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Contrary to map, Bodo Park isn’t skiing’s newest epicenter

I enjoyed the column about Google Maps showing ponds on Smelter Mountain because Google was using data dating back to the Eisenhower administration. But here’s another mistake: Apparently, B...

DATE: Feb 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Cheap seats get makeover: Is it good news?

The lowly economy-class section is getting an upgrade in 2015. Or a downgrade, depending on your point of view. At least two airlines are unveiling new coach class sections this s...

DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Home sale may be sign of things to come

The big news in Durango real estate last week was the demolition of a home in Hillcrest at 205 Hillcrest Drive. This is news because the home was listed for $585,000, and it sold...

DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

United Way provides health care with teeth

When you have a gap in your mouth because of missing teeth, it can be tricky to chew. When there is a gap in your health care, it can be tricky to stay well. There certainly has ...

DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

State of the county

Financial sustainability is focus for 2015

DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

‘Buy campaign’ reflected both desperation and hope

As Durango and America entered the 1930s, hard times had arrived in some places and were just over the horizon for the whole country. An editorial in the Durango Herald Democrat (Oct. 31, 19...

DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Life is equal parts precious, out of our control

I am drinking coffee, reading the paper and fielding interruptions from the kids in a parody of my own routine morning ordinariness when my phone rings. It is my friend Stephanie, whom I’ve ...

DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood

Hair today, gone tomorrow for Locks of Love

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then Diana Yellow is beautiful indeed. The Fort Lewis College senior shaved her head at the beginning of January to show support for fello...

DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Here’s what you need to know about Choice Card

We have received many calls from veterans regarding the Veterans Choice Card they recently received in the mail from the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Here are some quic...

DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Serving Veterans

Lyons flood leads to inspired songwriting

In 2013, a flood in Lyons destroyed businesses, wrecked homes and drastically changed residents’ lives. Musician Terry Kishiyama’s house was spared, but the bridge to his home wa...

DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Taxing carbon would help you, environment

Should we each pay a carbon tax, a fee assessed on the relative carbon content – and therefore the pollution potential – of coal, oil and natural gas? If so, how would such a tax help the en...

DATE: Jan 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Your Ecological House

Lawmakers busy with start of new session

It has been a very busy time since the election, Nov. 4. I had to be in Denver on the night of Nov. 5 for a meeting with the house Republican Caucus and attended full-day legislat...

DATE: Jan 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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