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Master your blood sugar: The key to weight loss and health

Imagine a simple change in your diet that could help you lose weight, curb cravings and boost your energy, all while protecting your long-term health. The secret lies in controlling your blo...

DATE: Sep 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Some conversations can look like interrogations

DEAR ABBY: I appreciate you offering your booklet “How to Be Popular” to people who are uncomfortable or uncertain in social situations. I don’t know if these tips are included, but here’s w...

DATE: Sep 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Colorado’s foster kids are still worth fighting for, all these decades later

All these decades later, I can still remember the outrage I felt the first time I sat in a Colorado courtroom. I watched everyone from the attorney to the social worker to the judge ignore w...

DATE: Sep 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Securing San Juan stewards

With school back in action, and students returning to classrooms for the fall semester, SJMA will be joining right alongside them. Education staff look forward to teaching local students abo...

DATE: Sep 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Dark thoughts about sunflowers brought to light

Dear Action Line: A police officer came to my door recently and issued me a warning regarding the sunflowers along the sidewalk in front of my home. She explained that someone had filed ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

More Hispanics than ever before are starting small businesses across America

Each year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Americans celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month as a time to recognize the many contributions, diverse cultures and extensive histories of the Hispan...

DATE: Sep 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Protect the Dolores River Canyon Country to preserve the legacy of the Ute Mountain Ute

With its sweeping vistas and rugged terrain, the Dolores River Canyon Country is more than just a breathtaking landscape. To the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, this land represents a living tapestr...

DATE: Sep 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A look at some of the tricks used by fraudsters

I think I am essentially an optimist about humanity. Most people are basically good; even when we do a bad thing, it’s either a mistake that we can learn from, or we are doing it for what we...

DATE: Sep 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

America’s nuclear ‘downwinders’ deserve justice

It’s been nearly 80 years since the first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico. Communities have been reeling ever since. For generations, Americans who live “downwind” of nuclear testing an...

DATE: Sep 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

BID’s position on Downtown’s Next Step

The Durango Business Improvement District has been involved in conversations about Downtown’s Next Step for over two years. It is BID’s job to evaluate the pros and cons for anything and eve...

DATE: Sep 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Country rock with Bo DePeña

He grew up by the Rio Grande, and now he sometimes plays music by the Rio Grande. Where he grew up, and where he plays music by that river are hundreds of miles apart. That’s the story for B...

DATE: Sep 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Chip sealing not appealing

Those of us who live in Durango West and beyond are not happy (Bayfieldians, too). During the month of August we had to endure the chip sealing road project on U.S. Highway 160 west. Who th...

DATE: Sep 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns