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Letters: Shelley Walchak’s rewarding career

Amidst all the mayhem and shenanigans following election day and whilst sitting on pins and needles waiting for the results, I read in the Mary Oswald Durango ...

DATE: Nov 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Wait a sec – who’s judging the judges?

Were you troubled by lack of information about the judges on your ballot? Voters think if they haven’t heard anything bad about a judge, the judge must be OK. But complaints against judges i...

DATE: Nov 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Laddie John, a good man, will be missed

I was saddened to hear of Stan Dunlap Durango ...

DATE: Nov 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Before you enjoy that Thanksgiving ...

Please, if you have more than one outsider coming to your home for Thanksgiving, insist on COVID-19 testing before anyone sticks their fork in turkey or tofu. Don’t turn the first holiday...

DATE: Nov 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: They use the virus to divide and weaken us

Five-eighths of the baseball season was sacrificed to the coronavirus, but basketball and football have sacrificed nothing. There’s a double standard. Basketball and football are ...

DATE: Nov 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: The coming mandatory vaccine debate

As mandatory vaccinations for school children was approved in the 2020 Colorado Assembly, the issue of mandatory vaccinations for adults may be on the legislative wish list in 2021. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: An apple and a simple act of kindness

I’m 82 and, using my cane, I walk my Lab every morning. We pass a neighbor’s apple tree. Some of the apples are within reach of my cane, which I use to knock one down. I was picking up my ap...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Bret Stephens: How the Times lost its way on the 1619 project

If there’s one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to In some ways, this ambition succeeded. The 1619 Project introduced a date, previously obscure to most Americans...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Herald’s COVID editorial cartoon divisive

I am very disappointed that Cindy Kraushaar Durango ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Black Lives Matter is good for schools

I am disappointed to learn about the current directive from the 9-R superintendent banning the wearing of clothing affirming human rights statements, in particular, Black Lives Matter. Those...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Jamelle Bouie: We waited for a repudiation that never came

The liberal hope for the 2020 presidential election was a repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It is no longer on the table. A Joe Biden win, if it happens, will ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: In harsh city, a dream of shared land

I often have excuses that keep me from loving this place. It costs too much, there aren’t jobs, it feels superficial. I want a way to be here and not feel like I’m in survival mode. I dream ...

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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