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Here’s to those who help people with disabilities thrive

Sept. 10-16 is National Direct Support Professionals Week. DSP Week celebrates and honors a segment of our workforce that is often invisible to the general public. As I try to do every year ...

DATE: Sep 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Grab friends, family for a golf round this fall

What makes golf a unique sport for the ages? The chance to play the game with friends, perfect strangers and family. I highlight the latter when I ran into a former fellow employ...

DATE: Sep 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Clubhouse Porch

Rubin: Trump didn’t have the nerve to announce DACA repeal

President Donald Trump never manages to take responsibility for any political failure or controversy. We saw this vividly in his handling of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. He co...

DATE: Sep 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Husband’s distress over ex’s bad news perplexes new wife

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my husband for five years. He’s the man of my dreams, and we have a wonderful marriage. Recently, we learned that his ex-wife – to whom he was married f...

DATE: Sep 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Keillor: Federal relief for Minnesota winters? Count me in

The Republic of Texas believes in self-reliance and is suspicious of Washington sticking its big nose in your business. “Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by cre...

DATE: Sep 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Wife concerned about husband talking to neighborhood kids

DEAR ABBY: I have been happily married to “Roger” for 20 years and have two kids still at home. They are pretty independent now, but my husband was very involved in coaching and voluntee...

DATE: Sep 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Douthat: Right wing books, wrong answers

Normal human beings read thrillers or romances on vacation; newspaper columnists assign themselves political polemics. Judged by their covers, the two books that I chose to spoil ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Mother hasn’t told husband he’s not the father

DEAR ABBY: I am a mother of three and happily married to my kids’ father. I am now seven months pregnant with my fourth baby, but this child is not my husband’s. My husband is a loving m...

DATE: Sep 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Santa Rita pit offers ironic scene for lookie-loos

There’s something odd at the construction site at the new Santa Rita Park sewer plant. At the base of the excavated hole was a lone porta-potty. Is this all we get for our money? Can one por...

DATE: Sep 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Library should represent the diversity of its community

Welcome to the new monthly column dedicated to your local libraries! The directors of the Durango Public Library, Ignacio Community Library and the Pine River Library will be reintroducing y...

DATE: Sep 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Shelf Life

Young woman falls for new man during boyfriend’s deployment

DEAR ABBY: I met my boyfriend, “Matt,” when I was a sophomore in high school. We started dating when I was a senior. By then, he was already active-duty military. We weren’t serious at t...

DATE: Sep 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Kristof: When we’re complicit in war crimes

It’s the type of photo that Saudi Arabian and U.S. officials don’t want you to see. It’s of a young Yemeni boy, acutely malnourished like 2 million other children in Yemen – caugh...

DATE: Sep 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

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