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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

Letters: Cyclists, don’t be rude, follow road rules

I have lived in Southwest Colorado for 35 years. I ride a road bike. I do understand why we ride, exercise, compete, etc. I experience so many riders running stop signs...

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

Letters: Show your community love – stay home

I am a public health social scientist at Fort Lewis College. I study and teach about big picture social issues such as how racism, poverty, settler colonialism and gender inequality put vuln...

DATE: Mar 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I am writing to ask you to overreact

I’m a Colorado man born right here in Durango. From my understanding, we have zero confirmed cases of COVID-19 here in the southwestern portion of Colorado? It’s difficult to determine the a...

DATE: Mar 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Mar 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letters: You’re too easy on far-left politicians

About your editorial concerning Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca’s comments (“ “Our politics and our pandemic have had some unfortunate overlap,” you wrote, “not least of which is Dem...

DATE: Mar 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Editorial is cheap, lazy and defamatory

Even by recent standards, the Herald’s March 12 editorial (“ It is a screed that defames both former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. By the way, the former vice president ...

DATE: Mar 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: With the Roths

‘The Plot Against America,’ now on HBO, offers escapist dystopia

DATE: Mar 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Plague journal: How we spent the pandemic

How we spent the pandemic so far and the sadness of social distancing

DATE: Mar 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Vote Turner and Minkler for commission

I am writing this letter in support of John R. (Jack) Turner and Charley Minkler, both of whom are independent candidates for La Plata County commissioner in the upcoming November election. ...

DATE: Mar 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor