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Kofoed: Resolving disputes with collaborative family law

When a couple “lawyer up” during a divorce or custody dispute, it may seem that they’re about to go to war. But you don’t have to re-enact Gettysburg to resolve a domestic dispute...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: On the Law

Reyes: Kit Carson co-op sets the record straight

In recent months, the topic of energy providers has emerged as a polarizing issue with information – some accurate, some patently false – being disseminated through public opinion forums and...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Gamer girl gets no respect

DEAR ABBY: I’m an avid video game player. My husband and I bond over playing games, reading and talking about them. In fact, in my spare time, I just earned a master’s degree in video ga...

DATE: Apr 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Good work, Colorado, but we still have a long way to go

On March 21, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill that represents one more step forward in the efforts to recognize people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as equal and contr...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Real food powers your health, not vitamin supplements

Being raised on whole-grain homemade bread, farm fresh eggs, fresh yogurt, garden produce and, of course, raw milk was a matter of logic to my progressive mother who followed 20th-century au...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Schultz: All labor has dignity – MLK and the white working class

America’s white working class has never had a champion more eloquent than the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I don’t mean to suggest that this was his mission, but it was the in...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Connie Schultz

Girl guilty about partying

DEAR ABBY: I am a 17-year-old senior and have been dating the same boy for two years. A month ago, he told me he wanted to break up “because he needed some time to figure out what he wan...

DATE: Apr 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

10 reasons to see MET’s ‘Luisa Miller’

A lavishly staged tale of doomed love

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Littwin: On The Denver Post, vultures and superheroes

Some credit the line to the great A.J. Liebling, others to the maybe even greater H.L. Mencken, but in either case it’s undeniably true: “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one...

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Beaver: Education in 21st century America; hell on the home front

In America, we have an epidemic. It is not normal to hear about children murdering their classmates, in large numbers. Some factors may include bullying, side effects of prescription medicat...

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Douthat: Why not Mike Pence?

A few days ago, which is to say an eternity in our Trump-dilated time, there was a story on NPR about anxious evangelicals’ seeking a meeting with the president. The subject of th...

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Teen struggles with alcoholic mom

DEAR ABBY: My mom is a recovering alcoholic. Her alcoholism has caused emotional distress and damaged our relationship to the point that I am aloof and terse toward her. She’...

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.