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Pet disaster preparedness planning essential in emergency

As wildfires, floods and other natural disasters pose threats across the region, the La Plata County Humane Society wants you to know that we have a detailed Pet Disaster Preparedness Plan t...

DATE: Aug 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: From the Humane Society

Examining the Rayleigh scattering effect

Greetings, stargazers. Most of us have heard the weather proverb “red skies at night, sailors delight; red skies at morning, sailors take warning.” I certainly enjoy watching a beautiful red...

DATE: Aug 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Daily calls to mom wearing thin

DEAR ABBY: I am a 54-year-old mother of two, a wife and a full-time teacher. My days are long, busy and usually uneventful. Every evening, I am expected to call my 84-year-old mother, who li...

DATE: Aug 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Boebert’s bill to delist gray wolves not surprising given her ‘little hats’ comment

Recent media coverage of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bill calling to delist the gray wolf from federal protection misses the most salient point: Boebert loathes wolves. Three years ago, Boebe...

DATE: Aug 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Betty Benedeadly: Groove, psych, twang

Betty Benedeadly’s sound all started with the acquisition of a “banjitar.” A solid reflection of the name, it’s an instrument that’s part banjo and part guitar, and it’s become an integral p...

DATE: Aug 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The role of science in rulemaking

The Trump Administration recently announced its intention to abandon the 2009 endangerment finding that allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide, m...

DATE: Aug 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Will RFK Jr. and the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement change America?

The movement that helped make Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the secretary of health and human services converged politically with right-wing populism only in the last few years, but in spirit the ho...

DATE: Aug 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

New habit has wife eyeing the exit

DEAR ABBY: My husband is going to be 70 next month. He is in good physical shape but has taken up smoking marijuana every day. He says he is addicted. I have told him how much I hate that he...

DATE: Aug 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

There is no “I” in Rodeo

It takes a village for those we love to be successful in this sport

DATE: Aug 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

HR1’s $1.2 billion impact on Colorado’s budget shifts costs to state, increases health care costs 30% to 40%

As we head into the last weeks of summer break, my family has been preparing for back-to-school, and now I’m prepping for back-to-the-Capitol for Special Session. Before I head back to Denve...

DATE: Aug 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

The BBB and Medicaid, when money matters more than humanity

Before the Epstein story caught the attention of the people and the national media, the focus had been on the “BBB” budget bill. Supporters of the bill claim that we are broke, that we need ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

President Trump missed a key budget cut in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Congress recently approved a sweeping budget measure that includes deep reductions in clean energy tax incentives as part of an effort to curb federal expenditures. President Donald Trump, d...

DATE: Aug 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion