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Our View: Public health workers deserve accolades, not blame

On Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, managers at San Juan Basin Public Health gathered to discuss how they might prepare for the coming COVID-19 pandemic. They had no idea what to expect. And like the ...

DATE: Jan 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letter: Reader is ‘disturbed, disgusted’ with Boebert’s behavior

As are we all, I am deeply disturbed by the events which took place last Wednesday in Washington, D.C. I am even more deeply disturbed, not to mention disgusted, that the newly e...

DATE: Jan 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Climate change, drought demand national legislation

Southwest Colorado is in a drought of exceptional level, the most severe level of drought intensity categories, according to a map released Jan. 7 by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Dro...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Rep. Lauren Boebert is a national security risk

“Today is 1776!” is what Lauren Boebert tweeted hours before armed insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, killing Officer Brian Sicknick of the Capitol Police, and injuring nearly a...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Reader will boycott Durango as long as Boebertâ€™s in office

As a Colorado resident living in the Denver metro area I have spent many vacations in beautiful Durango and the Western Slope. To know that Boebert represents this area is sad and dishearten...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: ‘The Donald’ managed to ‘make America great’

It is hard for me to say this, but The Donald did it! He actually did it!! That tyrannical orange thing made America great! The House of Representatives, the Senate, and the pres...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Get real: Election was fair, ‘protestors’ were rioters, news is not fake

Please stop with the verbal attacks on the election. It will not always be the result you may desire, but that doesn’t mean it’s rigged! It wasn’t “a few” rioters who stormed and...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Boebert is a disgrace to Colorado

Lauren Boebert is a disgrace to Colorado and should not be re-elected as a representative to the house. She supported the attack on the Capitol along with the president, and does not represe...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Apply Trump’s executive order against rioters

Just a little perspective: Remember when Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13933, “Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence?” ...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Trump and cronies should be locked up, veteran says

I am very opinionated, but I try to not publicly air my opinions, because we all are entitled to our own. However, what started to be a special day in my life, turned into one of...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Family of George Sands still have no information about his death

George Sands is my brother. I am totally disgusted with the FBI and the Southern Ute tribal ranger. This so-called “case” of my brother’s death is a joke. The death certificate r...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Transparency about vaccine availability is lacking

Here I concentrate on the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to La Plata county residents in category 1b, but soon this problem will befall all residents. There seem to be at l...

DATE: Jan 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor