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Guitar Night is for audience ... and players

Alexandra Whittingham and Sönke Meinen can thank their dear old dads for turning them onto playing guitar. If there’s an instrument laying around the house most kids will naturally pick it ...

DATE: Feb 19, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

President Donald Trump’s policies put us in economic danger

Donald Trump’s platform was clear when he was running for president. He promised to make bold improvements – quickly raising revenue by imposing tariffs on foreign goods, slashing prices at ...

DATE: Feb 19, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Drugs, lies pushing wife away

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married to my husband for 30 years. For the past five years, I’ve noticed that he is acting a little different. He’s lost a lot of weight. I found out he’s been smoking ...

DATE: Feb 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Poor choices affect mom’s health

DEAR ABBY: I am a healthy older woman living alone in a building for seniors. I’ve known some of my neighbors most of my life. I consider us like a family. My problem is, my 49-year-old daug...

DATE: Feb 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Relationship makes spouse uncomfortable

DEAR ABBY: My mom and stepdad (“Hugh”) are divorcing after 20 years of marriage. Mom has been involved with scammers for the last two years, giving away money and her Social Security number....

DATE: Feb 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Legislation removes public from forest management

Ill-named legislation that would take a wrecking ball to the public’s involvement in management of our public forests has recently moved through the House of Representatives, and is now unde...

DATE: Feb 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Is someone watching me or am I just paranoid?

Dear Action Line: I’m an almost-daily visitor to south City Market. Last week, as I pulled into a spot, I noticed a trailer with solar panels at its base and a long pole with lights and ...

DATE: Feb 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Not a political statement: The president’s signature is no John Hancock

Our new president is sure signing his name a lot already. And he seems to want to show us each time he signs something. Unfortunately, his signature is not only illegible but also disturbing...

DATE: Feb 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Family planning knowledge is important for women, girls and the environment

Last month, I wrote about the coalition of rich and poor countries, of foundations and nonprofits that delivered family planning to 46 million women – FP2020. Its successor, FP2030, has cont...

DATE: Feb 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Why Emil Bove’s battle against Danielle Sassoon is so self-defeating

It was easy to predict that a diktat from Donald Trump’s Justice Department would, at some point in his second term, prompt resignations from career prosecutors with conservative legal bona ...

DATE: Feb 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Some thoughts on Love, Durango style

It was a holiday gathering in a lovely house at the edge of a forest. Late afternoon sun. Snow falling. A fireplace. I looked deep into the fire, sensed the snowfall outside and tuned in to ...

DATE: Feb 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

An ‘extremely fruitful’ partnership

It’s partnership on making music. But like many, before making music they were fans of music. Both Curtiss O’Rorke Stedman and Jordan Baron had their own individual upbringings loaded with s...

DATE: Feb 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown