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Schultheis: Where is our century’s Gen. Smedley Butler?

On Sept. 1, 1933, a bagman for some of America’s biggest bankers and business executives met with retired Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler in a Newark, New Jersey, hotel room. The ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Abusive adoptive mother has no right to daughter’s money

DEAR ABBY: I need your advice. I am 41 years old and was adopted at birth. I was raised by an unloving woman who was emotionally, verbally and physically abusive. I persevered, worked ha...

DATE: Aug 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

When is it OK to return to a site of disaster?

Bad things can happen to good places. Like New Orleans, a city forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Or Alabama’s Gulf Coast, peppered by oil pellets after the Deepwater H...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Have you considered adding more purpose to your giving?

As my days seem to get busier at a steady rate, I find myself asking more frequently, “What is the purpose of what I am doing right now?” Answering this question from time to tim...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Patient Advocates can help with veterans’ needs

The Veterans’ Complaint Hotline is now live. President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of enacting a veterans’ complaint hotline has officially launched. The phone number is (855) 948-2311. ...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Serving Veterans

How to fish with a Wild Bunch

I used to refer to my daughter’s children as the “World’s Cutest and Smartest Grandchildren.” However, I was called to task by other grandparents who thought their grandchildren were the “Wo...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Flies & Lies

This summer, this moment in time for Verlena

I caught up with Verlena Collentine recently to check in and see how she’s doing. She is the woman who has terminal ovarian cancer and has stopped all medical intervention as of ...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

Sometimes, autopsies aren’t what people want

Sarah Traynor, 7 years old and mildly autistic, was found hanging by a jump rope attached to the top bar of a swing set in her backyard. The Supreme Court of Victoria at Melbourn...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Coroner's Report

Tipton: Securing our nation at home and abroad

The United States has stood strong for 241 years. Through our commitment to a strong national defense, we have been able to protect our interests at home and abroad. Unfortunately, as our in...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Woman feels steamrollered by in-laws in her own home

DEAR ABBY: My in-laws live in an apartment above our garage. It wasn’t my idea. It was a compromise with my husband. They now want to move Grandma into a trailer in our backy...

DATE: Aug 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Samuelson: Trump’s need to dominate news cycle says it all

WASHINGTON — No one is working harder for the impeachment of Donald Trump than Donald Trump. If we have learned anything about this president, it is that he has a compulsion to b...

DATE: Aug 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Friedman: Not all climate shifts concern the weather

I have a simple view of governing today: We are in the middle of not one but three climate changes at once to which government must help citizens respond. And Donald Trump doesn’t have a clu...

DATE: Aug 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

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