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Letters: Grocers should enforce mask mandate

The voters have spoken. They rejected Trump’s dangerous anti-science rhetoric, especially here in Colorado and La Plata County. It’s time now for local grocery stores to enforce the mask man...

Letters: PERA retirees support Durango economy

I agree with Jack Llewellyn’s Nov. 7 “Buy Local” article as a way to help our business community get through these challenging times. I also want to call attention to a major dri...

Letters: Calling race for Biden is bogus

I urge you to be very careful about what you print regarding this bogus call of the presidency for Joe Biden. Please remember that the media do not get to choose the outcome of any election ...

Our View: America needs a health care czar

Biden should focus on systemic reform

Mike Foutz: School closures harm students

I am writing this letter independently and not expressing the views of the Bayfield School Board or administration. As president of the Bayfield School Board, I want to thank our ...

There aren’t two sides to this debate, y’all

Good grief. Must we continue to read and hear the blather in letters like “ It is not unsettled, y’all. It is not a political issue, y’all. There is no “other side of the debate,” y’all. ...

Letters: Can you please help with mask-wearing?

Over the course of this pandemic, I have observed numerous occasions when the With so much evolving and sometimes misleading information floating around about masks, I appeal to the Herald...

Letters: Thanks, I will always be available for you

I am honored and humbled to be reelected as your House District 59 representative. As I continue to advocate for rural economic development, education, water rights and clean air, I will lis...

Letters: Treat 9-R super with deserved respect

It’s always a welcome sign of democracy when citizens attend Durango 9-R board meetings to voice concerns and even more so as we struggle to right the wrongs of America’s past (News: “ S...

Letters: These were my mentors – who are yours?

Two mentors in my life passed this spring, and I feel sure they are spreading the energy they shared while on Earth to other worlds needing their attention: Anne Isgar, a lifetime resident o...

Bret Stephens: On the compromises that are fatal to liberalism

In January, in what now seems like a bygone age, writer George Packer delivered a memorable speech, “The Enemies of Writing,” for the honor of winning the Hitchens Prize. “Why is...

Our view: Why not reparations?

Compensating its victims for slavery is an idea whose time has always come