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Letters: LPEA directors give members a raw deal

Most co-ops like La Plata Electric Association get a nonprofit status so they don’t have to pay a lot of the taxes that other businesses are required to pay. By law, they must refund any pro...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: We need cameras before someone dies

It is time for the city to do something about red-light runners. Not long ago, in five days, I saw one semi and five cars at different times run red lights on Main Avenue at 550 n...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trump Derangement Syndrome not what you think

Trump derangement syndrome isn’t what you think it is. Given the simplistic-slogan-smitten, rhetoric-enchanted nature of today’s Republican party, I set out to understand this thi...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: More yet to do as your district attorney

It has been my honor and privilege to serve as your district attorney in the 6th Judicial District for the past four years. From expanding our diversion and restorative justice programming t...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Jonathan Thompson: We need the same resolve to tackle virus, climate

In the time of coronavirus, I headed to southern Utah’s remote canyon country to do some extreme social distancing. All I knew when I emerged a few days later in western Colorado...

DATE: Apr 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Letters: Why does area gas still cost so much?

Further to the comment by Richard Ruth (“ That 45-day period is more than enough time for existing local inventories to be depleted. My guess, now that Speedway has a near-monopo...

DATE: Apr 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: How will we use this time for change?

Life begins at the end of our comfort zone! No doubt the coronavirus has bestowed a great inconvenience upon all of us. And for people whose very lives have apparently been built around conv...

DATE: Apr 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Famous American poets and a Yeats bonus

It is wonderful to see poetry heralded in your good paper, especially with April coming up, National Poetry Month (“ And while April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead l...

DATE: Apr 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Mike Littwin: Polis didn’t need Trump to make him a virus foil

The wartime president is back. It took Donald Trump only a few days to realize that wishing away the novel coronavirus wasn’t going to work. It might have sunk in with the news that America ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Letters: Police surveillance cameras ill-advised

I believe the Herald is right to question the use of video cameras with facial recognition capabilities in Durango’s downtown area (“ There is a lot of private surveillance in stores these ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Something we can do for Ben Sonntag

I find myself wiping tears from my eyes after reading the many tributes to Durango’s Ben Sonntag – a man I didn’t even know. This loss of such a beloved icon of our community at t...

DATE: Apr 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: City Council must take these steps now

The COVID-19 situation should cause a new analysis of the city of Durango’s finances. City Council must act now or de facto erode our reserve funds. These suggestions avoid layoff...

DATE: Apr 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor