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Global tourism impacts and creating the new normal

Last week, Visit Durango attended the Destinations International 2020 Annual Conference, the world’s largest conference for destination organizations and tourism boards. The mult...

DATE: Jul 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

How to do your laundry while traveling

“Recycle” is a word experienced travelers never want to hear, and it isn’t because they hate the environment. Recycling means that you’re out of clean clothes while you’re on the...

DATE: Jul 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Your dog knows a lot of words, but does it know ‘yes’?

By Marcy Eckhardt La Plata County Humane Society Most attentive owners have taught their dogs basic words: “sit,” “down,” “touch,” “look,” “leave it,” “drop it,” “with ...

DATE: Jul 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: From the Humane Society

Girlfriend tired of being ignored

Dear Abby: I live with my significant other. We have been together for 13 years now. I would like to ask his stepmother why she refuses to acknowledge me. She sends holiday cards address...

DATE: Jul 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Bret Stephens: American crime and the crazy Baltimore model

In 2014, there were 211 homicides in the city of Baltimore. The next year, there were 342, an astonishing increase of 62%. The murder rate has barely budged since. What happened? ...

DATE: Jul 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Saxophonist Bob Hemenger lets music dictate the plan

It’s like fitting the square block into the round hole. A saxophone isn’t a bluegrass instrument by any means, but Pagosa Springs-based saxophone player Bob Hemenger has played his with many...

DATE: Jul 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Man’s indecision threatens marriage

DEAR ABBY: I have been with my husband for 29 years, 25 of them married. We have had good times and bad, like most couples, but over the last four years, things have changed. We came to ...

DATE: Jul 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s occupation of American cities has begun

The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the best-selling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It was part of...

DATE: Jul 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Don’t sell short the healing power of healthful food

Are you ignoring what your body is trying to tell you? The people I see in my nutrition practice experience a wide range of undesirable symptoms that prevent them from enjoying t...

DATE: Jul 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

‘Sweet Baby’ makes woman cringe

Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I are middle-aged. We have been together for 2½ years. I love him, and I’m grateful for such a wonderful man at this point in my life. My problem is, he calls...

DATE: Jul 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Durango School District horses around with sign’s origin

Dear Action Line: A sign at the parking lot at Durango High School says the lot is “permit parking only,” but the next sign says the entrance is for horses only, with a big exclamation point...

DATE: Jul 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Charles Blow: Let’s start calling things by their proper names – like ‘race relations’

Now that we are deep into protests over racism, inequality and police brutality – protests that I’ve come to see as a revisiting of Freedom Summer – it is clear that Donald Trump sees the ac...

DATE: Jul 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns