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Miera y Pacheco was first European to create maps of the Four Corners region

More than 200 years ago, friars Dominguez and Escalante traveled north from Abiquiu, New Mexico, in search of a route to Spanish missions at Monterey in Alta California. Their tr...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Mesa Verde comes to Durango

“If Mohammed will not go to the mountain, the mountain must go to Mohammed.” This idiom is based on a story about the prophet Mohammed, who was asked to show his power by making Mount Safa c...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Constellation Leo can point you toward the southern galaxies

Greetings, Stargazers. The constellation Leo is high in the southern sky. Leo can be found most easily by looking for the backward question mark, called the sickle, with the brigh...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

McLachlan: Progress on clean water, housing, water storage

Two bills I am shepherding through the Legislature will have a positive impact on Southwest Colorado; a third was just signed into law. The first, HB18-1301, will help ensure our...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the State House

Reed: Katzin Music - A legacy of music education

A legacy of music education

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Kofoed: Resolving disputes with collaborative family law

When a couple “lawyer up” during a divorce or custody dispute, it may seem that they’re about to go to war. But you don’t have to re-enact Gettysburg to resolve a domestic dispute...

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

Reyes: Kit Carson co-op sets the record straight

In recent months, the topic of energy providers has emerged as a polarizing issue with information – some accurate, some patently false – being disseminated through public opinion forums and...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Gamer girl gets no respect

DEAR ABBY: I’m an avid video game player. My husband and I bond over playing games, reading and talking about them. In fact, in my spare time, I just earned a master’s degree in video ga...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Good work, Colorado, but we still have a long way to go

On March 21, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill that represents one more step forward in the efforts to recognize people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as equal and contr...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Real food powers your health, not vitamin supplements

Being raised on whole-grain homemade bread, farm fresh eggs, fresh yogurt, garden produce and, of course, raw milk was a matter of logic to my progressive mother who followed 20th-century au...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Schultz: All labor has dignity – MLK and the white working class

America’s white working class has never had a champion more eloquent than the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I don’t mean to suggest that this was his mission, but it was the in...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Connie Schultz

Girl guilty about partying

DEAR ABBY: I am a 17-year-old senior and have been dating the same boy for two years. A month ago, he told me he wanted to break up “because he needed some time to figure out what he wan...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

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