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High school is hardest after being accepted to college

As the spring season rolls around at Durango High School and college acceptance letters are arriving at students’ doorsteps, seniors are facing the most challenging part of their high school...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Students on Point

Publicity stunts do not add up to sound policy

Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal? Back in December, President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufactu...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Why the natural gas industry opposes the BLM’s new “methane rule.”

At the end of 2016, the Bureau of Land Management adopted a controversial new rule, “Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation,” also known as the “methane...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Treat testing season like a marathon, not a sprint

For school-age students, it’s that time of year again ... testing season. Seemingly every other week in the spring, high-schoolers in Durango and across the country are sitting down for anot...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: On Education

Children should expect to have clean water at school

Lead can seriously change the trajectory of a child’s life. Studies show that lead is never safe in a child’s body. Exposure can seriously affect a child’s IQ, attention span and create nume...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From the State House

Disabilities services in Colorado facing a perfect storm

The idea of a “perfect storm” is that in rare circumstances, a combination of independent factors comes together in such a way to create a calamity far worse than the sum of its parts. In fa...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Showing up is what gets the work done

This being the last column I have the privilege to write for The Durango Herald, there’s a certain pressure I feel to pen a magnum opus of sorts. Let me pour some cold water on th...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Letting go of fear and living in Love

For those of us in churches that follow a liturgical calendar, the celebration of Holy Week is here. It began with Palm Sunday, the day Christians remember Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem at Pas...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Mired in the present, U.S. will miss clean energy future

When Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, America had almost no paved roads outside the cities. One of the early owners’ biggest headaches was tires punctured by horseshoe nails left o...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

The secret to $100 grocery budget revealed

My family of three eats delicious, healthy meals on a grocery budget of $100 a week, with enough leftovers for lunch. How do we do it? The secret is really quite simple, and you can do it, t...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Money Savvy

Dear Abby: Mother can give away baby clothes or donate for tax break

DEAR ABBY: My friend recently had a baby and could really use my daughter’s old clothes, as our girls are only a year apart and I have saved practically everything. But it will cost a co...

DATE: Apr 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Dear Abby: Eligible woman bemoans the hordes of clueless men

DEAR ABBY: Could you explain to me why, as a species, men are so blind and stupid? There are millions of smart, funny, sweet, attractive – even sexy – eligible women to whom men do not g...

DATE: Apr 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.