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Elect Ted Compton to LPEA board

Elect Ted Compton for La Plata Electric Association director. Our electric cooperative delivers essential energy to our homes, communities and workplaces. Our systems that provide food, wat...

Compton is prepared for LPEA’s complex future

We are writing in support of Ted Compton as a candidate for La Plata Electric Association Board of Directors. Granted, we are his parents, but we truly believe he is very well qualified to s...

Leadership is adrift in pandemic mania

The American poet T.S. Eliot once wrote, “What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning.” But the pandemic overseers of Durango do not subscribe to s...

Is D&SNG putting profits before people?

It has occurred to me that in this country, big business still has the financial resources to do whatever they want to make a profit. In a previous letter, I objected to D&SNG Railroad over...

Immigrants are essential to our care structure, economy

Immigrants have played a critical role throughout the pandemic in our community. Across the country, nearly 23 million immigrants have been putting their lives on the line in essential roles...

Both parties prone to suppression

Thank you to classmates and friends, Herb Bowman and Gunnar Conrad, for their thoughtful replies to my guest column in The Durango Herald and The Denver Post. I asserted (with examples) that...

COVID-19 teaches us interdependence

Interdependence is crucial for our health, economy and psychological well-being. Without services like roads, education or public health, our lives would be far more challenging. Our strong...

Vote Ted Compton for LPEA board

Ted Compton will get my vote for La Plata Electric Co-op board of directors District 3 (Durango) when my ballot arrives in mid-May. Compton has the technical education – dual degrees in engi...

Sad for death of bear, cubs

It really breaks my heart that you all killed that bear and her babies. People intrude on their territory and where are they to go? It is wrong. I come from the coast and as surfers we kno...

Vote Tim Wheeler for LPEA board

Tim Wheeler is the incumbent running for the LPEA board of directors in District 4. I am glad Tim has opted for another term as he has done as excellent job representing his constituents. T...

Cyclists should use bike lanes

:I walk daily on the sidewalks on and around Florida Road. Daily, some bicyclist creeps up behind us on the sidewalk instead of using the bike path right next to it. They routinely yell, sho...

‘Where’s the beef’ on Valle Seco Land Exchange Project?

The Pagosa Ranger District of the San Juan National Forest published a legal notice in the Durango Herald, which begins a second 90-day public notice and comment period for a Colorado Roadl...