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Letters: Did Bloomberg buy the Durango Herald?

The Durango Herald editorial board’s endorsement of Michael Bloomberg is just plain wrong on so many levels. First of all, no real reasons for the endorsement are provided other t...

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

Letters: Bridge advocates don’t tell whole story

I think it’s disingenuous to rally support for the controversial 32nd Street bridge project around safety concerns, because if you took pedestrian/auto incident reports for a number of other...

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

Our view: That border collie was flawless

The purely bred may compete on looks; we’ll take P!nk’s glad grace any day

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Durango doesn’t need some hired gun

As we as a community search for a new city manager, I submit the following: Durango needs to switch from a council-manager format to a mayor-council format, wherein the mayor is elected sepa...

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

Letters: New renderings show same ugly bridge

Thanks to city staff for the updated renderings of the 32nd Street bridge. Sorry, but it’s still ugly. While the river crossing section matches up with other Animas bridges (which...

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

Letters: One man can defeat Trump: Bloomberg

The Democratic Party choice is clear, singular and imperative: Do we want a candidate who can beat Trump, or do we want to waste our time, nomination and American democracy quibbl...

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

Letters: Sanders supporters brought you Trump

In these helter-skelter days, when opinions flail wild and beliefs rage bold, when things fall apart and the center won’t hold, when the best lack conviction and the worst screech and scold,...

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

Our view: Justice for the poached

A year ago, we told you about the case of two Florida men who had pleaded guilty in connection with a poaching operation based in Limon (“ On Feb. 11, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissi...

DATE: Feb 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Durango needs action on climate change

Durango needs to clean up its electric grid. The Colorado Climate Center has confirmed that 2019 was the hottest year on record for the state of Colorado. In addition to this, we ...

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

Letters: It’s the Democrats who are dictatorial

Finally, the Democrats’ three-plus-years, over-$40-million, tantrum-created charade is over. They lost, they went into a deep state of delirium, all their “damning evidence” prove...

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

Our view: Can we straighten out Durango’s trail mess?

Proponents for the 32nd Street bridge might want to find better arguments

DATE: Feb 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Is Colorado’s secretary of state dodging transparency?

Recently, the Colorado Springs Gazette and its sister site, Colorado Politics, asked, under the state Open Records Act, for a complete copy of the Colorado secretary of state’s electronic lo...

DATE: Feb 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials