Columnists - The Durango Herald

Build your savings account by setting goals, making plan

This week is National America Saves Week Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Are you ready to leave the ...

DATE: Feb 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Land seizures create path for pipeline

Is your domain eminently defensible? Or can a private corporation take your home and land for profit? How about a foreign corporation? These questions arise because currently a f...

DATE: Feb 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Your Ecological House

Time to address our deteriorating roads

As I write this column, on this cold Monday morning, the Capitol completely is void of people. There is a little snow in the Mile High City, so the General Assembly will not be in session. I...

DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Sister’s baking makes party memorable

Many people have a cake for their birthday. But how many people have a whole table of cakes? The guests at Gisela Lott’s 60th birthday found themselves confronting a cornucopia of...

DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Weather alters your day and your economy

Waking up Monday morning filled me with a sense of both dread and joy. Dread that I, like many others in the area, would be spending the next four hours shoveling tons of snow fro...

DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

A dead-on, dirty mystery of internal affairs

There’s an old axiom among confirmed skeptics that cops and crooks are the flip side of the same coin. This suspicion is held most evidently by cops themselves and is responsible...

DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Two ‘omas’: Fascinating and incidental

Medical mumbo-jumbo – especially classification of anatomy, diseases and pathology – has roots going back several millennia to the Greek physician Hippocrates (circa 460 to 370 B.C.). ...

DATE: Feb 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

City staffer pulls no punches over tiny special-events area

Along the Animas River Trail by the fish hatchery, there’s a pile of straw topped with an orange safety cone. Four re-bar sections were pounded in the ground, and yellow plastic tape surroun...

DATE: Feb 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

‘Death with dignity’ hits home

Durangoan disappointed he won’t have all options available

DATE: Feb 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: John Peel

March is National Kidney Month – know your risk

Because March is right around the corner and designated as National Kidney Month, it’s a good time to review the basics when it comes to understanding and preventing kidney disease. ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Stay up late tonight, check out the stars

The longer hours of darkness in the winter make it a perfect time of year for stargazing – night starts early, so you don’t have to stay up too late to enjoy the stars! The air temperature i...

DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

What’s the right sales price for your home?

Determining an asking price for your home can be tricky. Highly priced, you could risk not being considered by potential buyers. If priced too low, you “leave money on the table” – something...

DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate