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Practices and routines are perfect for the winter months

The return to Mountain Standard Time with its early evenings and the cooler temperatures and freezing nights have turned us all more indoors. It’s time for indoor projects, routines and it’s...

Looking ahead to the next legislative term

Christmas candy now sits on the store shelves instead of Halloween treats, so that tells me winter is on its way. My hope is that we have snow, and plenty of it, not just for a w...

Guns: good or bad?

Protect people, liberty with sound gun regulation

Colorado’s draconian sex-offender laws need reform

In 1855, a 19-year-old woman named Celia was executed by hanging in Missouri. Her crime? She had murdered her owner, a man who purchased her when she was just 14 years old and had been forci...

Habitat to build home for a beloved brood

It’s the kind of story you see on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” only this time it’s happening here, and the recipient of the home is someone who’s putting in both sweat equity and ...

5 kilometers to ultrarunner: A fitness journey

In 2009 at the age of 38, Steve Collins hit rock bottom. “I got divorced, I was overweight and a pack-a-day smoker,” Collins said. “I knew I had to change my life, I made a choic...

Intrastate favorites return to The Hank

Colorado bluegrass musicians are a hearty folk. They’re a voluminous bunch who try to live up to a rich history, steeped in the tradition of American music dating back to the 1940...

4-H puts emphasis on science, technology

Last month, thousands of youths across the country celebrated the sixth annual 4-H National Youth Science Day. This year’s experiment was designed by colleagues of mine at Colorad...

Saving seeds may be key to saving ourselves

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.” – Paramahansa Yogananda I’d never heard of Vandana Shiva before a friend suggested I att...

Powers that be crown ‘barbarak’ a champion

The Gridiron Green Powers that be wreaked havoc on this year’s champions of new and old. Barbara Powers of Ignacio, aka “barbarak,” stood alone atop the Week 9 heap as the only G...

Making a world of difference

I guess you could call it taking volunteering to a high level, make that a very high level. Not only in commitment, but literally, too, in altitude. One of the great ideas in trav...

Local, national economy shows improvement

So where are we? Have we dodged yet another bullet as Congress and the president reached a tentative and temporary détente with respect to spending? Certainly, we have seen that t...