Columnists - The Durango Herald

Deeper conversations make for more intimacy

C.S. Lewis once wrote that if you’d never met a human and suddenly encountered one, you’d be inclined to worship this creature. Every human is a miracle and is your superior in some way. The...

DATE: Nov 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Inspired leadership marks Snowberger’s tenure

As a colleague of Dan Snowberger, I am writing to acknowledge and appreciate his nine-year tenure, dedication and tenacity as the superintendent of Durango 9-R School District. Following my ...

DATE: Nov 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Family values: Met streams grand opera nightly through holidays

The Metropolitan Opera continues its free nightly streaming of encore productions this holiday week with the theme “Family Drama.” That the roster includes tragedies such as “Hamlet,” “Elekt...

DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Dale ‘X’ Allen works in nitro-twang

2021 should be flooded with music. A deluge, surge, torrent, downpour or whatever word you want to use for the inundation that will hopefully come soon after a coronavirus vaccine has made i...

DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Gift is more curse than blessing

Dear Abby: Every year for the last 15 years or so, my husband’s sister has sent us a huge box of homemade cookies for Christmas. My husband is from a large family, and she does this for ...

DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Daughter dishes it out but can’t take it

Dear Abby: Recently, I kindly and lovingly gave my daughter some feedback about how she berates her husband in front of my 8-year-old grandson. I told her I didn’t want him to grow up th...

DATE: Nov 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Dave Marston: Drought moves Colorado toward water speculation

There’s a concept called “demand management” in the news in Colorado, and here’s a simple definition: Landowners get paid to temporarily stop irrigating, and that water gets sent downstream ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

City fixes problem too soon, flusters columnist

Dear Action Line: I forgot the name of our new city manager, so I did a Google search for “Durango City Manager,” but the photo of Amber Blake showed up. Is this proof that there is a De...

DATE: Nov 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Utility to assist Navajo energy transition

The accelerating transition from coal-fired electricity to renewables is great news for the climate, but poses tough economic challenges to dependent communities like Farmington and Shiprock...

DATE: Nov 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Jennifer Senior: Biden is old. That’s a good thing.

When Joe Biden is sworn in on Inauguration Day, he will be 78, the oldest president to take the oath of office since the birth of our republic. No shortage of observers on the left and the r...

DATE: Nov 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Chairman’s Note: Herald has a new editorial page editor

Veteran journalist Hollis Walker has joined the Herald as its editorial page editor. Walker has journalism degrees from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and wrote a...

DATE: Nov 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The time to act is now

The rise in new COVID-19 cases has caused our community to be moved into a new level on the state’s dial that determines how “open” we can be. We entered this new Level Red: Severe Risk on F...

DATE: Nov 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown