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No one dies

What is white’s best move?

DATE: Jul 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

America’s favorite exercise?

We hear a lot about the importance of exercise for physical, mental, and emotional health. And I wholeheartedly agree, except for one all too common form of exercise I’d advise you to avoid....

DATE: Jul 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Lessons from the Sandbox

The color of tactics

What is white’s best move?

DATE: Jul 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

Durango Vineyard Church purchases old Nissan dealership

Dear Action Line, I heard that the Vineyard Church will take over the Nissan building as their new place of worship. Vineyard is a nondenominational Christian group. Like so many ne...

DATE: Jul 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line

The key

What is white’s best move?

DATE: Jul 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

Federal cuts and frozen funds threaten Southwest Colorado schools, hospitals, individuals and families

To start off on a positive note, my family and I had a wonderful time celebrating our nation’s Independence Day. We enjoyed the Rotary pancake breakfast in Durango and fireworks in Mancos at...

DATE: Jul 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Durango REI to feature EV charging, plans late summer opening

Dear Action Line, There appear to be electric vehicle chargers in the parking lot of the future REI location in Bodo Park. What kind are they? And when is this store supposed to ope...

DATE: Jul 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Washington’s budget cuts are hurting real people in our district

When policymakers in Washington talk about “efficiency,” “reforms” or “cost savings,” it’s easy to forget who pays the price. But here in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, the price is ...

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A uranium boom again across the Four Corners?

The end of World War II brought the Four Corners a uranium boom. Eight decades later, yellowcake may be making a comeback, but the deadly effects of radioactivity seem to be forgotten. In th...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Fixing mismanagement doesn’t mean selling off our public lands

Public lands should remain public; there’s no question about that. As someone who deeply values our public lands and the opportunities they provide for hiking, ranching and economic developm...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

The gift that costs nothing – but means everything

If I were to ask you to tell me the greatest gift you have ever received, what would your answer be? You might tell me about something you received a long time ago or perhaps in more recent ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Lessons from the Sandbox

A few lingering seconds

DIAG 1 We the people on the Fourth of July rally to firework displays. Fireworks, like a musical rift, have their own cadence, rhythm, and beat. It’s often the pauses, that extra long f...

DATE: Jul 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

No one dies

America’s favorite exercise?

The color of tactics

Durango Vineyard Church purchases old Nissan dealership

The key

Federal cuts and frozen funds threaten Southwest Colorado schools, hospitals, individuals and families

Durango REI to feature EV charging, plans late summer opening

Washington’s budget cuts are hurting real people in our district

A uranium boom again across the Four Corners?

Fixing mismanagement doesn’t mean selling off our public lands

The gift that costs nothing – but means everything

A few lingering seconds

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