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If you’re like me, you have started changing your financial habits many times. And if that’s true, you have stopped many times, too. When we paid off $165,000 in debt and saved $...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Money Savvy

Beckwith: Two years in, lopsided progress on the Colorado water plan

On the second anniversary of the release of Colorado’s Water Plan, a few key facts are unchanged: A swelling population is stretching our water supplies, evidence is mounting that climate ch...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

White: Transit changes and aspirations

As we look beyond the holiday season to the New Year, the city of Durango plans a significant operational change for Durango Transit, beginning April 1. Public transportation syst...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Grossman: Reducing the barriers to family planning

There is no good news about male contraceptives yet, but there is much progress in the field of family planning for women. Perhaps the best news is that, globally, more women who...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Sometimes, being heard and understood is all you need

Rosie and I are leaving the Christmas Farmers Market, our bags plump with beets, potatoes and carrots. A raven croaks from a nearby rooftop, eager to be the beneficiary of holiday crumbs. ...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood

Teen mom treated poorly

DEAR ABBY: I’m 18 years old and I have a son who’s 3. I’m still in school and live with my parents. My parents treat me like I’m a nobody and always bring up how I got pregna...

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Program offers more efficient review process for veterans

In November, Veterans Affairs launched Rapid Appeals Modernization Program, or RAMP, with the goal of providing eligible veterans with the earliest possible resolution of their disability co...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Serving Veterans

Friedman: How Trump made Putin’s Christmas

At the end of this banner stock market year, you can bet that major business publications will be naming their investor of the year. You can stop now. I have the winner, and nobody is even c...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Broken ankle changes Euro trip

DEAR ABBY: I had planned a trip to Europe with my friend “Elizabeth,” a friend of hers and Elizabeth’s daughter. The plan was I would share rooms with Elizabeth. We paid for the hotels i...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Dennis Elkins returns for Christmas

Pagosa mounts a comedic ‘Tuna’

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Sexual assault brings up trauma

DEAR ABBY: I am estranged from my sister, whom I love dearly. The reason goes back many years. When I was 13, her husband got me drunk and molested me. While I never forgot, I did repres...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Kristof: Did genocide destroy this Rohingya village?

SOUTHEAST BANGLADESH, NEAR THE MYANMAR BORDER — “Ethnic cleansing” and even “genocide” are antiseptic and abstract terms. What they mean in the flesh is a soldier grabbing a crying baby girl...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

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