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Letters: Trump is a wise and awesome president

President Donald Trump pardoned a military court-convicted Navy Seal arguing Navy Seals are killers and that’s what America needs to keep us safe. And he’s right, yet another exam...

DATE: Feb 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Our American democracy has expired

When considering President Trump’s impeachment trial, I find this Frederick Douglass quote remarkably relevant: “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trump has my vote

I keep reading more or less letters to the editor in that no one in their right mind supports Trump. No other president has done so much on his list of what he said was going to d...

DATE: Feb 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Cancel the bridge and buy Buckley Park

It would be a shame to lose Buckley Park to development, not to mention the historic school administration building above it. But we don’t have to. Why not take the $4 ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: City must kill East Second Avenue building

This multi-use building is wrong for a few reasons (“ First, it is going to change the street parking conditions of the neighborhood, causing problems for residents and their guests. ...

DATE: Feb 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: 9-R board says it will finally address lunch-shaming Tuesday

Concerned citizens press 9-R school board to address lunch-shaming

DATE: Feb 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: Dem primaries starting to look like Bataan Death March

We were thinking about the Bataan Death March just the other day because we thought the Democrats’ 2020 primary season was starting to resemble it. The Death March was the forcibl...

DATE: Feb 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Population column should run monthly

How disappointing for The Durango Herald to reduce publication of Richard Grossman’s timely Population Matters! column from monthly to quarterly. The incredible shrinking Herald d...

DATE: Feb 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Spend bridge money to buy Buckley Park

The hypothetical question of where might the money proposed for the pedestrian/bike bridge over 32nd Street be better spent has now been answered: Buckley Park. If one ...

DATE: Feb 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Boondoggle bridge needs a good rethink

It is hard to believe the city of Durango is considering spending $4.1 million on this horrible ugly bridge on 32nd Street. Surely, there must be a more reasonable solution. ...

DATE: Feb 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Who’s really behind Tipton?

While I’ve never found rhetoric blaming corporate greed for society’s ills to be completely convincing, learning some basic facts about campaign finance has forced me to conclude that corpor...

DATE: Feb 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Socialists will shape nation with force

A socialist is one who believes the role of government is to shape the nation according to desired cultural or economic values. A hallmark of socialist leaders is they proclaim th...

DATE: Feb 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor