Columnists - The Durango Herald

Town halls for Dem ticket: ‘Think the Super Bowl with Taylor Swift in stands’

Mark my words: Joe Biden is going to be out of the 2024 presidential race. Whether he is ready to admit it or not. His pleas to congressional Democrats for support will not unite the party b...

DATE: Jul 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Elder Grown goes back to summer camp

Members of local band Elder Grown are moving on to bigger scenes. They aren’t leaving the band, but they are looking for larger music communities. One of those members is saxophone player Sa...

DATE: Jul 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Handsy male friends thumb noses at fiance

DEAR ABBY: My fiancee has a number of male friends she has known for years. One of them stops off at her work, brings food and gifts, and may go out with her after hours. Another called her ...

DATE: Jul 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Ditch the evening snacks to sleep better and feel your best

Do you know that feeling? The one where you’ve finished a healthy dinner and then thought to yourself, “I need a snack.” Then, before you know it, the entire bag of chips or carton of ice cr...

DATE: Jul 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Wannabe Denver TV viewers seem ‘Designated’ to suffer

Dear Action Line: Any news why we’ve lost Denver TV again? Both the Fox (KDVR 31) and ABC (KMGH 17) affiliates are gone from DirecTV offerings. So sad. It seems like so many people worke...

DATE: Jul 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

SetSetSet, or hook setting, is last part of landing fish

Six years ago, I looked it up, I wrote a column about setting the hook when fly fishing. I need to remind myself every time I’m on the water how to correctly set a hook, I thought maybe you ...

DATE: Jul 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

What are the best baseball films? Connie Mack coaches weigh in

Baseball on the big screen has made for some great and not so great moments

DATE: Jul 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Truest form of patriotism, a love that isn’t complacent’

Patriotism did not bring my grandfather to the Army recruiter’s office in 1956. Poverty did. A youth spent picking cotton and working odd jobs to help feed his family meant that he was a goo...

DATE: Jul 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Baby-boomer cohorts lazy about issues we cared so passionately about’

I will forever be grateful to our former public defender, a man I greatly admire, a man who helped change my life for the better. Back in the late 1980s, I taught a class at Durango High Sch...

DATE: Jul 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Rooted in long-standing traditions of hunting, fishing, exploring wild places’

As a proud member of the Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and a proponent of the Sportsmen for the Dolores coalition, I am writing to voice my strong support for the designa...

DATE: Jul 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Aging father has made plans for assets

DEAR ABBY: I'm a single retired grandfather in the South. My daughter, 50, has hitched her wagon to an alcoholic. She’s circling the drain and going down with him. My grandsons are adults an...

DATE: Jul 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Grandma feels slighted by stolen nickname

DEAR ABBY: We have five grandchildren. All but one call me MeeMaw. I’ve been MeeMaw since my first grandchild was born 15 years ago. Four years ago, our third grandchild was born, and the fo...

DATE: Jul 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby