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Letter: Supreme Court among those to blame for election outcome

The various states attorneys, along with their judges, have blocked investigations or refused to see the evidence that has been documented; therefore, these are also evidence. People are evi...

DATE: Dec 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Make ice skating a year-round sport

The figure skating program at Chapman Hill is growing. The athletes there are passing United States Figure Skating (USFS) tests and competing in USFS events. However, it will all come to a h...

DATE: Dec 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Lauren Boebert is off to a bad start

It would be hard to imagine a worse start for Congresswoman-elect Lauren Boebert than her joining the anti-democratic movement seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election. S...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our View: COVID-19: The truth

Daniel Bergman has heard it all, every possible irrational, misinformed, paranoid idea about COVID-19 and the vaccines. A few examples: Bill Gates created the virus. The vaccine i...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letter: City clarifies tax spending on streets

As the media and community engagement manager for the city, I applaud the question raised by Durango High School student Naomi Rowe (“More questions about the 9-R bond issue,” Dec. 18) regar...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Taggers should be caught and punished

It seems since the school closures early this year due to the pandemic, there has also been a pandemic of “tagging,” the defacing and defiling of public and private property in and around Du...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Lauren Boebert should represent all constitutents

Frankly I donâ€™t care what political party Boebert belongs to. I am concerned that by her own words and actions she is indicating that she is not going to be a representative for all the pe...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Wait – “Quiet Lake Nighthorse” is what?

Regarding the Dec. 26 letter, “Quiet Lake Nighthorse movement is elitist, selfish:” Pardon me? Did you say something? Can’t hear over the outboard! Davitt M. Armstro...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Pandemic-hoaxers have been deceiving themselves on COVID-19

Pandemic-hoaxers have been deceiving themselves on COVID-19. They have been deceived, almost always by themselves. Many of the individuals preaching to us about what measures we s...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: When can a stroke victim get a vaccine?

I called San Juan Basin Public Health and a message indicated I should call an 800 number. I called it and a woman answered. I simply asked when a stroke victim can get the vaccine in Durang...

DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Legislators must act on climage change now

Everywhere I’ve lived I have experienced the effects of climate change. In Maryland, each summer felt thicker with humidity and torrential thunderstorms caused floods that eventually broke r...

DATE: Dec 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Timothy Egan: Lewis and Clark’s travails offer guidance

Every five years or so I try to return to land’s end, the continent’s western edge, where the Columbia River empties into the Pacific Ocean – the final heave of the River of the West. I pref...

DATE: Dec 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns