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‘Caught in complex legal limbo while serving plates on Main Avenue’

The U.S. immigration system facilitates the exploitation of the poor, the traumatized and the displaced. I was recently reminded of this fact when a young migrant from South America walked i...

I can fix most popular sport in world

Unlike the World Series, the World Cup is a truly global event. Soccer (football) is the most popular sport in the world by any measure. So why hasn’t soccer caught on in America like it has...

‘Government doesn’t think consumers know how to drive’

I’ve been a car guy for 70 years, going back to the first AMT model car kit I built when I was 12 years old. Over that period of time, I’ve had customs, sports cars, hot rods, RVs, daily dri...

At Harvard, Tom Hanks offered moments of grace

This is a fan letter. Commencement speeches are trampolines, elevating and entertaining with just enough risk to keep things interesting. So many ways to go wrong – faux erudition from civil...

Get real about broadband in rural areas

“Electricity is a modern necessity of life, not a luxury. That necessity ought to be found in every village, in every home, and on every farm in every part of the United States.” – Presiden...

Poems anchored me as I lost my son, so I shared them

In the early hours on Tuesday, about 12 hours before our treasured 12-year-old son died from a rare form of brain cancer, I climbed into his bed at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem,...

Power of art: Denise, heaven’s receptionist, best thing on TikTok

Do you ever wonder what heaven is like? Well, I know, because I have seen it in a joyful, witty TikTok series featuring Denise, heaven’s receptionist. Denise is a gum-chewing, keyboard-clack...

Give ‘old-timers,’ ‘legends’ their lifetime Purg passes

Another ski season has come and gone, and to the unsuspecting tourist, everything was business as usual. Stellar, in fact. “Record-breaking” on all fronts to anyone who wasn’t around in the ...

Outside consultants ‘detrimental to local democratic process’

There is an unusual erosion of locally based civic life underway in Durango and La Plata County. We are told that American civic life has been in decline since the middle of the last century...

Yin and yang of two separate selves

Yin-Yang is the ancient Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. The yin is represented by the black; the yang by the white. The yin represents the ne...

‘I hate pickleball’

I’m 65 now, which means that, according to federal law, I have to start playing pickleball. But I don’t want to play pickleball. I hate pickleball. I’m fine with AARPers all over America lov...

‘Thanks, senator. You must be reading the Herald’

Well, I had no idea that The Durango Herald was so powerful. If you caught my March 10 column with the headline, “Betting, transfer rules make CU ‘Compromise University,’ ” you know I was n...
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