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Coloradans soon have an opportunity to make sure that our state’s spending stays under control. The November 2019 ballot has a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) question. Please vote to preserve the...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I support Proposition DD on the November ballot, which would legalize sports betting at existing casinos in Colorado (not including tribal casinos) and impose a tax on the betting proceeds. The tax...
DATE: Oct. 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It’s fairly clear we will always have plastic in today’s world. But maybe we should be asking ourselves how badly we need that single-use bag or container. The visible trash and invisible...
DATE: Oct. 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The greatest impact individuals can have in fighting climate change is choosing not to reproduce. A carbon-footprint study of people in the wealthier nations of North America, Europe and Japan...
DATE: Oct. 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In your upcoming mail ballot, you will be asked to give the state of Colorado a blank check. Don’t be tricked into believing the initial language, “without raising taxes ...” Proposition CC is a...
DATE: Oct. 10, 2019 | UPDATED: 6 days 22 hours ago | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
When I was living in Westport, Connecticut, during the 1990s, many roads feeding into the main Post Road were paved-over, 200-year-old cow trails. These roads were narrow and winding as they once...
DATE: Oct. 10, 2019 | UPDATED: 6 days 22 hours ago | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In the past, there were parade entrants that packed the south side of East 3rd Avenue with numerous trailers of decked-out horses and riders, outfitters with their string of mules, dozens of local...
DATE: Oct. 10, 2019 | UPDATED: 6 days 22 hours ago | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I was out at Santa Rita Park with my young son and while playing I noticed something terrifying. There was traffic buzzing by at 50 mph and this park has absolutely no traffic barriers anywhere...
DATE: Oct. 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Regarding the cleanup for the homeless camp: Really? This is ridiculous! It will be trashed and nasty in less than a month. And a homeless camp? Really? The idea of this is ludicrous! Why not...
DATE: Oct. 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Herald’s Oct. 4 editorial (“Democrats can and must hold this president accountable now ”) says that President Trump should be impeached “to hold this president accountable for appearing to seek...
DATE: Oct. 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
So, let me get this straight. It’s OK for the president of the United States to encourage foreign governments, including a Communist dictatorship, to interfere in our national elections by digging...
DATE: Oct. 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Jim Forleo, in a recent letter, proposes, once again, to end all public water fluoridation in Durango based on a small study recently reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
DATE: Oct. 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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