Columnists - The Durango Herald

Schools to institute new safety procedures for visitor entry

Given tragic occurrences across our country, school safety continues to be at the forefront of community concerns. While some incidents are committed by students, others have bee...

DATE: Oct 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Durango School News

Elizabeth Warren plays Trump’s game – and loses

A lot of smart people believe that Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts, is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2020. So when she released a video featur...

DATE: Oct 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Wife irked at man’s Facebook friends

DEAR ABBY: My husband has an extensive sexual history. He has had sex with more than 80 partners. All the encounters were when he was in high school and in his early 20s. Most were one-n...

DATE: Oct 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Stop wearing out your snooze button

Did you press the snooze button this morning ... maybe even more than once? Maybe you had time to sleep in or just felt so tired and “out of it” that you couldn’t believe it was ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Solving climate change may well be impossible

WASHINGTON – If there were any doubt before, there should be none now. “Solving” the global climate change problem may be humankind’s mission impossible. That’s the gist of the latest report...

DATE: Oct 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

I was supposed to...?

It seems like I spend a lot of time trying to remember what it is that I was supposed to do. I’ve tried writing things down in a little “tally book,” which helps, as long as I can remember w...

DATE: Oct 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Watch Yore Topknot

Feminism – that’s right – might save us after all

I disagree with academic feminism a lot but it is right about the big thing. For thousands of years, social thinking has been dominated by men who saw life as a place where warrio...

DATE: Oct 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Bi-color tank isn’t an accent wall for upscale north Main

What’s up with the water tank near Animas Mountain? The tank used to be a muted green, which wasn’t very visible. Now it’s is being repainted a tannish-dull yellow color that makes it an eye...

DATE: Oct 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Military husband returns home only to ship out with his mom

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “John,” recently returned from his fourth Middle East tour after having been gone for a year. As soon as he got back, his mother invited him and his two sisters on...

DATE: Oct 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Motorists, take care

Mike Smedley wrote a Durango Herald article in August titled “Pushy pedestrians put the cross in crosswalk,” where he describes the perils that drivers face when traveling the streets of Col...

DATE: Oct 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: On the Law

Colombia has lessons on retaking extreme center

Last week I interviewed Colombian President Iván Duque, who took office in August and calls himself a man of the “extreme center.” In an era of rising populism, I asked, how should politicia...

DATE: Oct 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Vote No on 2; city can afford new police station now

The upcoming election is not, as our city officials claim, about whether our community supports our police department. The facts below show there is ample money for a new police station – wi...

DATE: Oct 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns