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You may be surprised about how affordable health insurance can be

In addition to raking leaves and collecting brush, a top priority on your fall chore list should be a review of your health insurance. Changes in family size, income, tax credit ...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Kozak: Trigger warnings, censorship and the Fort Lewis College experience [full-length]

In line with the American Academy of University Professors’ statement on trigger warnings ( Over the past five or so years, trigger warnings, whether found on course syllabuses or announced...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

DAC presents exhibit highlighting relationship with Willowtail Springs

Four years ago, the Durango Arts Center formed a partnership with Willowtail Springs, an enchanting nature preserve, bed & breakfast and artist retreat located on a 40-acre parcel just west ...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: View from the Center

Schultz: Those who believe others are not really human

Before I started attending Kent State in the fall of 1975, I was a kid living in small-town Ashtabula, Ohio, on the northern edge of a county by the same name, which had lost 26 servicemen i...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Wife can’t get over past affair

DEAR ABBY: About 12 years ago, I made a terrible mistake and had an affair. My husband loved me enough to forgive me, and our marriage has been fine ever since. The problem i...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Friedman: Folks, we’re home alone

Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson wrote a famous memoir, “Present at the Creation,” about the birth of the post-World War II order — an order whose institutions produced six decades of ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Gerson: Wielding both ignorance and malice, Trump further divides the country

WASHINGTON – It is often difficult to determine if Donald Trump’s offenses against national unity and presidential dignity are motivated by ignorance or malice. His current crusade against s...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Mother regrets allowing abuse

DEAR ABBY: I got pregnant very young and married the father. It was in the 1960s and things were different then. I didn’t realize my husband simply did not like children. I attributed it...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Brooks: Sam Francis predicted the coming war on business

The only time I saw Sam Francis face-to-face – in the Washington Times cafeteria sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s – I thought he was a crank, but it’s clear now that he was at that ...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Man is not father after 8 months

DEAR ABBY: My son and his live-in girlfriend were expecting a baby. My daughter planned the shower, and it was a wonderful eight months of excitement. I was included in the ultrasounds a...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Krugman: Trapped by their own lies

On Saturday, pretty much the entire medical sector — groups representing doctors, hospitals, and insurers – released an extraordinary open letter condemning the Graham-Cassidy health bill. T...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Dionne, Mann, Ornstein: How Trump is helping to save our democracy

We say this even though we believe that Trump poses a genuine danger to our republican institutions and has done enormous damage to our country. He has violated political norms, weakened our...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

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