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With safety, Durango can be a trippy place

Is Durango the safest town in America? See the attached photo. Sign me, Capt. Safety You know a city is serious about safety when a torn-up sidewalk or leaky fire hydrant requires...

DATE: Dec 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Madrid’s dazzling holiday lights draw extraordinary crowds

Like others in Spain, our family headed to Madrid over the Feast of the Immaculate Conception holiday. I learned quickly that the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a big deal ...

DATE: Dec 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: An American in Spain

What’s ahead for hotel guests in 2018? Expect surprises

Mandatory “resort fees” mushroomed last year, even as hotels added new charges for all kinds of things, including cancellations and late checkouts. With pressure to squeeze even more profit ...

DATE: Dec 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Animal advocate issues warning

DEAR ABBY: I am president and co-founder of the Wildlife Center of Virginia, one of the leading teaching and research hospitals in the world for wildlife medicine. We have treated more t...

DATE: Dec 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Moving in, out and around Durango

Editor’s Note: This is part two of a four-part series on the Four Pillars of a Strong Tourism Community.Last time, I described the second pillar of a strong tourism economy, which is the...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Talbot: Republicans attack on conservation would shock their conservative predecessors

When President Richard Nixon asked my old boss at the Smithsonian Institution to loan me, then the institution’s head of environmental sciences, to the White House, I took on what may seem l...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: ‘The Sidneys’ part I - the year’s best long-form journalism

Those of us on the Decision Desk of the Sidney Awards faced a moral dilemma. Could we give a Sidney to an essay the title of which we couldn’t quote in a family newspaper? We dec...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Blanchard: The 2017 anxiety syndrome

In the months leading up to and during this first year after the 2016 elections, I have felt a strange kinship with Bob Dylan’s clueless Mr. Jones. You probably remember: ...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Grijalva: Ryan Zinke is destroying the Interior Department

During his confirmation hearing and throughout his time in office, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has presented himself as an admirer of Teddy Roosevelt and a believer in conservation. But le...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Partner wrongly accused of cheating

DEAR ABBY: My partner of 11 years has decided he is no longer in love with me. He says it’s because he thinks I cheated on him. I have told him repeatedly that it didn’t happen, which is...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Charitable giving should come from your heart, head

While shopping downtown this holiday season, you may have noticed the “Make It Count” giving campaign organized by our Durango Business Improvement District. This campaign encourages people ...

DATE: Dec 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Harrop: Let’s skip the war against baby boomers, okay?

When things get dull, enterprising rousers of rabble promote a war against something or other to gain attention. The war against the baby boom generation is already in full swing. ...

DATE: Dec 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

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