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After injury, kids are the best medicine

Three weeks ago, I got a concussion after losing my footing at the ice rink and falling on my head. I know. Highly cautious middle-aged mothers are not the typical profile for co...

Highways, buildings need adequate funding

Funding Colorado highways, the maintenance of the existing highways and the building of new highways to satisfy the demands created by more people, and the funding of capital construction pr...

Reading Club studies creative women

Reading Club of Durango is having an inspiring year. Unlike other book clubs, they only read one, sometimes two, books together at the beginning of their program year, then prese...

What’s a persona to do?

If you don’t know what kind of traveler you are, don’t worry because plenty of businesses already know that and a whole lot more about you. In fact, you are already labeled, placed in a cate...

Currency

Out with old to make room for new

Action Line Elevator’s halfway service prompts half-baked theories

I’ve been inside the West Building a bunch of times, but I never noticed this until the other day. If you’re in front of the elevator in the lobby, the sign above the door reads Floors 1 thr...

Changing times mean changing home trends

“Home is the nicest word there is.” This quote from Laura Ingalls Wilder sums up our emotional ties to our home, but the truth is our desire for home features continues to change with new ch...

Airlines keep packing on fees for checked bags

British Airways shouldn’t have charged Jim Arnold and his wife $400 for their checked bags. After all, the couple were flying from London to Newark, New Jersey, in premium econom...

Election year

Understand changes as to how Colorado elections are run

U.S. should work to improve voter turnout

As the presidential race heats up, caucuses and primaries will be held across the country and with them, many hot topics will be discussed. Everything from personal attacks by ca...

Peaceful classrooms lead to a more peaceful world

Watch the news, read the news, listen to the news – so much of what I see, read and hear often fills me with apprehension. Unfortunately, as humans, we are wired to focus on what...

Art in Durango brightens Feb. doldrums

Midway through the shortest month of the year and on the downhill slide to spring, February is considered for most to be a quiet, contemplative moment of renewal in the New Year. The major c...