Columnists - The Durango Herald

Don’t make these car rental mistakes on your next vacation

Before you click the “book” button on your next car rental, consider what happened to Elizabeth Thorp on a recent trip from her home in Washington to Denver. When Thorp’s airline ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Family casts doubt on couple

DEAR ABBY: I am in my late 20s and dating a man in his mid-30s whom I am crazy about. We have been dating for a year and are starting to discuss marriage and children. He’s kind, hard-wo...

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

The Village at Wolf Creek staggers onward

Are we doomed to the zombie Village at Wolf Creek endlessly stalking the San Juan Mountains? No matter how many times apparently dead, it seemingly staggers back to life, lurchin...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

What is Durango best known for?

What is Durango best known for? More specifically, why do prospective visitors choose Durango over other places they might want to visit? These and questions like these drive destination ma...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Baughman: When it comes to saving horses, we’re all winners

“A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence,” writes Pam Brown. ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Rankin: What’s a teacher to do?

When I went off to college to learn to be a teacher, the responsibility of an elementary school teacher was mostly teaching “reading, ’riting, and ’rithmetic,” the three R’s. Soc...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Joyce Rankin

Elliott: My Durango is your Durango

My twin brother, Evan, and I got flipped off the other day by an elderly gentleman who thought we were in the way of his Durango – and no, he wasn’t driving a Dodge. We laughed a...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Egan: The silent green majority is fed up – and voting

If emotions were water, and you took all the heartbreak felt by the millions who followed the plight of a starving orca whale grieving over her dead calf, you’d have a river the size of the ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Tim Egan

Hickenlooper: The state wants to help even if you’re not Amazon

Barn raising. Nothing else conveys the spirit of the West better than the tradition of joining together to build a neighbor’s barn. There may not be many barn-raisings nowadays, b...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoon

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Judith Reynolds Cartoon

Daughter’s birth returns memories of abuse

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are proud parents of our first child, a girl. Despite his excitement and pride, her arrival has caused his childhood sexual abuse by his stepfather to resurfa...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Dad still doesn’t trust boyfriend

DEAR ABBY: I’m dating my grammar school and high school sweetheart, “Gary.” We’ve known each other since I was 6. (I’m 33 now.) In high school we dated for nine months and were in love, ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby