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Wherever you are today, gives thanks and smile

I had a date on Tuesday night. Nice dinner, warm atmosphere, engaging conversation. It wasn’t our first, but it has been a while since we just sat and talked, so it was nice to just reconnec...

Honor fearless protectors of our land

What does it mean to give thanks? I believe that the act of giving thanks is an act of sincere humility, an expression of vulnerability, connectedness and need. We expr...

The Green Side of Life

Fourteen out of 15? Oooo, la, la! Real original. There were nine Gridiron Green contestants that finished one pick from the perfect Week 12 result. Was it ...

Organization, persistence key in goal setting

My business partner, George Huang, and I have been working for months to develop and start a new business. One of our most difficult tasks has been setting our short-term business goals to s...

Marijuana shops

Safety, fairness require changes to laws

Having the backs of our first responders

Tragedy may have been the impetus for the founding of the 100 Club, but it has gone on to help provide bright futures. Founded in 1974 after a fire that took out six historic buil...

Marwood pens pair of perfectly creepy books

The Killer Next Door is Alex Marwood’s second published novel; her first, The Wicked Girls, I reviewed in July 2013 along with two other debut books I lumped together as being only for reade...

Quarantines used to protect against disease

One joke told many times in the emergency room goes something like this: ER doc to patient: “Sir, you seem to be pretty sick – headache, low fever, chills, malaise, nausea, aches ...

Durangoans help Nepali village

Locals see past and push for future

Mall might just qualify as next Wilderness Study Area

First, the Durango Mall didn’t want Mercury as neighbors. Now, it doesn’t want a hotel built next door. Could the mall petition itself to become a federally protected Wilderness Study Area? ...

Christmas-tree traditions have Victorian roots

By Ruth Lambert San Juan Mountains Association With the founding of Animas City (1876) and Durango (1881), local residents often celebrated Christmas holiday traditions...

Galilean moons of Jupiter offer regular eclipses

Greetings, stargazers. I hope you enjoyed the recent great pictures from comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (or 67P for short) as much as I did. Launched in 2004 by the European Space ...