Columnists - The Durango Herald

Finding balance in your eating habits, not fads

The potential for diet overwhelm is real, and common struggles of unsatisfying results, difficulty of adhering to restricted eating plans, social pressures (welcome summer!) and emotional ea...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

San Juan Brewfest tickets on sale

The Durango Business Improvement District is proud to partner with United Way of Southwest Colorado every year to manage the San Juan Brewfest. The Brewfest is a beer-tasting festival with l...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Wife prepares to run off with best man

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to “George” for 35 years. I was pregnant when I married. We had dated only five months. We came from families that believed you had to “do the right thing” and...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Hotel Draw: Playing music for the sake of playing music

Making music is fun. At least it is for members of local band Hotel Draw. While they don’t perform with the regularity as other local bands, they’ve been one of the sleeper bands at the last...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

McCrackin has a close eye on how federal government ‘spent our money’

Curtis McCrackin of Cedaredge, a former general contractor now in real estate, said some guys read the sports page. He prefers economic and political news, particularly how the federal gover...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Webb says U.S. economy being ‘destroyed intentionally’ by government

Lew Webb of Durango calls himself a “common sense patriot” and uses the words of the Founding Fathers, “we the people,” often. Webb, who sold a family auto dealership in California that empl...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Above 160: Why does this fence need a gate?

Dear Action Line: I love the wildlife crossing on U.S. Highway 160 between Durango and Pagosa Springs. It would be so nice to have a few more of these to prevent roadkill and facilitate ...

DATE: Jun 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Column: It’s judgment time for Fort Lewis’ Travis Whipple

Skyhawks’ coaching has almost all been hired by Whipple

DATE: Jun 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Study after study, same message: Protect the Dolores’

On Jan. 3, 1975, then President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 93-621 that amended the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to include an accelerated study of 100 rivers across the nation, and make rec...

DATE: Jun 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Beauty lies with people’s capacity to understand need for reform’

“A night in jail should straighten you out. A few nights.” This was the last comment I heard while being placed into the back of a police cruiser, blood dripping from just below my left eye,...

DATE: Jun 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Let’s agree on ‘one rule, learned on the playground’

Since you’re reading this in a newspaper, you don’t need to be reminded that we are living in a particularly polarized time in our nation. Not that long ago, Republicans and Democrats would ...

DATE: Jun 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

BLM’s Public Lands Rule protects ‘quality of life, wildlife, the future’

As an owner of an outdoor small business and a dad who spends as much time as I can with my family outdoors, I know how important our public lands are and how important it is that we do all ...

DATE: Jun 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday