Columnists - The Durango Herald

Niece keeps secret life from mom

DEAR ABBY: My niece, “Amanda,” is 19 and fairly close with my daughter “Hayley,” who is 18. Since graduating from high school and through her first year away at college, Amanda has been goin...

DATE: Oct 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Keep the faith, river trail and Oktoberfest fans

Dear Action Line: What is the status of the Animas River Trail project behind the high school? The signs say mid-June through late August, and it’s almost October. Construction is still ...

DATE: Oct 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Can we change the doom and gloom upon us?

When in our long lives so far, have we ever felt so much dread at the state we are in? Sometimes, I feel we are at apocalypse’s door, the final and total destruction of the world. This is me...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

What it feels like to find out you have Alzheimer’s

I had been noticing something was different about me when I, a lifelong reader, started avoiding reading instructions - recipes, manuals, long emails. I figured I was getting kind of lazy. I...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Housing crisis isn’t a crisis. It’s capitalism.

Absent a shift in our moral compass, our current form of free-market capitalism will transform U.S. society into a largely unrecognizable system defined by extreme inequality and rising pov...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Qualifications, experience, work ethic’

Since Rep. Lauren Boebert won the 2020 Republican primary election, she has made a mockery of CD3 while spending most of her time away from the district, working to boost her personal brand ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

KSUT takes deeper dive into history, mission

KSUT is grateful for the opportunity to take a deeper dive into the nuance of its history and mission, as a follow-up to this week’s story in The Durango Herald, focusing on our collaborativ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Living arrangement includes surprise roommate

DEAR ABBY: I was in a relationship that abruptly ended because he cheated. We didn’t have kids, so I moved in with my parents until I was able to get back on my feet and eventually moved out...

DATE: Sep 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Woman hid cheating from jailed beau

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been involved for five years. He was sentenced to prison for 3½ years. Before he left, we had a really rocky relationship. He cheated on me with multiple w...

DATE: Sep 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Blast and cast

Visiting old friends, hunting dove and fly fishing in Texas

DATE: Sep 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Sports

At Apple Days, celebrate the versatility of this delicious fruit

Minus the minutes I laid on the couch yelling at the Broncos football team, I spent the better part of Sunday canning applesauce (and pickles and peppers). An early-fall tradition, I spend ...

DATE: Sep 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Young Dubliners returns to Durango

Celtic rock band Young Dubliners’ young beginnings were as a bar band. Literally. In their early days in the mid-1990s, they were the house band for the bar that frontman and guitar player K...

DATE: Sep 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown