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Email: actionline@durangoherald.com
‘Twas a week before Christmas and all through our towns, Events of the past year brought smiles and frowns. Traditions aplenty for this time of year; So here is your poem for holiday jeer. It’s...
DATE: Dec. 17, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
Recently, I reviewed my city utility bill. Admittedly, it’s the first time I really looked at it in detail. To my surprise, the bill said we “consumed” $25 worth of sewage. Yuck! I thought we...
DATE: Dec. 10, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
When I pull up “Mesa Verde” on Google Maps using my Apple iPhone, “Mesa Verde” appears in what looks to be Japanese. Why is this? It’s not just my phone, I have used numerous iPhones and it is...
DATE: Dec. 3, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
Before you and Mrs. Action Line hang up your blaze orange for the season, I need help with a quirk discovered while reading the paper and eating my oatmeal. In the Herald’s “Hunting Guide,” I see...
DATE: Nov. 26, 2017 | COLUMN: Action Line
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
The Durango Herald is assisting Santa this year in collecting letters from local children. Drop off your child’s letter to Santa in the mailbox in front of The Durango Herald, 1275 Main Avenue, in downtown Durango. All letters will be added to this photo gallery and a selection will run in The Durango Herald on Dec. 22.
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