Columnists

Reluctant grandparents veto couple’s plan to start a family

I will be 30 this year, and they keep telling me I should wait until I’m 40 to have kids.…

May 19, 2017

View from the Center

Ready for summer, ready for camps at the DAC!

Scottdu1-i-syn Summer is a magical season in Durango, full of endless opportunities for adventure, but for parents, it can also…

Thinking Green

A challenge to our national monuments: Will the Lords of Yesterday prevail?

Mark Pearsondu1-i-syn A presidential administration just launched an overarching attack on more than 11 million acres of previously protected landscapes.…

Brooks: When the world is led by a child

David Brooksdu1-i-syn At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured…

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Republican party has lost its moral compass

Thomas L. Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times, became the paper’s foreign-affairs columnist in 1995.…

Mom weighs telling her son truth about dad’s ‘time away’

I know it will be hard for my boy to deal with. I also wonder what he should tell other…

From the Extension Office

Scholarship winners exemplify 4-H values, commitment

We are proud to provide some funding to our members who have shown continued dedication and commitment over the years.…

May 17, 2017

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Meet Dr. Willie Parker, a Southern Christian abortion provider

du1-i-syn Then there are people like Dr. Willie Parker. Parker is black, feminist and driven by his Christian faith to…

May 17, 2017

Classic meatloaf is comfort food that warms generations

DEAR JENNA: I’m pleased to share that recipe once again. I have made it and we love it, too. Now…

May 17, 2017

Columnists

Horoscope for May 20,2017

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): You are the financial wizard of the zodiac. During the next four weeks, you…

Kennedy: Education should be our state’s highest priority

du1-i-syn This week, students and teachers in La Plata County are breaking ground on a brand new school, the Bayfield…

Joyce Rankin

Rankin: The legislative session and the accountability clock

du1-i-syn Statute holds state school districts and public schools accountable on “statewide performance indicators.” In other words, accountability. It recognizes…

Krugman: Judas, tax cuts and the great betrayal

KRUGMAN-MUGdu1-i-syn What inspired this calculation? The spectacle of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, the speaker of…

When man is ready to talk, his wife can’t stay awake

Contrast this to a recent trip she took with her friends where they talked and yucked it up for five…

Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Anti-globalization fervor pits politics against economics

Robert Samuelsondu1-i-syn The administration has made undoing the damage a central part of its economic strategy. This will almost certainly…

May 15, 2017

Ex-friend cast out of social circle dreams of vengeance

We have supported her emotionally and financially from time to time for many years. My husband does have a habit…

May 15, 2017

Action Line

TV viewers can watch goats for free, but not Broncos

Beseeching Action Line to advocate for television is like asking the San Juan Citizens Alliance to support a new coal-fired…

What's up in Durango Skies

Southern sky offers astronomers summer viewing delights

For summer observing, I like to travel south of the equator. That is, south of the celestial equator. There, you…

The Travel Troubleshooter

What to do when you’re feeling low at high altitude

“The world was spinning and I felt like death,” she says. “It was like the worst hangover you can imagine…

Mom’s long-distance advice isn’t what teen wants to hear

DEAR TEEN: Regardless of what you may think about what your mother is telling you, she is not the “enemy.”…

Gulliford's Travels

Putting Everett Ruess to rest: Perhaps a final conclusion to a 1934 desert mystery

The Ruess saga has inspired books, songs, plays and celebrations. A botched scientific analysis of DNA embarrassed researchers at the…

May 13, 2017