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‘Hurkle-durkling not a sin. Give yourself gift to lounge’

One of the latest TikTok crazes/wellness trends is hurkle-durkling (TikTok user Kira Kosarin). I am proudly not a TikToker. However, this term caught my eye. The Scots have some wonderfully ...

‘Unacceptable for American president to have sole authority’ to launch nukes

Forty-five feet underground in a command center near Omaha, there’s an encrypted communications line that goes directly to the American president. To get to it, you need to pass through a gu...

San Juan River’s ‘ever-moving pile of sediment’ requires new vigilance

When the San Juan River flows out of the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, it contributes 15% of Lake Powell’s water. But there’s a problem: The river carries a hefty 55% of the s...

On water compact: ‘Colorado will never get a better deal’

I’ve been a water engineer in Southwest Colorado for 50 years and watched the importance of the Colorado River Compact increase from a background document to front and center as the current ...

NRA, the U.S. Supreme Court and the public trust

A parallel exists between Wayne La Pierre, former leader of the National Rifle Association, and Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court justice. Both men have damaged public trust in their respecti...

‘Will retain competent attorneys, prevent wrongful convictions’

I’m running for district attorney in the 6th District so my neighbors will live in the safest place in the state. I have 18 years of overall criminal law experience and prosecuted well over ...

‘Experience, vision to continue the work with leadership’

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two groups: defense attorneys, representing clients, and district attorneys, prosecuting crimes and seeking justice for victims....

‘When can we respect dignity, wishes of aged, ill?’

Dr. Thomas J. Perille’s guest column on Feb. 23 in The Durango Herald, previously published in The Colorado Sun, is wrong on so many counts. He talks about Senate Bill 068, currently in the ...

‘Long nights, in-depth debate, good legislation for Colorado’

We are a third of the way through our time in the Legislature this year, and I anticipate the next two-thirds will consist of long nights, in-depth debate, dozens of meetings and some good l...

House Bill 1296 ‘a lot of power to put in hands of record keepers’

There’s a new buzzword in Colorado politics: vexatious. If that word wasn’t on your 2024 bingo card, join the club. Yet here we are, so let’s go down the rabbit hole of House Bill 1296, a bi...

Rosa Parks ‘had all the time in the world to talk’

It was 2 p.m. on a recent Sunday in the western Colorado town of Paonia, population 1,500. Not an ideal time to gather a crowd to meet the famous Rosa Parks, the woman who kicked off the mod...

Toxic beauty standards can be passed down

When my best friend and I lived together 13 years ago, our shared bathroom had a handful of products: soap, tanning lotion, deodorant, toothpaste, potpourri and maybe, occasionally, a face c...
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