Columnists - The Durango Herald

You’re not being gaslighted: Parkers must pay up

Dear Action Line: What’s up with the parking lot behind the Gaslight theater? This lot has not been charging for over a year and suddenly everyone is getting a $60 ticket. No notice or w...

DATE: Jul 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Man has long endured insults from wife

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 50-year-old man, married for 17 years with two kids. I have a mostly good marriage, but I have been noticing things that bother me. Almost daily, my wife seems to insult me ...

DATE: Jul 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Libraries can be a valuable buttress during life’s storms

Recently, a friend of mine gave a motivational speech in which she compared what bison (American Buffalo) do and what cattle do when they sense a storm approaching. She explained that when s...

DATE: Jul 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Shelf Life

‘Joys of long marriage how personal, pragmatic moosh together’

My husband, Dan Collins, died this month because of COVID-19 and pneumonia. By the time he passed, Dan had been sedated for a while, and there’s a small controversy over what was said the la...

DATE: Jul 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Mom uses social media to disparage kids

DEAR ABBY: My mother is toxic. She had a terrible childhood, and she takes it out on me and my younger siblings. I live far away; they live in the same town as she does. If they don’t drop e...

DATE: Jul 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Bar D Wranglers serve up music, comedy

June 2, 1969, was a historic day in Durango, as it was the start of one of the longest running restaurants and shows in Durango. That’s the day the Bar D Chuckwagon opened its doors north of...

DATE: Jul 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Mountain bikes and wilderness: ‘Must we get everything in the outdoors?’

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.” — Wallace Stegner The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, wa...

DATE: Jul 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Room assignments unclear for ‘throuple’

DEAR ABBY: My 25-year-old son lives with his two girlfriends, who are also romantically involved with each other. They share a single bedroom. One of them has a baby due this week, and the o...

DATE: Jul 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Action Line’s e-bike trail primer

Dear Action Line: I am ecstatic to finally get an e-bike and continue to ride all the beautiful trails in Durango. But I was sadly disappointed that I cannot actually ride my pedal-assis...

DATE: Jul 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

No time can mean the best time

Time in rodeo and life is what you make of it

DATE: Jul 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Far better ways to gather, sort’ mustangs

An enduring symbol, the mustang, symbolizes the largely mythological vision of the West as a place that is wild and free, similar to the eagle and the bison. The word comes from the Spanish ...

DATE: Jul 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Dad’s new wife offers sketchy advice

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I had a baby right around the time my father remarried. I didn’t know my new stepmother very well when she started giving me parenting advice. The issue is, her con...

DATE: Jul 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby