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Mom has fallen out of love with dad

Dear abby: I’m a mother of two girls, ages 3 and 5. Their father and I are together, but I’m not in love with him anymore. I have felt this way for two years now. I’m not exci...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Language can reflect our biases

Most people have learned the “R” word is rude and is not an appropriate term to describe people with intellectual disabilities. But that word has a complicated history that corresponds inext...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

President Trump lets his followers off the hook

When a president orders up a special script, summons the national media and sends a message to all Americans that the “sinister ideologies” of “racism, bigotry and white supremacy” have no p...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Woman happy to be alone attracts unwanted sympathy

Dear Abby: I’m a middle-aged woman who has survived a 30-year toxic relationship with a covert narcissist. I am now blessed to be able to divorce him and get therapy for his emotional ab...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Make the most of the season’s best produce by preserving or donating

Treasure this moment, for it won’t be long until local gardens halt production, and the variety of produce at the grocer diminishes. Should you be fortunate enough to have an exce...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

When siblings are bandmates

Bayfield-based musicians Garrett and Callie Young want to tour. Everywhere. For a young band, playing a show in all 50 states is a challenge, but not unattainable; a band should have a busin...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Durango nonprofits, Forest Service combine forces for Hermosa Creek

From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Durango Nature Studies will join Mountain Studies Institute, San Juan Mountains Association, Trails 2000 and the San Juan National Forest to host an array of ac...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Durango Nature Studies

Epstein’s weird New Mexico plot to extend himself

WASHINGTON – The more we learn, the more Jeffrey Epstein resembles an evil comic book character for the developmentally arrested intellectual – the charming-but-lurid mastermind with a plot ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Attraction stymied by age difference

Dear Abby: I have been seeing a woman who is 21 years younger than I am. She says she loves me, but I am hesitant because of our age difference. We have known each other for y...

DATE: Aug 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Is the bar higher for Bennet because he’s white?

WASHINGTON – Once upon a time in America, it looked as if white men were at long last losing their tenacious grip on power. A black man made it into the White House. A Latina cong...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Maureen Dowd

Haunted by a mistake made 30 years ago

Thirty years ago, as a newly minted pathologist, I made a bad mistake. I had joined a group of doctors who, in addition to serving as medical examiners, ran a private laboratory w...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Coroner's Report

Hop on your bike and enjoy a tour of local farms

I am constantly amazed by the quality and skill of the young bike riders that are continually pumping out of the Durango area. Just this past week, we had two teens win their res...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office