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Letter: Keep cycling safe in Durango area

Last year at this time, the collective heart of the cycling community was broken when Ben Sonntag was killed while out training on a county road. It is important that all drivers...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Lodgers tax referendum promotes excessive tourism

The City of Durango is asking us to vote on a lodgers tax increase to fund something called Sustainable Tourism Marketing. There is a thing called sustainable tourism. It involve...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Youssef has advanced Durango, still listens

As a 41-year resident of La Plata C, I have been approached by many folks for an endorsement when they ran for political office. Several have been successful in their races, while others hav...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Seth Furtney is ethical, dedicated choice

I am writing to support Seth Furtney in his candidacy for City Council. I have known Seth personally for many years and he is an energetic, ethical, dedicated, intelligent and practical pers...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Olivier Bosmans is an honest man

I live at Purple Cliffs and wound up here after losing several jobs and the pandemic. Law officials know me as a good man grateful for what this city has done. I met Olivier thre...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Let’s practice civil discourse

When Christi Zeller first heard about protesters picketing San Juan Basin Public Health Director Liane Jollon’s house, she thought, “I know what that feels like.” Zeller, executi...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

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DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Allen Best: Will Comanche 3 be the state’s last coal plant?

Coal to feed the roaring blast furnaces of Pueblo’s steel mill was being mined a century ago at dozens of hamlets in the foothills of Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Range. Little remains today ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Don’t tear down the old chamber building

Demolition of a perfectly good and useful building (Chamber of Commerce building in Santa Rita Park) seems like an awful shame to me. This building was the first one I entered, the first tim...

DATE: Mar 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Bayfield schools need to explain layoffs

I just read the Herald report on the Bayfield School District plans to I’m a resident in the Bayfield School District and after looking at my property tax bill I found that the Bayfield Sc...

DATE: Mar 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: We can’t have too many choices

On March 4, in an Life is full of choices: what to eat, where to live, how to vote, etc. Some choices we make end up good, some not so good. In the U.S.A. we are lucky to still have that c...

DATE: Mar 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Rep. Barbara McLachlan: Playing “Mother, May I?” and “High Hurdles”

My last few weeks have been filled with Zooms, phone calls and research concerning a Legislative Game combining “Mother, May I?” with the High Hurdles. It’s been grueling and chal...

DATE: Mar 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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