Columnists - The Durango Herald

‘Disingenuous to place blame on energy producers versus consumers’

Vermont recently passed a law intended to “fine” oil and gas companies for damages caused by climate change. Vermont is joining more than two dozen cities and states, which are suing Exxon a...

DATE: Jun 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Politics ‘a world of personal attacks, most outrageous lies imaginable’

Here we are at the end of June. Another “high point” in the never-ending election cycle that defines politics in this country. When I was young, elections were fairly limited in their time f...

DATE: Jun 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

It will cost you: ‘Climate change slows economic growth’

Thirty-eight trillion dollars per year! Climate change – especially global warming – slows economic growth around the world. By mid-century, year-on-year economic impacts (compared to a non-...

DATE: Jun 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Learned the hard way clinical depression needs medical care’

Maybe I’m destined for cycles of deep depression. I’ve just come out of another that left me drained of any hope. The new drug cocktail I’m taking now might be the magic bullet. I pray so. T...

DATE: Jun 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Look out for the signs of heat illness

Living in the dry heat of the Southwest is one of the many advantages of Durango and surrounding communities. If you are like me, you enjoy our 300+ days of sunny skies and use your open win...

DATE: Jun 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Celebrate local independent business on Independence Day

As we celebrate the anniversary of our national independence, it’s also a good time to celebrate how local independent businesses contribute to the strength of our communities. In forming a ...

DATE: Jun 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local First

‘By almost any measure, charter schools succeeding’

With all the challenges we face in Colorado, it was truly astonishing to see several Denver-area politicians introduce a bill this past legislative session attempting to tear down one of the...

DATE: Jun 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Truth in West: ‘Many wetlands result of irrigated agriculture’

Imagine Westerners waking up one morning only to discover that many of their most cherished wetlands have dried up, gone. This is not fiction during these times of determining the true value...

DATE: Jun 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Daughter cuts off contact with family

DEAR ABBY: My older daughter, “Brianna,” age 42, does not want anything to do with me or her brother and sister-in-law. She keeps me from my granddaughter, who is 17. I have been divorced si...

DATE: Jun 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

The trouble with tragedy

The first question in the first talkback on the first night of PlayFest was a bruiser. Wednesday night, the playwright, James Anthony Tyler, and the cast of his new play, “Hop Tha A” assembl...

DATE: Jun 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Andy Frasco & The U.N. ‘bring a show’

Andy Frasco has been in the music business most of his life. The Los Angeles native however didn’t start in the biz as a musician, he started on the business side. “Falling in love with the...

DATE: Jun 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

‘Cannot cut our way to better care on backs of hospitals’

Coloradans are proudly among the healthiest and most active people in the nation. But that’s not to say that access to health care, a foundation of community health and wellness, always come...

DATE: Jun 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns