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Escaping from diet overwhelm

Being overwhelmed with diets and nutrition is all too common. The first popular mainstream diet formed in 1863 when William Banting created a detailed brochure as to how a low-carbohydrate, ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Life changes after man reveals secret

Dear Abby: I am a woman in my 30s working two jobs to make ends meet after a divorce. A few months ago, I met a nice gentleman who has been understanding about my situation and crazy hou...

DATE: Apr 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Casual Fridays are N.M.’s ska historians

Las Cruces, New Mexico, may sound like an unlikely place for a ska music scene, but it’s been home to at least two ska bands that have properly represented the music. One band is ...

DATE: Apr 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Public health planning: Using science and action to improve health

This year’s theme for National Public Heath Week occurring Monday through Friday is “Creating the Healthiest Nation: For Science. For Action. For Health.” San Juan Basin Public H...

DATE: Apr 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Conspiracy theories are all wet about dry creek

The Animas River is rising, the San Juan Basin’s snowpack is 160 percent of normal and the temperatures have been warm. So why is there no water in Junction Creek? Where is all the water fro...

DATE: Apr 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Time takes toll on husband’s interest

Dear Abby: I have been with my husband for 20 years. I’m 43, and he’s 63. Our sex life has died. He is no longer attracted to me, and he has let me know it. His love is physi...

DATE: Apr 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

We’ve all just made fools of ourselves – again

“You have a president who, in my opinion, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government, a foreign power, to undermine and influence our el...

DATE: Mar 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

What happens when your aircraft is grounded

To hear travelers like Dani Robin talk about it, the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ground the Boeing 737 Max recently caused a minimum of disruptions to air travel. She never...

DATE: Mar 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Everyone wins with full-day K

Full-day kindergarten may now become a reality in Colorado. The bill I am running with Rep. Jim Wilson and Sen. Jeff Bridges fulfills a promise Colorado made to voters more than 1...

DATE: Mar 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the State House

Loving Israel to death

Trump and Congress are on a collision course<br/>with a Jewish democracy

DATE: Mar 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Leadership La Plata: It’s worth it

While we have a lot of great programs at the Durango Chamber of Commerce, one of the most revered – and valuable to people who want to be involved in the community – is Leadership La Plata. ...

DATE: Mar 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Chamber

Horoscope

ARIES (March 21 to April 19): Hold the phone! For the next six weeks, you will be charged up and forceful in all your communications with others. You also will be busier! TAURUS (...

DATE: Mar 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Columnists