Columnists - The Durango Herald

Richard Grossman: Population Matters

“ ... To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against t...

DATE: Mar 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Don Coram: Let’s play Fiscal Note Jeopardy!

While the cat’s away, the mice will play. That is exactly what is going on in the Colorado General Assembly. With all the COVID-19 issues during the last session, the executive b...

DATE: Mar 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Respecting the past while embracing our future

Don’t you love acronyms? (I’m thinking you just said “not.”) It’s as if we speak in code with a bunch of letters. Well, I apologize, I’m going to give you another one, one that yo...

DATE: Mar 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: From the Chamber

Let’s continue to build on library’s wonderful legacy

Over 90 years ago, the Bayfield Study Club was founded by a group of Bayfield women who wanted to have a wider range of reading material available. Six of those women formed the first board ...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Shelf Life

New hire wrecked neighbor’s car

Dear Abby: Last year, my across-the-street neighbor backed into my car. At least, that’s what I think happened. My car was parked legally on the street, and there was a huge ...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Farhad Manjoo: How Berkeley overcame NIMBYs

A century ago, the civic leaders of Berkeley, California, pioneered what would become one of America’s most enduring systems of racial inequity – a soft apartheid of zoning. In 19...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Lodgers tax proposal serves business, not people

Monday night’s City Council candidate forum was revealing, as my views of candidates changed and firmed up for whom I will vote. The last answer made a difference when candidates...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letter from Korla

Dana Ariel branching out musically

Local musician Dana Ariel grew up a festival kid. Carted up to Reservoir Hill in Pagosa Springs by her parents for the bluegrass, roots and folk festivals that bookend the summer...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Fortunes change for homeless woman

Dear Abby: I used to be a successful working woman until I lost my husband of 30 years. After I became homeless, I met “Tom.” We’ve been good friends for the last five years, hanging out...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Mike Littwin: We’re no longer surprised at mass murders

Maybe what angers me most about the We can be shocked, yes, because this one happened someplace that we know. We can be heartbroken, surely, that 10 people who should be alive today were s...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Writers on the Range: We can act now to fight wildfires

For the 2021 fire season, the writing is on the wall. The West, despite a few days of intense winter, is far drier than it was leading up to last year’s record-breaking fires. ...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Time for whole-body spring cleaning

We’re starting to get our first tastes of spring, and it is such a balm for body, mind and soul. It can also bring allergies, irritability (spring fever) and a desire to deep cle...

DATE: Mar 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels