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The Green Side of Life

After a 5 and a 6 the first two weeks of the regular season, a Steelers fan from Bayfield was as comfortable in Week 3 as a steel worker in Carolina. Doug Carman, aka steeler75, s...

Sink your teeth into Apple Days

Freeze watch: Day 3 of autumn and still nothing. Not even a frost. Yes, the Durango area has received lots of rain – and mud, and rocks, and floating trash cans – but nights have...

These zombies are everywhere – and nowhere

Two young women sat down at the table next to mine in a restaurant. They began to talk, then one of them made the “wait-a-minute” gesture with her index finger. She pulled her ce...

If you see a mountain lion, don’t act like prey

By Gary Skiba La Plata County Living with Wildlife Board Got deer? Most of us do, and where there are deer, there are almost always mountain lions in the vicinity. ...

Cogs, gears and goggles abound

Getting a jump on Snowdown 2015, Durango Friends of the Arts chose steampunk as its theme for its 2014 Luncheon and Fashion Show. It was a good education and a chance to create their outfits...

Living on the Waiver Wire

Hello, Week 4 of the NFL. So long, for one week, to six NFL teams. Bye weeks always are one of the trickiest challenges to navigate during a fantasy football season. This week, pl...

Garnier masters multidimensional manipulation

Gallic Books in London has translated another of Pascal Garnier’s little gems of noir fiction entitled Moon in a Dead Eye. It is a wonderfully eerie and darkly humorous account of the first ...

Action Line Health officials eschew any ideas of prairie dog platter

Could the next “Men Who Grill” feature prairie dogs as the main course? Being a localvore, I thought perhaps our free-range prairie dogs might be delicious if properly seasoned. There are ma...

1031 exchanges can be profitable for investors

The Internal Revenue Service provides a special provision for real estate investors called Internal Revenue Code 1031 exchanges. These exchanges allow an investor to sell one investment prop...

Parenting like being life coach to very small people

We’re returning from an afternoon at the river. Col is struggling to carry out our deflated, unwieldy inner tube, unfurling itself from his arms like an escaping octopus. Col exhales the sig...

A walk in Kiwi land

Durango woman making waves – and footprints – with upcoming 1,800-mile trek

Should buying plane tickets be like buying cars?

When Loren Witkin says that he shopped around for a new car, you can take him at his word. Witkin combed through his local newspaper, consulted the Kelley Blue Book and clicked on...