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Recognize, then challenge, thinking traps to lead a more joyful life

A colleague once shared with me the observation that much of the health-related suffering humans experience originates between the ears. A complete understanding of the various fa...

DATE: Feb 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Centura backs out of Southwest Health Alliance

In response to the growing support of the Southwest Health Alliance, a community-based health insurance cooperative in affiliation with the Peak Health Alliance, Centura Health announced tod...

DATE: Feb 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local First

Farhad Manjoo: Is Amazon’s store just too good to be broken up?

Amazon is a genie of consumerist wishes, and it keeps growing more irresistible. The company’s online store has always been convenient and plentiful, but in the last year, Amazon ...

DATE: Feb 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Why travelers don’t value their time – and what it means for your next vacation

How valuable is your vacation time? That can be a difficult question to answer, even for someone like Mike Golpa, a busy dentist from Las Vegas. “I have taken longer flights and e...

DATE: Feb 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Woman is trapped by guilt in friendship

Dear Abby: Years ago, I was friendly with a man from work who was very close to his mom. She came along with us once for lunch and ended up really liking me. From that point on, whenever...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Ross Douthat: The Bloomberg temptation – and the peril

For a long time, the notion of a Michael Bloomberg presidential candidacy seemed like a Manhattan fancy, a conceit with elite appeal but no mass constituency, a fantasy for Acela riders who ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

David Brooks: It was education that made Scandinavia great

Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic productivity, high social equality, high social trust and high levels of pers...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Che Apalache: Argentina’s only bluegrass band?

Argentina is about 5,200 miles away from North Carolina. A considerable distance that could prohibit any kind of cultural influence from making its way from North to South America, but this ...

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Man hopes to move affair forward

Dear Abby: I have been communicating with this woman I work with. She is currently seeing a guy she’s been with for about four years. We have a clear connection and primal attraction and...

DATE: Feb 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Barbara McLachlan: Priming state Outdoor Rec office to do even more

A group of legislators toured the Winter Colorado Outdoor Recreation Convention in Denver last week, where companies from around the world touted their incredible selection of outdoor equipm...

DATE: Feb 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: From the State House

Trimble Crossing is the area’s new hot spot

On my way up to Purgatory, the temperature sign at Trimble Crossing shows it’s hot as hell. Does La Plata County have an untapped power source? Is the magma that fuels Trimble Hot Springs co...

DATE: Feb 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Clyde Church: Getting on the same page with the land use code

The new year is off and running and at La Plata County, that means a new chairperson of the Board of County Commissioners. Julie Westendorff passed the gavel to me in January, and now I have...

DATE: Feb 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns