Columnists - The Durango Herald

Wolves just do not belong in a settled landscape

I attended the November Durango Wolf Symposium and was disappointed by the orchestrated message that sanitizes the role of the wolf and misconstrues and deliberately omits information regard...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Code office is a ‘fine’ way to report city to itself

On the heels of the column reminding residents and business owners to remove snow from their sidewalks, who fines the city when the city neglects to do the same with city properties? – Sandy...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Son mired in grief after dad’s death

DEAR ABBY: It has been a little over two years since I lost my father to leukemia. The progression of his illness and death was rapid and unforeseen. It has been a tremendous emotional s...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

It’s news vs. the president

Editors and reporters must learn to resist name-calling, shiny objects

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

When alcohol fuels trouble at 36,000 feet

On a recent Delta Air Lines flight from Newark to Minneapolis, a passenger seated near Stephanie Wolkin downed five mini-bottles of vodka in rapid succession. By the time the plane landed, t...

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

New Mexico grapples with air pollutants

We who live in these parts sometimes call it the Four Corners, other times the San Juan Basin or even the Colorado Plateau. It’s reflective of the geographic flexibility of our home region, ...

DATE: Jan 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Rest of state must see our region’s needs

One of the first things I learned when joining the Legislature in 2017 was that the two committees I was most passionate to join, Education and Agriculture, met at the same time. ...

DATE: Jan 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the State House

New year and new focus on North Main District

The Durango Business Improvement District enters 2019 with a new focus on an emerging part of our local economy, the North Main District. BID has several projects in the works for property a...

DATE: Jan 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Wedding planning causes rift

DEAR ABBY: My 38-year-old daughter is being married this summer. This is her first marriage, and we are planning the wedding. She has never planned a big event like this before, and ever...

DATE: Jan 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Through dialogue, we can understand one another

In the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because th...

DATE: Jan 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Racists to the right and anti-Semites to the left

The last five years in Western politics has seen a repeated failure of the barriers that political establishments have tried to throw up against both radical ideas and xenophobic sentiments....

DATE: Jan 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Truly local food leads to a better economic truth

The local foods movement of the last decade or so is evolving in interesting ways. Nationally, farms and food hub (alternative distribution) organizations are surviving and thrivi...

DATE: Jan 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns