Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

Southwest Colorado deserves answers on health care

What does Rep. Hurd think about health care and the government shutdown? Who knows. Hurd certainly does not communicate much on these subjects to his constituents. The nonpartisan Congressio...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump and Putin want the same thing

It’s intuitively obvious to casual observers around our shared planet that Vlad Putin and Donald J. Trump want the same thing: the elimination of the good old USA. Is there any other answer ...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

No Kings Day uplifts community spirit

What is this energy we all sink into when we read the news? There’s so much anxiety followed by anger, depression, confusion and/or numbness. Perhaps the most common experience is feeling ov...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Messaging furthers politics over protection

Has anyone looked at a USDA Forest Service website recently? Every page contains a banner blaming “Radical Left Democrats” for the government shutdown, and claiming that Donald Trump “has ma...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our medical system treats disease, not people

Before 1910, anyone with minimal education could “practice medicine”; quackery was rampant. The American Medical Association addressed this situation in 1908, commissioning Abraham Flexner t...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Reckless riding endangers everyone on the ART

I have seen a few letters from people complaining about all the e-bike riders on the Animas River Trail, and there certainly is a reason for the letters. There are reckless bike riders on th...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Real Americans defend the vulnerable

Congratulations to the citizens of Frisco, Colorado, who came to the aid of a business owner being harassed by Trump’s ICE. That is what the real America is all about: helping God-fearing, h...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Vote ‘yes’ to protect county services

Due to cuts in federal expenditure and property tax funding roads, bridges, public buildings, law enforcement, public safety, wildfires, floods, natural disasters, veterans services, seniors...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Hurd’s inaction speaks louder than his words

I have written several emails to U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd. Most centered on the extreme abuses of power exercised by this administration, and Hurd’s and his colleagues’ meek acquiescence to such ...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We all need government to work

To all last-minute voters, we all benefit from the services that our La Plata County departments provide. We all drive back and forth from work, go shopping or get to school on roads maintai...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

When ‘allergic reactions’ are fentanyl poisoning

Recently, an older adult was referred to me with a question about an alleged food allergy. The story was that he was eating a chicken sandwich at a local fast-food restaurant. A very disheve...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Shutdowns should hurt lawmakers, not workers

I liked the cartoon regarding a possible side effect of the government shutdown (Herald, Oct. 17). So, here’s a thought I have offered over the decades whenever there was a government shutdo...

DATE: Oct 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor