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Letters to the Editor

    • Broderick’s actions work against city’s success

      • Paul Broderick’s actions as a city councilor are working against the well-being of Durango. He fought the franchise fee the city has collected for more than 40 years from La Plata Electric Association and thus robbed Durango residents of $900,000 per year.

    • Make medical marijuana laws fair for all

      • Anyone knows that drugs stay in our system for along time, so this means if you smoke the night before, then say you get pulled over by the peace officer and he says to you, “You seem impaired, we need to check you out.” The test comes back positive, and now you have to go through a lot of red tape and pay a lot of fines and also maybe go to...

    • Dispensaries wrongly linked to teen drug use

      • I was amazed to read a Durango School District 9-R official connect medical-marijuana dispensaries with rising rates of local teenage drug and alcohol abuse in the article “Helicopter = attention grabber,” (Herald, May 10).

    • School nurses key to student health care

      • May 6 was National School Nurse Day. School health services have been described as a “hidden system” of health care by Julia Graham Lear, founder of the Center for Health and Healthcare in Schools at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

    • Writer should stop whining and volunteer

      • Had Frank Klein (Letters, Herald, May 9) studied a modicum of history, he would have learned that senior discounts are a response to the extreme fixed income most seniors live on. The discounts originally were meant to assist them keeping active in their golden years and to thank them for all they have contributed to their communities and their...

    • Scientist not qualified to speak on fracking

      • As a Ph.D. petroleum reservoir engineer and geologist having spent 30 years in petroleum reservoir modeling, assessment and fluid flow analysis, I was both shocked and angered by Tom Myers’ absurd theory that fracturing fluids could communicate to the groundwater (“Two new reports back fears of fracking contamination,” Herald, May 6). His previous...

    • Dinosaur park inappropriate for Animas Valley

      • As an adjacent landowner, I received notice that the train is planning on opening a “Dinosaur Amusement Park” on property it owns in the valley. The plan is to run the train two to four times a day on weekends. The definition of a weekend the train is using is Friday through Sunday. That’s 42.85 percent of a week. That’s between six to 12 trips a...

    • Pranksters owe parents for lost wages

      • To the people who thought it would be fun to take the air out of the school bus tires: When you are caught, I expect full reimbursement of my lost wages!
      Lesha Powell
      Durango

    • Comparing Obama’s decisions to Truman’s

      • President Obama is making a jihad about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. He is showing his buffoonery in comparison to former President Truman.
      Truman was vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was never told about America’s new weapon,the atomic bomb.

    • Friends, neighbors, rescuers helped in fire

      • On a recent Friday morning my house caught on fire. First, I want to extend a heartfelt thanks to the men who, at great risk, came in and saved my girlfriend and me.
      A fine job was done by Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and all the firemen.

    • UN taking up sustainable development

      • There is ample evidence to prove that the La Plata County Comprehensive Plan was crafted and built upon terminology and methodology as set forth by the United Nations Agenda 21 if one wants to find out the truth of the matter.

    • Resource program born from collaboration

      • Thank you for the article “30 local businesses can ‘green up,’” (Herald, April 25). The Resource Smart Business Program highlighted in this article is an exciting new opportunity for La Plata County businesses. The RSBP is a voluntary certification program that helps local businesses operate more efficiently. Businesses that participate will learn...

    • Circus animals typically treated with cruelty

      • Animals used in circuses spend their lives in cages and chains. They endure endless hours in cramped, poorly ventilated and filthy transport trucks.
      It is standard practice to use sharp bull hooks and electric prods to hit, beat, shock, chain and whip animals to force them to perform confusing, unnatural and ridiculous tricks.

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