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Grandma’s fear of pet causes uproar

Dear Abby: My niece, “Vicki,” will be 18 in a few days. She works part time and has started college. Her mom, my sister, lost her husband last year. Vicki did some research o...

DATE: Nov 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Melissa Youssef: With home rule come great responsibilities

I hope you read my column last month (“ Council is nearing the completion of our search for an executive search firm to help us in this process. After considering 14 firms, councilors appro...

DATE: Nov 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Ukuleles a Durango mainstay

A ukulele is not a toy. A large part of the world may think otherwise, casting the instrument off as nothing more than a four-stringed novelty worthy of the toy chest, yet a few minutes of k...

DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

David Brooks: Impeachment process shows the value of insiders

Let me tell you a secret. The public buildings of Washington are filled with very good people working hard for low pay and the public good. There are thousands of them and they are very much...

DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

The mental health and diet connection

Believe it or not, your emotional state has a lot to do with how healthy your gut is. Every part of your body works together as one system; if one element is out of balance, it wi...

DATE: Nov 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Everything new is old in a roundabout way

What’s with the new directional signs at the Florida Road roundabout? Has there been a flurry of wrong-way head-on crashes lately? Did the city’s sign crew need something to do one afternoon...

DATE: Nov 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Colorado plans to create new methane rules

In 2014, our region gained notoriety as the nation’s methane hot spot. Researchers at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noticed via satellite measureme...

DATE: Nov 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Nicholas Kristof: Let’s make war on loneliness

LONDON – We humans make a lonely crowd, and it’s killing us. Social isolation is more lethal than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, or than obesity, according to research published by ...

DATE: Nov 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Ross Douthat: Who likes ‘Latinx’?

Everyone remembers the image that demonstrated Donald Trump’s cluelessness about Hispanic voters: the picture, from May 2016, showing him grinning over a tortilla bowl, with the immortal twe...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Recovery, revamp and refresh

As we round the corner toward the end of 2019, we reflect on another successful tourism season and Visit Durango’s accomplishments over the past year. During the 416 Fire, Visit ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

For the unlucky, motion sickness starts when the cruise ends

For Katy Breuer, the symptoms start as soon as she steps off a cruise ship. She feels dizzy and disoriented, can’t eat and can’t find her land legs. “It’s debilitating,” says Breuer, an exec...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Julie Westendorff: It’s budget season – and we’re not strapped!

It is hard to believe that the end of the year is approaching, but the chilly temperatures, snow on the mountains and the fact that we are in budget season for 2020 all prove that it’s true....

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Chair