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Beware: Drip pricing is designed to get you to pay more

The quoted rate for an “amazing” three-bedroom condominium in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, looked too good to be true. The unit, which featured flat-screen TVs, beds with “lush, warm comforters,” a...

DATE: Sep 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Mom sees lonely life ahead for easily wounded daughter

DEAR ABBY: My daughter, “Roxanne,” married right out of high school. Eleven years later, she finally woke up and realized the man of her dreams was a deadbeat. She has now been divorced ...

DATE: Sep 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Trump steamrolls the West

Our air is imperiled by regional methane emissions. Now this administration seems to wants more. But why?

DATE: Sep 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Durango City Council: Our new tax is essential

“Take care of what you have” is the primary message from citizens to the city of Durango during a nearly year-long civic engagement effort. The response is the “Back to Basics” ballot issue ...

DATE: Sep 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Lodgers tax should be used to promote Durango

Tourism is an industry based upon travel and fun, and is an integral part of our economy, both here in Durango and La Plata County, as well as our state and nation. In 2017, the travel indus...

DATE: Sep 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Depression is common, but there is effective treatment

Depression is one of the most significant public health problems facing our nation. From 1992 to 2002, according to the National Institutes of Health, the prevalence of depressio...

DATE: Sep 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Snow – or lack thereof – affects us all

By Nick Keeler Special to the Herald What happens to Southwest Colorado when winter never shows up? Many of us were forced to deal with this reality over the past year ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Four Corners Veterans Stand Down heading to Durango

“Stand down” is a military term that was used when soldiers returned from combat and needed a safe place to recover and regroup before heading back into battle. They were provided warm meals...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Serving Veterans

After remarriage, widow cuts contact with her stepfamily

DEAR ABBY: Our father died nine months after his diagnosis with cancer. Within six months of his funeral, our stepmother of 20-plus years had begun a new relationship. She sold her and D...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Man uses wife’s problems against her

DEAR ABBY: My husband tends to fight dirty, and I don’t know how much more I can take. If we argue about some issue between us, he’ll say something along the lines of, “This is why you h...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Man confesses to long-ago affair with best friend’s wife

DEAR ABBY: I found out a month ago that my wife and my best friend had a relationship 40 years ago when we were in our 20s. My friend hinted about it, so I asked him point blank and he c...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Only the truth can save us now. Let’s try to find it.

The day before Thursday’s endless, grueling, moving, infuriating hearings, which mostly provided an exhibit in the case for the dissolution of our Senate, I argued that we would all probably...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat