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Letters: Tell us how to help local businesses

What if small businesses told us specifically how we can help? For example, “We need at least 20 to-go orders every night to stay afloat.” Or, “Please help by looking a...

DATE: Mar 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Herald should help Durango restaurants

Durango’s restaurants are important to our economy and our quality of life. Many of us have enjoyed an anniversary or birthday dinner, hosted out-of-town guests or just had a rela...

DATE: Mar 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Durangoans are being ripped off by gas prices

I am wondering why we in Southwest Colorado live in a region immune to market forces. I see that the price of oil has dropped by over half, yet the price of gasoline in Durango ha...

DATE: Mar 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: In the pandemic, teach whomever you can

Closing schools makes sense. Denying online learning to all who can does not.

DATE: Mar 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Our view: Online art to stir souls

We’ve seen a lot of helpful suggestions of ways people who are stuck indoors also can avoid dying of boredom, which may be the next great American challenge. They include Then there is the...

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: You can find the best virus advice on the internet

School closings, sports event cancellations, food hoarding. We live in a new coronavirus-induced world. Yet some personal health facts remain unchanged. The Centers for Disease Co...

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Coloradans get gouged on gas prices

Crude oil has been as high as $60 per barrel not long ago. Now it is a little over $20. But gasoline prices have not come down here much since then. In Oklahoma City no...

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Overreaching pandemic powers cut our freedoms

Isn’t it curious the panic and fear-mongering coming from the media “encouraging” people to practice “social distancing,” stay home, don’t travel, stay away from friends and neighbors, delib...

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Empathy is a given for all but Trump

I know three terrific cognitive scientists who study empathy in newborn primates (Frans deWaal), in newborn children (Andy Melzoff), or in both (Mike Tomasello). All three have been reportin...

DATE: Mar 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: We should donate to local businesses now

This town and country has not seen anything quite like what is happening now. My hope is that we can quickly move to donate money for all the local business owners and employees. ...

DATE: Mar 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Now’s the time for action on rural internet

Big thanks and kudos to the director and staff at Ignacio Community Library for a great response to the health crisis. The morning of March 16 it announced the library would close...

DATE: Mar 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor