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Rule to disclose all airline fees suffers setback

The U.S. Transportation Department surprised the travel world last month by suspending the creation of an important new consumer-protection regulation. At issue was a Supplemental...

DATE: Apr 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Dear Abby: Give everyone chance to taste teachers’ potluck specialties

DEAR ABBY: I have been a teacher for many years, and several times a year I encounter a dilemma I hope you can finally solve for me. When staff members get together for a potluck meal, i...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

High school is hardest after being accepted to college

As the spring season rolls around at Durango High School and college acceptance letters are arriving at students’ doorsteps, seniors are facing the most challenging part of their high school...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Students on Point

Publicity stunts do not add up to sound policy

Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal? Back in December, President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufactu...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Why the natural gas industry opposes the BLM’s new “methane rule.”

At the end of 2016, the Bureau of Land Management adopted a controversial new rule, “Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation,” also known as the “methane...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Treat testing season like a marathon, not a sprint

For school-age students, it’s that time of year again ... testing season. Seemingly every other week in the spring, high-schoolers in Durango and across the country are sitting down for anot...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: On Education

Children should expect to have clean water at school

Lead can seriously change the trajectory of a child’s life. Studies show that lead is never safe in a child’s body. Exposure can seriously affect a child’s IQ, attention span and create nume...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From the State House

Disabilities services in Colorado facing a perfect storm

The idea of a “perfect storm” is that in rare circumstances, a combination of independent factors comes together in such a way to create a calamity far worse than the sum of its parts. In fa...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Showing up is what gets the work done

This being the last column I have the privilege to write for The Durango Herald, there’s a certain pressure I feel to pen a magnum opus of sorts. Let me pour some cold water on th...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Letting go of fear and living in Love

For those of us in churches that follow a liturgical calendar, the celebration of Holy Week is here. It began with Palm Sunday, the day Christians remember Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem at Pas...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Mired in the present, U.S. will miss clean energy future

When Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, America had almost no paved roads outside the cities. One of the early owners’ biggest headaches was tires punctured by horseshoe nails left o...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

The secret to $100 grocery budget revealed

My family of three eats delicious, healthy meals on a grocery budget of $100 a week, with enough leftovers for lunch. How do we do it? The secret is really quite simple, and you can do it, t...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Money Savvy