Columnists - The Durango Herald

Embracing lived experience: A win-win for everyone

Our Own Lives is a new nonprofit in Southwest Colorado and will serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with a wide array of supports. Formerly the direct service arm o...

DATE: Jun 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Narrowing and simplifying in our later years

A dear friend I’ve known for 30 years has moved to Santa Fe and now no longer answers his phone. This is the only way I have to connect with him, and now what? His partner says it’s just too...

DATE: Jun 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

Salt Lake City bluegrass comes to Durango

Many bluegrass bands are born from a bluegrass pick. It’s a story this column has referenced in the past: the “pick” being an informal collection of musicians playing an even less formal con...

DATE: Jun 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Despite girlfriend, man remains married

DEAR ABBY: I have been with my partner, “Hank,” for 25 years, but although he is legally separated, he is still married. We have lived together for 24 of these 25 years. He has two adult chi...

DATE: Jun 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Ex still devastated by betrayal

DEAR ABBY: I still obsess over my first love, even though we broke up 21 years ago. We grew up in a poor mill town, where I was a frustrated, mediocre athlete. She was a cheerleader. We shar...

DATE: Jun 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

For your health, better take this dining advice

Dear Action Line: It occurred to me, as I recently browsed another city’s paper, that The Durango Herald used to publish health department inspection grades for restaurants. Helpful stuf...

DATE: Jun 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Spring trips anywhere prepare for the worst

Bring enough gear for any weather in a fly fishing trip

DATE: Jun 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘More difficult to be Jewish than ever before’

My friends in Durango ask me what it’s like to be Jewish. I explain about growing up in Kansas City, where I didn’t think I was different In kindergarten, a classmate called me a dirty Jew, ...

DATE: Jun 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Citizenship Act’s most important aspect – right to vote’ for Native Americans

In 1948, after serving in World War II, Miguel Trujillo from Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico entered the Valencia County Courthouse to register to vote. He was turned down even though he had ser...

DATE: Jun 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Boyfriend kept kids’ ages secret

DEAR ABBY: I have been dating my man for seven years. When we got serious, he told me he had kids. Because we are seniors, I assumed his kids were adults. I recently found out that the kids ...

DATE: May 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

‘Wildlife not private property of lion, bobcat trophy hunters’

Andrew Carpenter (“Hunting, a valuable tool in managing lions” on May 14) believes Coloradans aren’t smart enough to have an opinion about recreational killing of mountain lions or bobcats i...

DATE: May 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Featured clinic programs at La Plata County Public Health Department

The La Plata County Public Health Department’s clinic offers a variety of services and programs to promote the health of our community regardless of whether you have insurance, legal status ...

DATE: May 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Creating Community