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Improving your pets’ lives with a foster

My home is run by three fuzz balls: a husky mix (Goose), a pocket pittie (Stevie) and one perfect siamese cat (Pepperoni). All three came from Humane Societies, each arriving with their own ...

Dear Rachel: I want to maintain friendship but feel suffocated

I have a longtime friend who seems to want more time with me than I want to spend. I have explained that I am a home body, an introvert if you will. We have discussed this many times ove...

What the public doesn’t know about being homeless

Our country possesses more than sufficient infrastructure to address the housing crisis, yet the public hears only metrics and numbers, the occasional article about a “knife-wielding man” or...

Fifty years later, former couple cross paths

DEAR ABBY: I met “Bobbie” when we were in college in the early 1970s. We fell in love, got married and stayed together for seven years. Things changed; our divorce was amicable. We went on t...

Guest commentary: Don’t wait: Southwest Colorado must prepare now for wildfire season

“Be prepared in advance” is a preachy old saying that is easily ignored and readily forgotten. But the drought and dry conditions now facing Southwest Colorado bring urgent meaning to that p...

Tony Furtado and Luke Price hit the DAC

Tony Furtado keeps busy. The Portland, Oregon-based artist may be known to most as a musician, a roots and newgrass player whose banjo and slide guitar playing kept him busy at club shows an...

Black, white, gold – and more gold

One of the few perks reviewing the documentary “Melania” is seeing the innards of Trump Tower. Add Mar-a-Lago, the White House and the private luxury jet with “TRUMP” emblazoned on its skin....

Woman finds herself drawn to her stalker

DEAR ABBY: I am 57 and have never been married. I have had many relationships (some good, some bad). Although in the past I experienced heartbreaks, I am now open to meeting someone new. I r...

Durango petition demands ban on masked federal officers, requires visible identification

In the coming weeks, nearly 60 volunteers are fanning out all over the city of Durango in a citizens’ initiative petition for a Durango ordinance that prohibits masking of law enforcement of...

10 strategic morning habits that reset your metabolism and accelerate fat loss

Many people wake up feeling tired, bloated, inflamed or frustrated that the scale refuses to move despite their best efforts. The problem is often not willpower or effort. It is that the bo...

Why are my elders bugging me?

Dear Action Line, Do boxelder bugs have any redeeming purpose? They are all over inside my brick house, proudly appearing across the window screens and on the ceiling. Dropping down...

Remembering the Fitzgeralds: Champions of community and accountability

Jim and Terry Fitzgerald were giants in the oil and gas accountability movement that took root in La Plata County in the late 1980s. They both died on Dec. 30, when their home in the HD Moun...