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Getting a flu shot is especially crucial this year

In a normal year, around this time I begin preparing for influenza season by recommending vaccination. In a normal year, I reflect on the decades-long proven safety of the flu vaccine. In a ...

DATE: Aug 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Farhad Manjoo: How to Fix America: Spend. Spend. Spend.

As a respite from a spring spent under quarantine, my family booked a weeklong vacation last month in a cozy, remote house in the California desert. While the kids cannonballed in...

DATE: Aug 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The uncertain future of the events industry

Cycling races, association meetings, concerts and family reunions are just a few of the events that would normally be traveling to and from Durango or taking place in our region this year. C...

DATE: Aug 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Confession rocks relationship

Dear Abby: My boyfriend of four years recently admitted that he cheated on me six months ago. I was blindsided. Until the day he told me, I thought we shared everything. The hollowness a...

DATE: Aug 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Man’s affair reaches moment of truth

Dear Abby: Last night, I visited my 47-year-old son. After a 23-year marriage, he is going through a nasty divorce. While I was there, he asked my opinion about what he should do regardi...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Crockett making it up as he goes

Charley Crockett has packed a lot in to what is still a young music career. The Texan has been a busker, playing for change in cities both in the states and abroad. He’s hoboed a...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Tom Stritikus: Opening FLC has everything to do with values

Recently, a parent of an incoming first-year student asked me, “So, why is Fort Lewis College opening?” We never closed, I thought. While we operated virtually through the early m...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Fad diets: Let’s talk about paleo

What’s a fad diet? Are they good or bad? Could you tweak them to make them work for you? First let’s talk about the global $192 billion dollar weight-loss industry that not just ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Wife looks for words to heal husband

Dear Abby: My husband’s mother recently told him he no longer matters to her because he is an atheist. His mother is supposedly a Christian, but she rarely acts like one. It has left my ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

404 Error: County roads not found

Dear Action Line: Why are there no county roads in the 400s in La Plata County? They skipped right over them and went right to 500! – Jumbled Dear Jumbled: The 400s were not forgo...

DATE: Aug 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Trees can diversify a large lawn and cool the landscape

I never really considered myself a “lawn guy.” Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy lying down under the shade of a tree on soft grass or seeing the outfield of the baseball field bright g...

DATE: Aug 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Ross Douthat: The ghost of contraception pioneer Margaret Sanger

Recently, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced that it would remove Margaret Sanger’s name from its Manhattan Health Center. The grounds were Sanger’s eugenic ideas and alliances...

DATE: Aug 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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