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Opinion/Letters To The Editor

Durango schools betray parents' trust

What happened to Cindy Stein and her child should scare every parent in Durango (Herald, Mar. 26). While Cindy was fighting cancer, her child was pushed into gender transition without Cindy ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald saves us with exclusive climate ‘breakthrough’

I was so happy that a recent letter writer pointed out that climate change is no longer a concern thanks to a 17-year-old who supposedly disproved the math behind it all (Herald, Oct. 5). I ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Film’s cautionary tale about free speech, education

A film presented at the Crested Butte Film Festival confirmed that the Trump administration is attacking free speech. "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" features a teacher in a small town in Russia...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

'Charm' headline tone deaf to ranchers’ reality

Shame on you, Durango Herald, for the headline, “High Country Cattle Auction brings top-notch stock and country charm to Southwest Colorado,” (Herald, Oct. 1). If you think for one minute t...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Brown, Parmenter, Petersen for caring, well-educated students

I served on the Durango School Board for nearly 8 years and have a solid understanding of the deep responsibility our community has to supporting public schools that are open and free for al...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The Code Rights Project is nonpartisan

In response to Mr. Skillen's letter (Herald, Oct. 5) regarding The Code Rights Project, there are a few important points to clarify. The Code Rights Project has taken no position on the prop...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

You can’t pave over an eyesore

Yes, it's very nice to drive on the recently repaved Colorado 140 in and near Hesperus. And, no, it's not nice at all to drive by the junkyard across from the Hesperus Church. It's been ther...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Grasping for disproof in the age of settled science

A recent letter (Herald, Oct, 5) attempts to conflate the counterexample proposed by 17 year-old Hannah Cairo to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture (a purely mathematical problem), with climat...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

If we must fight, let us fight together

Disagreement has become division. No two-party system can fix what it has inadvertently caused. Economic hardship, poverty, cuts to health care and the burden undocumented immigration has pl...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Administration’s selective outrage is unacceptable

Charlie Kirk’s death was a tragedy. The outrage was warranted. Where was this administration’s outrage over the two students shot at Evergreen High School on the same day by a shooter who ex...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Reject new history interpretation, civics effort

On Sept. 24, The New York Times reported that President Trump endorsed a “new civics effort with MAGA aligned groups.” A new civics education program led by the America First Policy Institut...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Sustain progress: Reelect Brown, Parmenter, Petersen

We are so lucky in Durango to have successful public schools, with a strong school board leading the way. We should all do everything we can to get our incumbents – Brown, Parmenter, and Pet...

DATE: Oct 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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