Letters to the Editor - The Durango Herald

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The Durango Herald using online commenters to call into question the response of Durango Police Department officers during an emergency situation is a disservice to our responders (Heral...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Meddling in another country's democracy

The former president of Brazil, Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years, three months in prison when the country's Supreme Court convicted him on charges of plotting a coup to stop the democrati...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Paths to citizenship, then and now

Thanks for your front page essay by Christian Burney, “World Upended: Family’s lives turned upside down after ICE arrest near Bayfield,” (Herald, Sept. 10). I was appalled by the ugly respon...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Cutting and running is not leadership

It would be amusing if it wasn’t rather sad to witness Sen. Michael Bennet’s traveling campaign show in Colorado last month. In tow, are two sitting U.S. representatives, Joe Neguse and Jaso...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

G.U.N.s don’t kill people … do they?

Charlie Kirk was murdered and many people including our president have vigorously blamed the ideas and beliefs (the ideology) of liberals. This, they say, radicalized the shooter. Hence, the...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A call to protect lives, press freedom

I salute The Durango Herald on its recent editorial, “Our view: silencing Gaza’s journalists silences the world,” (Herald, Aug. 31). The Herald is right to speak up for the importance of pro...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

When will student achievement become the priority?

The release of the 2025 CMAS scores should make every parent in our community stop and think. While officials are quick to celebrate modest gains since the pandemic, they seem to ignore an i...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Free speech doesn’t shield us from consequences

It is appropriate to have career consequences for those celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Those with a moral compass speak loudly and persistently to demand the resignation or f...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Honoring the best of what we can be

Our hearts are heavy in the wake of recent tragedies. What has been most painful is not only the loss itself, but also the rhetoric that has followed. Too often, compassion has been replaced...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Vote ‘no’ on the sales tax hike

This November, La Plata County voters will be asked to approve a new 1-cent sales tax. Supporters say it’s the only way to keep roads and services funded. But a closer look at the county’s b...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Have we no shame, no compassion?

I cannot believe I am living in America, my beloved country of 81 years. I am appalled at the creation of ICE, an organization of masked men, carrying no license or identification, “disappea...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Charlie Kirk, a Christian nationalist martyr

The death of Charlie Kirk was tragic, especially because he was in the act of the exchange of ideas with student at a college. But now he’s a Christian nationalist martyr and Trump – followi...

DATE: Sep 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor