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2025 priorities: Health care access, tribal council collaboration, rural representation

With the start of the 2025 legislative session around the corner, I want to share an update on my work as your new state representative, as well as the bills I’ll be proposing this year. Ove...

DATE: Jan 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Embracing AI in schools: Teaching responsibility in a digital world

Artificial Intelligence may feel like a sci-fi buzzword, but it’s becoming part of everyday life – from voice assistants to online recommendations. With this rapid rise comes excitement and ...

DATE: Jan 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Community

New Public Health Department locations and radon month

The La Plata County Public Health Department will be moving to three new locations in Durango over the next few months. Most of our public health programs – such as environmental health, bir...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Relative threatens to reveal secret

DEAR ABBY: I was raped by a family member and, because of special circumstances, told no one except one other family member, who I swore to secrecy. She recently got mad at me because of my ...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

A note on history: Improving our system does not mean tearing it down

It was thought provoking to read David Brooks’ “The moral challenge of Trumpism” (Herald, Dec. 1). For quite a while, Brooks has presented well-developed, understandable perspectives from th...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Safety Meeting opens for Kyle Hollingsworth

They’re a harmony heavy band. While there are loads of Durango-based bands that are thick with vocal harmonies, which includes bluegrass bands to the barbershoppers, for Safety Meeting, a lo...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hope and health for New Year

DEAR READERS: Welcome to 2025. A New Year has arrived; the last one is safely behind us. As always, this New Year brings with it our hopes for a new beginning. Today presents an opportunity ...

DATE: Dec 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Husband’s secret life still kept under wraps

DEAR ABBY: A year ago, I found out my husband has been cheating on me with multiple women for more than a decade and kept two of his conquests for that entire time. He also sent all our savi...

DATE: Dec 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

‘It’s what we do’: Salt of the earth Durangoans exemplars for all

A relative newcomer to Durango, I’m learning my way around, making little trips around town and getting a feel for everyday life. Take the other day, for instance. My first stop was nearby, ...

DATE: Dec 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Ag stories are hot potatoes these days

Dear Action Line: This Durango Herald photo and story is from 1970 when this town still cared about agriculture news. Yes, finding a very cool potato was more important than the three-wa...

DATE: Dec 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Through the changes, the good and bad, community remains steadfast

It’s the end of 2024. Personally, I will be glad to see this year in the rearview mirror, if only because it was a particularly divisive election year that seemed to go on forever. It’s the ...

DATE: Dec 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Amid an explosion of capability, artificial intelligence leadership is imperative

Hearing aids that form a bubble around two people in a crowded room to bring new life and interaction for the hearing impaired. A robot that delivers food to your table after the waitstaff t...

DATE: Dec 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns