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The complicated roles parents play in their kids’ lives

We’re in Grand Junction on an immaculately green, mega soccer-field complex hemmed in by coffee-colored hills. Rose’s team is warming up, which is an elaborate ritual consisting ...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood

The Tourism Effect 4 pillars of a strong tourism community

EDITORâ€™S NOTE: This is Part 1 of a four-part series.Similar to a strong building structure, a community must have four well-supported attributes, or pillars, in order to survive and co...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Hedges: TABOR at 25 is an outdated artifact for tomorrow’s economy

Twenty-five years ago this month, Colorado voters approved adding Article X Section 20 to the state constitution. That same year, Motorola introduced one of the first handheld digital mobile...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Middleton: What is ‘personhood’ doing in the GOP tax plan?

While there are many problems with the Republican tax plan, of greatest concern is that, as currently proposed, anti-abortion “personhood” language could make its way into federal law. ...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

White: Thanksgiving reflections on people and place

Over breakfast each day, my wife and I give thanks for spending another day together in Durango and for the friends and family near and far who enrich our lives. The phrase “in Du...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Grossman: Humans would be wise to heed this warning

In 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists published the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” Twenty-five years later, Most of the Nobel Prize winners then alive and 1,575 senior scien...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

In-law causes rift in family

DEAR ABBY: My husband’s sister “Cassie” and I got along well until we had kids. Our children are months apart in age, and parenting has brought out the differences in our beliefs in a wa...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Revised guidelines sound alarm over high blood pressure

New battle lines have just been drawn in the decades-old public health fight against the leading cause of death and disability in the United States: heart disease. This month, th...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Robinson: Congress should investigate Trump’s alleged misconduct

WASHINGTON – Powerful men with long histories of alleged sexual harassment or assault are finally being held accountable – except one. That would be President Trump. From movie mo...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Man might sleepwalk out of lease

DEAR ABBY: I am a man who owns a large four-bedroom home, and I have two tenants. One pays the rent on time, helps with cleaning and yard work, and is an all-around great roommate. The o...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Egan: We’re with stupid

It would be much easier to sleep at night if you could believe that we’re in such a mess of misinformation simply because Russian agents disseminated inflammatory posts that reached 126 mill...

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

Schultz: ‘Tis never the season for revenge parenting

Ever have one of those moments when you hear a song and it sums up exactly how you’re feeling? It’s as if someone, somewhere out there, heard the call of your heart and set it to ...

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

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday