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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

Jan. 29 is National Plan for Vacation Day

When was the last time you took a vacation? If you can’t recall, you’re likely part of the majority of Americans (52 percent) who forfeit well-deserved time off from work each year. ...

DATE: Jan 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Two brandies, both alike in dignity

In the depths of winter, most of us could use something a little different, perhaps something warmer to melt the frost within us. Enter Cognac and Armagnac. Both spirits are brand...

DATE: Jan 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Good News

Teen lets her temper spoil fun

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 15-year-old girl. I’m a fun person to be with, and I love spending time with my friends and family. But one thing sometimes ruins it. I have a bit of a temper and some a...

DATE: Jan 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

We need to make our free markets moral again

Suddenly economic populism is all the rage. In his now famous monologue on Fox News, Tucker Carlson argued that American elites are using ruthless market forces to enrich themselv...

DATE: Jan 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

This is what actual border security looks like

ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER – Other than the Korean Peninsula’s DMZ, there’s probably no border in the world as fraught with the potential for sudden violence as this one, known locally as ...

DATE: Jan 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns