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Family members struggle to reunite

DEAR ABBY: A year ago, my sister “Jan” started dating this guy, “Miles,” who soon moved in with her. Everyone in our family was welcoming until she started telling us their problems. We ...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Time for new city funding to keep the paint fresh

Last November our ballots contained several asks for tax hikes, both local and state. In Durango, Ballot Question 2A combined property and sales tax increases to fund fire and res...

DATE: Feb 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Afrobeatniks release new album ‘Wontanara’

Musicians get bitten by the bug. That bug being one particular genre or style that soon takes over, and from that point forward your musical trajectory goes in the direction of whatever genr...

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Anti-Semitism is like cancer in the Islamic world

NEW YORK – In recent weeks, attention has focused on two freshman Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both of whom are Muslim and have made critical statements abou...

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Fareed Zakaria

Five immunity boosters to add to your diet

Sometimes in the winter it feels like coughing, scratchy throats and runny noses are just a part of daily life. I don’t give financial advice, but my goal is to share how the foods you eat ...

DATE: Feb 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Grandma caught in middle of feud

DEAR ABBY: I’m close to 70 and have three grown children. I’ve been a widow for 15 years. My oldest son, age 45, has pretty much cut himself off from our fairly close family. His reason:...

DATE: Feb 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

How the American left fell in love with elitism

Over the past generation, global capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in human poverty in history. Over the past 10 years, American capitalism has produced 20 million ne...

DATE: Feb 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

How words become weapons, forms of cowardice

You could always slight the very rich by calling them moneybags, robber barons, fat cats or plutocrats. Billionaire was a neutral word, grounded in math: Such a person could spend...

DATE: Feb 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

Roads could be fixed with tax on trikes, skateboards

What does the upcoming sales-tax hike really mean? It’s supposed to be for road repairs. Voters rightly didn’t trust the City Council in the last election, so should we ever? Are we voting f...

DATE: Feb 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Action Line

New mom can’t let go of tragic story

DEAR ABBY: I recently had a baby, and I have been diagnosed as having postpartum depression. I have tried all of the prescribed medications but took myself off them because of the side e...

DATE: Feb 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Iran has languished in darkness for 40 long years

From its beginning 40 years ago this week, the Islamic Republic of Iran has enjoyed the generous benefit of the doubt from credulous observers in the West. History hasn’t been kin...

DATE: Feb 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Land conservation overcomes congressional gridlock

Fans of Utah’s spectacular redrock country can savor congressional action this week that advanced protections for a million acres of the incomparable San Rafael Swell, and one of the Colorad...

DATE: Feb 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green