Columnists - The Durango Herald

Your Durango Fire Rescue Authority facing challenges

This month, I would like to highlight some of the future challenges facing Durango Fire Rescue Authority, and our ability to provide fire, rescue and emergency medical services in our commun...

DATE: Jul 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Durango Fire's Corner

Celebrate our nation’s bright spots in health care

A couple of weeks ago, Durango residents and visitors happily strolled around Buckley Park and watched the parade on Main Avenue. The Fourth of July was a chance to celebrate two things Amer...

DATE: Jul 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Southwest Colorado’s legislators need to better represent our values

It is safe to say that the outdoors and a clean, healthy environment are absolutely intrinsic to our identity in Southwest Colorado and the state as a whole. It’s one of the biggest reasons ...

DATE: Jul 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Camaraderie, consistency key to speed work

The mere mention of speed training to some runners can elicit feelings of dread, but not so for the runners participating in the weekly Durango Running Club workouts. They had nothing but go...

DATE: Jul 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: On the Run

Homegrown artist comes back for the summer

Driving into the Four Corners felt like coming home. Arriving at my family home in Dolores was being home. Walking into the Durango Arts Center was like arriving at my second home. ...

DATE: Jul 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: View from the Center

McIlroy goes too far; youth show promise

Earlier this week, I sat back in my chair so far that I almost fell over backwards after the comments I heard from Rory McIlroy about his decision not to compete in the Olympics and the twis...

DATE: Jul 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Clubhouse Porch

Phantom Ranch: Mary Colter’s oasis in the Grand Canyon

Anyone who has hiked the Bright Angel Trail off the Grand Canyon’s South Rim knows the pleasure 9 miles below of finding Phantom Ranch. How the ranch got there, who planted the first trees a...

DATE: Jul 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Use binoculars to explore the Milky Way

Greetings, stargazers. The summer Milky Way is one of the many things you get to enjoy if you are lucky enough to live in the Four Corners. From most big cities you might never ...

DATE: Jul 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Nature helps kids thrive in so many ways

Almost every parent I talk to struggles with the same issue in the summer – how to keep their kids off electronics. Things have changed since the days of kicking your kids outsid...

DATE: Jul 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Durango Nature Studies

San Juan Brewfest will be bigger than ever

The Durango Business Improvement District (BID) manages a handful of events each year that benefit Downtown and North Main Avenue businesses. We just wrapped a successful Fourth ...

DATE: Jul 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Virtuosity and chocolate delight donors

One of the great traditions of the Music in the Mountains is the way it kicks off its three-week season every year – with a private party for the people who make it possible, the donors. ...

DATE: Jul 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Lack of music reigns on Durango’s July 4th parade

I’m as patriotic as the next Western liberal intellectual. But I found myself uninspired by Durango’s Fourth of July parade. There was one tiny band, few floats that demonstrated any vision ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Action Line