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By Mike Smedley Special to the Herald Why is the city spending $30,000 to lower 400 parking meters to meet ADA specifications if parking is free for people with disability tags/license plates?...
DATE: Nov. 19, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
There’s a big new house going up in our neighborhood. So here’s the thing: Nearly every house nearby is designed so that snow sheds to the back and front yards. This new one, however, is designed...
DATE: Nov. 12, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
In the past month, I’ve noticed kids on self-propelled skateboards along the Animas River Trail. Is this the “slippery slope” that many feared when the City Council voted to allow electric bikes on...
DATE: Nov. 5, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
I see that La Plata Electric Association installed four free charging stations for members’ electric cars at LPEA’s Durango headquarters. Apparently, the chargers were paid for by a group called...
DATE: Oct. 29, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
This has been bugging me for years: People drive so s-l-o-w-l-y from the Camino del Rio and 14th Street intersection northward. Maybe it’s because downtown’s speed limit is 25 mph. But head north...
DATE: Oct. 22, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
I was going through airport security and had two new containers of yummy yogurt confiscated. The TSA agents declined, however, to confiscate an even larger container of tomatoes in salad dressing....
DATE: Oct. 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
My daughter has been invited to apply for a full-ride scholarship to any in-state college, but she says she would rather be homeless and $300,000 in debt than go to college in Colorado. Do all...
DATE: Oct. 8, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
I’m glad the city now has a $100 fine for first-time offenders who let bears get into their trash. However, the garbage cans behind the Durango Community Recreation Center have been knocked over...
DATE: Oct. 1, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
I share trash and recycling with my neighbor, a prominent business person in our community. When I go to add my recycling, I find things like toothpaste tubes, plastic bags and candy bar wrappers...
DATE: Sept. 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
There’s something odd at the construction site at the new Santa Rita Park sewer plant. At the base of the excavated hole was a lone porta-potty. Is this all we get for our money? Can one...
DATE: Sept. 5, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
How do I go about getting a parking permit like this guy has? I assume it conveys other special privileges that us ordinary folks aren’t entitled to? – Mark D’Lanes You’d expect this kind of...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
I’m a parent of a 9-R student and I keep rolling my eyes about the absurd permission form I had to sign for the solar eclipse. The district required parents to waive all liability if a kid looks at...
DATE: Aug. 20, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
