Columnists - The Durango Herald

Radon: Winter best time to test your home for this silent killer

Radon – a gas second only to cigarette smoke in its ability to cause lung cancer – can’t be seen, smelled or tasted. This gas kills about 500 Coloradans annually. It is a Class A...

DATE: Jan 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Another reason to take a step into downtown

The Durango Business Improvement District is busy in early 2015. The next promotion for us is Random Acts of Kindness week. BID and Bank of Colorado are teaming up for the second year in a r...

DATE: Jan 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Guests ranged in age from 2 to 200 million

Jerry Zink’s 65th birthday party was also a mellow celebration of his co-founding of StoneAge Waterblast Tools (with John Wolgamott) and a coming-home party for the infamous dinosaur head, w...

DATE: Jan 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Charlie Hebdo and the high cost of humor

“Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.” – Mark Twain Written in a notebook some time in 1888, Twain’s simple sentence appears to be a casual thought, s...

DATE: Jan 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Errors common when reporting cause of death

A great many of the death certificates filed in this country aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, and neither are the scientific studies based on them. I’ve expressed this o...

DATE: Jan 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Coroner's Report

Tragic ‘Foxcatcher’ has Durango ties

Film based on true story; wrestlers held camps here

DATE: Jan 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: John Peel

It’s not the same old, same old with road’s new ‘new’ sign

Regarding the intersection at East Animas Road (County Road 250) and 32nd Street: How long before a stop sign is no longer new? And does it immediately convert to “old” on a certain date? Do...

DATE: Jan 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Grief: An uncertain process we all experience

Many of us are attending more funerals and memorial services these days. I have been greatly saddened by the loss of two friends this past fall. The services were good places to remember, ho...

DATE: Jan 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

It’s Community Connections, not ‘Community Corrections’

When I first started at Community Connections (back in the dark ages when dinosaurs walked the earth), I told an acquaintance where I worked, and she responded, “Oh, I know someone at the Sh...

DATE: Jan 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Stone messengers

Across wild landscapes, humans build cairns as markers, companions

DATE: Jan 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Show your support by helping during CrimeStoppers month

The CrimeStoppers program was originated in Albuquerque by concerned residents in September 1976. Today, there are nearly 1,200 CrimeStoppers programs in the United States. The program in Du...

DATE: Jan 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: To Protect and Serve

Wage issue is growing locally

Thank you for your discussion about the minimum wage vs. a living wage (Herald, Jan. 5). It is easy to get them confused. Back in 2008 when concerned residents put together the “La Plata Cou...

DATE: Jan 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman