously asserted that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” His statement has echoed down through the centuries to expose th...

Andrew Romanoff: Prescription for the pandemic is Medicare for All

If you go outside at 8 p.m. on any given night, you can hear people howling. I often join in, too. We’re voicing our support for health care providers and other heroes – the women...

Our view: Start wrangling the volts

City also right to move ahead withelectric vehicle readiness plan

Letters: Mask-wearing shows unwarranted panic

People in Durango have lost their sense of perspective on this virus. The risk of death for anyone under the age of 60 and in good health is exceedingly low. Despite th...

Letters: Could we get a city or county attorney?

In reading your editorial “ Of course, the city or county attorney would not be able to subpoena any personal information on these patients. But he could at least be able to get numbers. I ...

Letters: Our constitutional rights are violated

Are we going to continue to have our constitutional rights violated by our elected officials? Are we going to continue to agree to a lockdown without the right to support ourselves or to tra...

Michael Fields: Is this the time for another Colorado comeback?

As Colorado begins to open back up, we know we have a big economic hole to dig out of. Unemployment claims are over 420,000, businesses have shuttered and a lot of Coloradans have...

Bruce Babbitt: Retire some ag lands to save the Colorado River

It is no exaggeration to say that a mega-drought not seen in 500 years has descended on the seven Colorado River Basin states: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Califo...

Our view: It’s all about masking now

Council took the right step this weekto help us reopen thoughtfully

Letters: Stop the shaming about mask-wearing

Enough. I am growing weary of all the mean-spirited letters to the editor that attempt to shame those in our community who don’t wear masks. They have been called cowards, evil and rude, and...

Jerry Brady: They want us to open everything now? Really?

Open a business now and or stay the course? Sacrifice lives or sacrifice jobs? The issue is almost as fraught as the simple choice facing all of us: Do we wear a mask to protect others or go...