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Local bands will battle this summer

Nobody said the music business was a walk in the park. The band Dire Straits took a sarcastic look at how some view the music biz with their 1985 hit “Money for Nothing,” with that infectiou...

DATE: May 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Seeing ‘white supremacy’ everywhere is foolish

In Australia recently, the party of the left lost an election it was supposed to win, to a conservative government headed by an evangelical Christian who won working-class votes by opposing ...

DATE: May 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Our cities are unlivable – blame wealthy liberals

To live in California is to experience the cryptic phrase that George W. Bush once used to describe the invasion of Iraq: “Catastrophic success.” The economy here is booming, but ...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The 90/10 principle for diet success

The diet roller-coaster or yo-yo dieting is all too familiar for so many. We know losing weight will help improve health, but making it happen is another story. The on-again, off-...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Girlfriend competes for time with ex

Dear Abby: I have been dating my boyfriend for two years. He is 10 years older, in his mid-40s. He is wonderful, kind, smart, and treats me well. There is only one issue: He still lives ...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Stop facial recognition

San Francisco is right: We need to halt the technology at least until we figure out how it’s being used

DATE: May 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

‘Canning’ with glass is a jarring concept

When I was a kid, we had a large garden and put up veggies. We jarred ketchup, beets, beans, tomatoes, corn and other crops. I just don’t understand why we call this “canning” when it’s “jar...

DATE: May 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Rides are not woman’s only issue

Dear Abby: I have been in a relationship for 10 years. We live together as husband and wife, but for personal reasons, we decided marriage is not for us. I have been married and divorced...

DATE: May 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Vote Biden to cancel totalitarian call-out culture

This month, a video of Joe Biden saying he had “no empathy” for “the younger generation” that “tells me how tough things are” resurfaced on social media. The video was over a year...

DATE: May 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The challenge of the omnivore’s dilemma in the modern world

Humans are among the world’s few species that are omnivores. In 1976, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Paul Rozin coined the term, the omnivore’s dilemma, to describe the ...

DATE: May 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Council looks to give better direction to staff

In my April editorial, I noted that change is in the air. Durango has a new City Council, with fresh ideas, open minds and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We recently g...

DATE: May 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Respect for ‘Population Bomb’

A friend sent me a copy of Paul Ehrlich’s classic, “The Population Bomb.” I had never read it, although it helped to launch concern about human population in the USA. It was diffe...

DATE: May 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters