Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

Letters: Let’s stop paying for shadow electricity

Habits become effective after repeating a routine for a week. You can save between $20 to $40 a month on your electric bill if you stop paying for shadow electricity. A...

DATE: Mar 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Are you really Trump’s kind of people?

Trump aficionados, what do you think of the cleanup your guy is doing as a follow-up to his impeachment? Senator Susan Collins was sure there would be lessons learned by the presi...

DATE: Mar 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Get these Durango butts out

Walk on Main Avenue. Outside of each business on the city’s sidewalks – and just off the curbs in the streets – see scores of cigarette butts. Lots and lots of butts, tossed – where eventual...

DATE: Mar 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: On bridge, three paths to the same point is overkill

Regarding the 32nd Street bridges, I spent a few hours viewing the many letters, the cityâ€™s website and all that has been done so far on the north end. If it were up to me I wou...

DATE: Mar 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Richard Grossman: Take this environmental group’s new survey now

Most surveys that come online seem to just be gimmicks to get me interested in a cause, then ask me for money. This survey won’t ask for money – just for your opinion on human population, co...

DATE: Mar 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Cory Gardner must be voted out of office

Cory Gardner’s recent article in the Herald affirms hiss lack of credibility to represent the people of Colorado in the U.S. Senate (“ He,along with nearly every member of the Republican Se...

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

Letters: Skeptics are politicizing climate change

From my perspective as an economic geologist, Mr. Riethmiller’s letter to the editor is misleading (“ There are mistakes in his use of incomplete facts and knowledge. Acid Rain is and was r...

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

Letters: Centura and Mercy should reconsider

As an independent family physician in Durango for 17 years, I have strongly supported Mercy, believing a successful community hospital is vital to my patients and our community. T...

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

Letter: Every primary vote should be counted

It is a mistake for the state of Colorado to not count the votes for candidates who dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary. Regardless of whether the candidates are in...

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

Barbara Mclachlan: How I voted on Colorado’s death penalty repeal

My job as a legislator is to listen to all sides of an issue and to my constituents before making decisions. Last week, we wrestled with the weightiest question before the General Assembly d...

DATE: Mar 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns