Columnists - The Durango Herald

Civic center ‘potentially unnecessary, massive expense’

I was dismayed by The Durango Herald’s Feb. 16 article about the city seeking to extend the 2005 sales tax in order to fund, in part, the construction of new city and police department offic...

DATE: Mar 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Wolverines on deck for Reintroduction

Colorado recently unveiled plans to move forward with the restoration of another species eliminated from the state in the 1900s, the wolverine. The effort is spearheaded by Colorado Parks an...

DATE: Mar 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Relative offended by change of wedding plans

DEAR ABBY: A relative is getting married, and the RSVP date has passed. It was announced many months ago and was to be a big, formal church wedding, with eight or nine groomsmen and bridesma...

DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Estranged daughter out of the loop

DEAR ABBY: Three years ago, our 40-year-old daughter, “Tanya,” suddenly accused me of abusing her during her childhood. She also accused my husband, her dad, of enabling this abuse. Abby, th...

DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Get rewarded this spring for shopping local

The Durango Business Improvement District is proud to announce its next shop local promotion – Spring Rewards. This promotion incentivizes and rewards you for shopping locally this spring. S...

DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Wolves ‘drugged, blindfolded, collared, moved to remote land’

What was it like for 10 captured Oregon wolves when Colorado Parks and Wildlife opened their crates on a December day last year? The wolves had been chased by helicopter, drugged, blindfolde...

DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Wolves ‘drugged, blindfolded, collared, moved to remote land’

What was it like for 10 captured Oregon wolves when Colorado Parks and Wildlife opened their crates on a December day last year? The wolves had been chased by helicopter, drugged, blindfolde...

DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Public will be left in dark around legislation that affects them’

Irony is the juxtaposition of one conceptual proposition with a directly contrary reality, like a “vegetarian butcher” or something that’s “seriously funny.” Or the swift enactment – during ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Abusive mom continues to manipulate

DEAR ABBY: I’m an only child (in my 30s now) who was raised by an emotionally and verbally abusive mother. When I wasn’t her whipping post, I was an emotional crutch for her and had to assum...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Discovery derails couple’s marriage

DEAR ABBY: I have known my husband for 10 years. We have been married for four. We love each other very much, but I did something that has caused him to no longer trust me, and he won’t forg...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Lessons from past still ring true

DEAR ABBY: Years ago, I sat over lunch, reading your mom’s “Definition of Maturity.” It was shortly after my dad died, and reading it made me realize how lucky I had been. Those were all les...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Telling our own stories

If you want to see what community building really looks like, attend a performance of Raven Narratives. Last weekend in Cortez and Durango, Raven Narratives co-founders Sarah Syverson and To...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch