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Bresnahan: Kit Carson leading the way with distributed energy

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative has become a target of unfair criticism because of its break from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. We represent a threat to the current way...

DATE: Feb 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

You are never too old to be a detective in nature

The San Juan Mountains are finally looking like their winter selves! It’s so wonderful to see the life-sustaining snow blanketing our favorite craggy peaks. Snow provides more th...

DATE: Feb 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

What’s in a name?

Even though the name of this column is “What’s Up Downtown,” today I am writing about north Main Avenue. Many people do not know that Durango Business Improvement District (BID) works for no...

DATE: Feb 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Schultz: The children shall lead us – and leave us behind

At 8:18 p.m. on May 4, 1970, just hours after Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine others during an anti-war rally at Kent State University, R.J. Casey of Pittsburgh...

DATE: Feb 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Promise to daughter not kept

DEAR ABBY: I suffer from a debilitating, rare, chronic illness. Two years ago, my parents convinced me to move across the country to live with them in an unfamiliar city. They promised i...

DATE: Feb 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Freidman: Get out of Facebook and into the NRA’s face

Cameron Kasky, a 17-year-old at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who survived last week’s mass shooting, wrote a beautiful essay for CNN.com that declared: “At the end of the day, the st...

DATE: Feb 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Ganahl and Shoemaker: Keeping college affordable and a great investment

We have a unique perspective on college affordability that not many students or parents get, but it is one we’re happy to share. Our insight comes first and foremost as parents an...

DATE: Feb 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Bulimic employee embarrassed

DEAR ABBY: My psychiatrist’s office called and left a very sensitive voice message about my bulimia on a message machine shared with other individuals. Our voice messages are sent transc...

DATE: Feb 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Joswick: Perspective and the paradox of property rights

A truth: When the county goes to work on its land-use code, it is poking a stick into the hornets’ nest. So it is no surprise that this latest county effort is eliciting some pre...

DATE: Feb 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

What’s your risk for heart disease?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. About 630,000 Americans die from heart disease each year – th...

DATE: Feb 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Son threatened by past abuser

DEAR ABBY: I have a son from a previous relationship, and have been in a relationship for a year with a man I’ll call Bryan. Not long ago, Bryan confided to me that he and his brother we...

DATE: Feb 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Kristof: You’re wrong! I’m right!

We live in two Americas. In one America, a mentally unstable president selected partly by Russia lies daily and stirs up bigotry that tears our social fabric. In anothe...

DATE: Feb 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

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