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Divorced: America and the homeless. Local solutions need to consider reconciliation on fair terms

Panhandlers aggressively accosting befuddled citizens and tourists. Drunken fire hazards stumbling through our precious forests late at night. Scruffy, dusty, downtown bums with coated tongu...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

You can’t put just one brand on Durango

In my last column, I asked readers what Durango is best known for. As is typical of the independent, individual spirit of Durango folks and visitors alike, I received a variety of responses....

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

For 15 years, my dog, Finn, was a beloved companion, hiking partner

By Andrew Gulliford Special to the Herald It has been enough time now that I can finally write this column without choking up. These are some of the hardest...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Go out at dusk and watch the night sky reveal itself

Greetings, Stargazers. September is a great time of year to stargaze. I enjoy the crisp weather and the fact that it is getting dark a bit earlier than it was only a few weeks ago...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Woman wants equal relationship

DEAR ABBY: I am in a long-distance relationship. I live in Kansas; he’s in Michigan. Because we are 720 miles apart, phone calls, text messages and Skype are vital to the health of our r...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

One word at a time, our understanding of nature is diminishing

Acorn. Blackberry. Bluebell. Heron. Pasture. These words all share something in common. True, they may be things you see when hiking around these parts, but that’s not exactly it....

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Durango Nature Studies

We honor our Direct Support Professionals with DSP Week

As you scrape the molten remains of the hamburgers off the grill, I invite you to join me in a final reflection about the intent of our American Labor Day (beyond beer, brats and buddies, wh...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Will the next financial crisis come as a stranger?

WASHINGTON – The news is better than you might think. A decade after the onset of the 2008-09 global financial crisis – an event usually dated to the bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. – ...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Some states too friendly to livestock

It’s probably not a shock to Americans that Nebraska is a “livestock-friendly” state. Real-life cowboys in the mold of Robert Duvall’s “Lonesome Dove” character “Gus” McCrae and Clint Eastwo...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Take these simple steps to avoid foodborne illness

If 49 percent of adult meals are eaten away from home, according to the National Restaurant Association, what about the other 51 percent? The majority of “stomach flu” is actuall...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Friend continues to make bad choices

DEAR ABBY: I have a friend who’s 22 and has two children, which I helped her to deliver. She is also my neighbor. Since she moved in and divorced her husband, my husband and I have watch...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

The new play is the thing in Four Corners

Recently, Joyce Fontana’s play, “Paindemonium,” got a staged reading as a finalist in the Aloha Theatre’s Original Play Festival XXV. Yes, that means one Hawaiian new play festival has been ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch