Columnists - The Durango Herald

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

Krugman: Nancy Pelosi is a better leader than you realize

Normally, a party that gives away $2 trillion without worrying about where the money will come from can buy itself at least a few votes. But Donald Trump’s tax cut remains remarkably unpopul...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Celebrate master gardener Marye Jackson’s 90th birthday

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

Job loss ends office affair

DEAR ABBY: Back in 2013, a co-worker, “Jamie,” and I fell in love. Both of us were married to other people, but everything felt perfect. It was a feeling I never had for anyone in my lif...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Parker: It’s a dog-eat-dog White House

WASHINGTON — No sooner had I ordered the 2011 book “Less Than Human” for a late-summer read than President Trump called Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog” and a “lowlife.” Those tw...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Girlfriend does not want sex

DEAR ABBY: I’m 22, and my boyfriend wants sex, but I absolutely do not. I don’t feel sexual desire – not at all. I’m asexual, but he refuses to believe me and insists my “past relations ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby