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In-laws exclude spouses from family text chain

DEAR ABBY: I recently married and was excited to be part of my husband’s family. My own siblings and I are not particularly close. During COVID-19, one of my husband’s sisters started a fami...

DATE: Mar 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

‘When can we respect dignity, wishes of aged, ill?’

Dr. Thomas J. Perille’s guest column on Feb. 23 in The Durango Herald, previously published in The Colorado Sun, is wrong on so many counts. He talks about Senate Bill 068, currently in the ...

DATE: Mar 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Long nights, in-depth debate, good legislation for Colorado’

We are a third of the way through our time in the Legislature this year, and I anticipate the next two-thirds will consist of long nights, in-depth debate, dozens of meetings and some good l...

DATE: Mar 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Storm clouds and sun with Southwest Civic Winds

Last Sunday, the Southwest Civic Winds musically crashed storm clouds together and brought out the sun. So much energy went into the winter concert, the first of four this year, the audience...

DATE: Feb 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

‘Mixed in Mancos’ bringing new energy

Erik Nordstrom is a champion of the regional music scene. He’s played scores of shows around the area as a member of bands Lawn Chair Kings and Farmington Hill, and if he’s not playing with ...

DATE: Feb 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

House Bill 1296 ‘a lot of power to put in hands of record keepers’

There’s a new buzzword in Colorado politics: vexatious. If that word wasn’t on your 2024 bingo card, join the club. Yet here we are, so let’s go down the rabbit hole of House Bill 1296, a bi...

DATE: Feb 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Rosa Parks ‘had all the time in the world to talk’

It was 2 p.m. on a recent Sunday in the western Colorado town of Paonia, population 1,500. Not an ideal time to gather a crowd to meet the famous Rosa Parks, the woman who kicked off the mod...

DATE: Feb 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Toxic beauty standards can be passed down

When my best friend and I lived together 13 years ago, our shared bathroom had a handful of products: soap, tanning lotion, deodorant, toothpaste, potpourri and maybe, occasionally, a face c...

DATE: Feb 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Disinformation, plain old lies take place of facts, data’

In any community, there always have been, and always will be, areas of conflict and disagreement. These disputes have gotten deeper in the last dozen years or so. As we go through rapid chan...

DATE: Feb 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Relatives can’t stomach another visit

DEAR ABBY: We have grown children and a grandchild who live several states away. The problem is, we don’t enjoy visiting them. Our son’s wife has an eating disorder. She’s obsessed with what...

DATE: Feb 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Reducing the barriers to pet adoption

Over time, the adoption process for pets has become more and more complex. Lengthy and often arduous applications, home visits, reference checks and inquiries with landlords all contribute t...

DATE: Feb 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: From the Humane Society

‘Pain a minor reason patients choose PAS’

Compassion for individuals confronting a terminal illness drove the efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide, or PAS (also known as medical aid in dying), in Colorado in 2016. Compassi...

DATE: Feb 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion