Ad

Brush up your skill sets for business success

Competition is a fact of business life today. Of course, there has always been competition, but it is much more intense today. Competitors are on every corner, literal or virtual. Customers,...

This treatment is not pretty, but it appears to work

Last week, Dr. Matt Clark’s column acknowledged the immense numbers of gut bacteria, characterized in new terminology as the “microbiome.” The microbiome – the trillions of micro...

Satellites race across the sky after sunset

Greetings, stargazers. The time between monsoons and snow also is the season between the objects in the bright summer Milky Way and some of the familiar objects in the winter co...

To discover new ideas, be adaptive to change

When you think of innovation, you probably think about slick technology with cutting-edge features. Innovation is exciting and sexy and always seems to be associated with a celebrity genius ...

Moving to Durango requires mindset, wardrobe change

My husband and I have some land in Hesperus. We’re moving from Baltimore to the Durango area in about six months to build our new home. He’s retired, but I have to work for a few more years....

Feed the world with resource-minded agriculture

Food production is not the problem; allocation is

Facts show City Council has gone too far with bag ordinance

By Cathy Yonker, Mike Finney, Betty Clark, Paul Bynum and Dave Peters The facts surrounding the bag ordinance are clear and evidence to support a vote to repeal it. F...

Countering starvation requires more than just food

July’s column described two Nicaraguan boys with severe malnutrition. Miguel had kwashiorkor, caused by lack of protein. Poor Van’s problem was inadequate food energy; he died from marasmus....

History comes alive with local education project

The San Juan Mountains Association and the La Plata County Historical Society are collaborating for a second season to conduct a heritage education project to increase community awareness of...

Creating something tasty from pasture to plate

If there’s any career that’s got legs in this fast-changing world, it’s feeding people. Everyone’s got to eat, after all. So the ProStart Program at Durango High School is a parti...

Breuer’s comedy is grown up, not adult

Longtime “Saturday Night Live” fans may recall former cast member Jim Breuer best as the character Goat Boy. The New York-born comedian, whose tenure on the long-running NBC late-...

A Rose blooms in our Week 7 Gridiron Green

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. This name goes by Dan Rose, and his Week 7 Gridiron Green was pretty sweet. The DRose from Mancos, not to be confused w...