Columnists - The Durango Herald

Uptown parking pickle perturbs peeved populace

Dear Action Line: Finding a spot to park at north Main City Market is a frustrating Easter Egg Hunt. It’s so crowded that shoppers resort to parking on the sidewalk, poaching a space fro...

DATE: Jan 30, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Innovative nursing program to build 4 Corners workforce

Coloradans rightfully expect their colleges and universities to educate students and address critical needs facing our state. A new collaboration between Fort Lewis College and the Universit...

DATE: Jan 29, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Aging dad wants bigger role in kids’ lives

DEAR ABBY: I am an active widower with five grown children. Although three of them live in the same city and two live in a city nearby, I haven’t heard from or seen them as often over the pa...

DATE: Jan 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Utility poles, complex permitting prolong digital divide

On the Western Slope, we are lucky enough to be part of an incredibly beautiful and unique landscape. From the national monuments to the Great Sand Dunes, we live among some of the most valu...

DATE: Jan 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Grandma’s posts strike nerve

DEAR ABBY: My daughter died away nine years ago. She was almost 13. My mother never bothered to have a relationship with her when she was alive. But now, on every birthday and anniversary of...

DATE: Jan 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Balkan Bump fuses electronic, traditional music

Balkan music is dance music. Electronic music is dance music. Mix the two and you’ve got a double-dose of upbeat and body-moving rhythms, although their mating isn’t something that’s part of...

DATE: Jan 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Opioid Harm Reduction

Lately, we have all been steeped in the public health jargon of pandemics, epidemics, and public health emergencies. In the last few years, COVID and more recently, mpox, have often dominate...

DATE: Jan 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

‘Hopeful signs on horizon’ for restaurant industry

We are having deep, thought-provoking discussions about the economy in the General Assembly this year, determining ways to help hardworking Coloradans navigate the financial hurdles they fac...

DATE: Jan 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Woman wants relationship with couple

DEAR ABBY: I'm a woman in my early 50s who has been through two divorces. This may make me sound like a bad person, but I’m really nice and quite conservative. I just make poor choices when ...

DATE: Jan 24, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Wall Street Journal names Purgatory Resort a ‘world class’ ski area that is affordable

Ski village lauded for its pretense-free culture hearkening back to an earlier era

DATE: Jan 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Talk about Town

Train must whistle while it works, any time of day

Dear Action Line: I’ve lived in Durango city limits for 12 years. I know that recently, you addressed the courthouse clock tower chime, with some liking the hourly strike and some not so...

DATE: Jan 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Capturing methane leaks protects all of us

Thirty-five years ago this month, The Durango Herald ran a front-page article announcing that Amoco was planning to drill a thousand gas wells in La Plata County. Today, over 3,500 wells hav...

DATE: Jan 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion