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School is starting, so remember good hygiene

In many ways, the return of school children to the classroom kicks off the unofficial start to the cold and flu season. While there are many variables unrelated to reading, writing and arith...

Now is the time to get real about real-time airfares

Sue Marcus was looking for a flight from Washington, D.C., to Tulsa, Okla. Instead, she found trouble. Every time the American Airlines website asked her to select a re...

Striving to work on freely, unconditionally loving summertime

Summer has been so good in that way you absolutely know it’ll be. Its tagline is freedom, and everyone feels it. I like watching the kids mill around the yard, circling their own...

Disability definition expands for Colo.’s autistic residents

Colorado finally has some good news for people diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. On Aug. 1, the state of Colorado adopted a new rule for defining developmental disabilit...

Cellphones, apps are useful in emergency situations

Cellphones have become more valuable to our daily lives. We can check the latest weather, keep up to date with news from around the world or look at the newest cat video. Your ph...

Digital-age friendship

Engineer Steve Harris mixes tech links and old-fashioned shared lunch

Public education contains tension between individual, collective

The promise of public education is about to be renewed. When school doors across the nation reopen, the liberty of summer will transform into the obligation of autumn. Students and staff w...

Rain and summer events come to life in the 59th District

After our poor winter snowpack, continued drought in the spring and fires around the state, we were excited to see the beginning of our monsoon season starting in late June. Havi...

A dream deferred

Fifty years on, King’s vision far from reality

Rakowski honored by Gov. John Hickenlooper

AmeriCorps is an exciting concept, engaging more than 80,000 Americans in service at nonprofits, schools, public agencies and community and faith-based groups. Since its founding in 1994, mo...

Wranglers celebrate 25 years of Gary Cook

It began June 2, 1969, a month and a half before Apollo 11 and four months before the Amazin’ Mets. That’s when the Bar-D Wranglers took the stage for the first time north of Dura...

When it comes to mines, bonding is important issue

The recent series in The Durango Herald about mining issues and water quality in the upper Animas River basin highlight an all too common problem: The question of how to handle the legacy of...