Opinion/Letters To The Editor

SJBPH payments: ‘Not illegal, but wrong’

On Monday, the article about COVID-19 emergency pay at San Juan Basin Public Health was eye-opening, not surprising. Officials are going to great lengths to justify former Executive Directo...

DATE: Aug 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Pagosa ‘leaped ahead’ with pickleball courts

The town of Pagosa Springs has leaped ahead of Durango in the pickleball challenge. Pagosa Springs just opened eight outdoor pickleball courts in its city park. Scores of Durango retirees wi...

DATE: Aug 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Flat topography not a prerequisite’

A recent letter about a roundabout for Malfunction Junction is factually inaccurate. Modern roundabouts have similar limitations regarding street grade as intersections controlled by other m...

DATE: Aug 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Very positive impression’ of CD3 candidate Stout

On Saturday afternoon, Mayor Anna Stout, who recently announced her candidacy as a Democratic challenger for the 3rd Congressional District, visited with some of the La Plata Democrats at th...

DATE: Aug 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Is this a tip on the tip?’

I knew about pay problems at Lone Spur restaurant. It was closed for a time. Menu prices downtown are 50% to 100% higher than when I moved here in 2012. Happy hours have almost disappeared. ...

DATE: Aug 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Council sidestepping pickleball courts’ requests

For the seven years I have been here, the City Council has been sidestepping or ignoring the many requests for outdoor pickleball courts. The insensitive responses and endless backdoor prior...

DATE: Aug 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘No codes’ for land used to ‘store garbage’

Beautiful Forest Lakes – not! The largest subdivision in La Plata County has no enforceable codes in place to protect residents from building contractors who purchase land with no intention ...

DATE: Aug 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

No ‘logging industry in our backyards’

I learned about Independent Log Co.’s activity from neighbors who were concerned about what they were witnessing from their properties. I drove to the site and discovered the hill immediatel...

DATE: Aug 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Veterans should not be political props’

I am a U.S. Army/Desert Storm veteran and I take issue with a letter on Sunday headlined, “’Proud’ of Boebert’s work for the military.” The letter writer is the new vice chair of the Colorad...

DATE: Aug 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Close high-risk sheep grazing allotments’

As recently reported in The Durango Herald and The Journal, grazing domestic sheep on public land can put bears in direct conflict with sheep herders. Thankfully, it sounds like the herder i...

DATE: Aug 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Navajo Nation at crossroads’

After a century of a fossil fuel-based economy, the Navajo Nation is shifting to a non-carbon energy economy. The capital from the extractive industry made multinational corporations enormou...

DATE: Aug 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Televise ‘consequential’ Trump trial

Dear Hon. Chief Justice John Roberts, Now that Donald J. Trump has been indicted for crimes against America and us – the American voters – please, grant the American people the right to view...

DATE: Aug 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

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