Columnists - The Durango Herald

Region’s future electricity supply in play

Electricity customers across Southwest Colorado have the opportunity this month to provide feedback about the future of our electricity supply. The Colorado Public Utility Commission is rev...

DATE: Jan 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Wife gets no support about mother in law

DEAR ABBY: I need some advice regarding my mother-in-law. She has hated me since the first time she met me because I’m not from the country but from “the city.” I have given her gifts for bi...

DATE: Jan 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

‘Other woman’ rebuilds her life

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 38-year-old woman who used to be nice. Then I had a three-year affair. Knowing I’m one of America’s bigger fools – and for such a long time – is infuriating, but I finally s...

DATE: Jan 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Badly Bent has new record, new lineup for 2022

Local band The Badly Bent rides again. Or more appropriately, continues to ride, because despite the pandemic, the band hasn’t really gone anywhere. The tenured local bluegrass band, winner...

DATE: Jan 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Man’s anger begins to boil over

DEAR ABBY: I am becoming more and more irritated with people. My fuse is short and I’m prone to bursts of anger. Today, I watched another driver run a red light, and I proceeded to honk my h...

DATE: Jan 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Never miss a thing with new app for cellphone addicts

Dear Action Line: Million-dollar idea for a new phone app: One that would take a 360-degree movie of your surroundings as you “blindly” walk along looking down at your cellphone. When yo...

DATE: Jan 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Action Line

A dark day for democracy

Teaching the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

DATE: Jan 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Webb telescope will see what our eyes can’t

Greetings, stargazers. The Christmas morning launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, with the “trois, deux, un” countdown in French was fun to watch. Unlike Space Shuttle launches, which i...

DATE: Jan 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Native American mascot ban causes needless harm to two small schools

Like a demolition team swinging a sledgehammer, legislators intent on purging Native American mascots from Colorado schools smashed their opposition with little consideration of the wreckage...

DATE: Jan 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Push for profound autism diagnosis steers focus away from more important conversations

What’s in a label? Humans have been labeling things essentially as long as we’ve had language. Labeling aids our memory and helps us categorize based on similarities and differences and avoi...

DATE: Jan 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

San Juan Mountains a laboratory for the study of avalanches

San Juan Mountains Association works in cooperation with federal public lands partners to ensure visitors to the mountains enjoy the region’s grand views, beautiful hiking trails, world-clas...

DATE: Jan 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Rep. Boebert is wrong on forest management policy

Like Rep. Lauren Boebert and all Coloradans, I want fewer forest fires and cleaner air. But her focus on beetle-killed timber is a smoke screen for what her “Fix our Forests” bill really doe...

DATE: Jan 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns