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Letters: Cleaned bicycle lanes bring me peace

Thank you to the city of Durango Streets Department for sweeping the Main Avenue bicycle traffic lanes! Most of the dangerous street debris ends up in the bicycle lanes, which for...

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

Letters: I want justice for cyclist Ben Sonntag!

It appears to many that the tragic death of Ben Sonntag, professional mountain biker, has been forgotten. No charges have been filed against the driver. He still has his driver’s license, an...

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

Our view: School’s out ... forever?

In some places, it may not come back in as classrooms are reborn with distance

DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: The master retires for good

Mad magazine artist Mort Drucker loved what he skewered

DATE: Apr 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Donâ€™t relax these laws for pandemic

Clean air and water are essential to our health during this pandemic and always. A new EPA policy to consider reducing enforcement of air, water and environmental regulations when a company ...

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

Letters: We are calling the president ‘it’ now

Mr. Goodrich only touched on a few recent strokes of genius from our president in his letter (“ If only our supreme leader was around years ago, “it” would have predicted the recession and ...

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

Letters: Re-elect Guinn Unger to the LPEA board

I am selfishly writing to urge all District 4 residents to vote for Guinn Unger for the LPEA board. All of us LPEA members have been incredibly lucky to have someone of Guinn’s in...

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

Letters: Fults is a green choice for LPEA board

I support Doug Fults for LPEA Board in my District 2, as well as incumbents Guinn Unger and Rachel Landis. In 2017, I ran with Guinn and Rachel for a very different LPEA board. Ba...

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

Letters: All grocery workers should be masked

While shopping at a local grocery, I asked an employee in the produce department if they knew about the advisory to cover. I got a kinda sorta, yes. I asked if management knew abo...

DATE: Apr 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Gas price critics are just crybabies

Today was the third whiny letter about gas prices. Surely there are more important issues. We pay a fraction that European countries pay anyway. Arenâ€™t we ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: See? Reusable bags spread disease.

Several years ago, we were shown that the use of reusable shopping bags was a major cause of spreading diseases, including E. coli, flu, and other, even nastier, ones. The banners...

DATE: Apr 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Forest Service dubious on Valle Seco land exchange

If I may, I would like to use a phrase that seems to have been lost to the ages. “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” It came to mind after I read the guest editorial by Kara Chadwick, the supervisor of...

DATE: Apr 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor