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Letter: Protesters at health directors’ home should be arrested

Arrests and convictions of the right-wing thugs threatening the health director at her home (Jan. 25, “Protesters return to home of public health director in Durango”) cannot come soon enoug...

DATE: Jan 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: Rewrite REAL ID for real safety, less bureaucracy

While President Biden and his new appointees are busy examining the last administration’s actions, we’d like to suggest a good look at the wasteful, discriminatory and useless aspects of the...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letter: Elected officials should do what’s right, not politically advantageous

We should each write our senators and representatives, not as Republicans or Democrats, but rather as deeply concerned Americans who believe that our country is on a road to ruin. ...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: SJBPH director should not enforce state COVID-19 mandates

I deem it necessary to provide corrections and comments to the front-page story about protesters in Durango recently (Jan. 15, “Durango police dismayed after protesters show up at health dir...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: We must rise to the challenges of the decade

The challenges of 2020 have been overwhelming: the pandemic; the mistreatment and murder of minorities by those who pledged to protect and serve; and the attempt to overthrow democracy by ma...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Who cares if Lady Gaga sang the anthem her way?

I would like to respond to V. L. Nielsen’s Jan. 24 letter, “Lady Gaga got the national anthem wrong.” Who cares? It is just one syllable, and I couldn’t hear it when I listened t...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Shout out of thanks for vaccination clinic at fairgrounds

A big shout out to San Juan Basin Health Care, the EMS system, Karen Zink and all those fabulous volunteers who set up the vaccination clinic at the fairgrounds. My 93-year-old dad was able ...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY:

Letter: Kudos to the vaccination clinic organizers, volunteers

Kudos to the folks who organized the vaccination site at the fairgrounds for the COVID-19 Vaccine. It was extremely well organized. Can’t say it’s ever a pleasure to have someone stick a nee...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Who is the real Lauren Boebert?

I read with interest editor Hollis Walker’s well-thought-out and reasoned editorial on the subject of newly elected Rep. Lauren Boebert this week. The editor’s point that Boebert should be g...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Fireplaces, wood stoves should be phased out to prevent pollution

I live about a mile-and-a-half north of downtown Durango. Almost every winter evening when I step outside, the air I breathe smells of smoke from wood stoves and wood-burning fireplaces. Sim...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letter: Lady Gaga offered a dramatic, inspiring example

V.L. Nielsen’s letter concerning Lady Gaga getting the national anthem “wrong” at President Biden’s inauguration got me thinking. It seems to me that the lyrics of the national a...

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor