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EPA regs would jeopardize power supply

The clash between environmental and energy reality versus idealism reached a crossroads in Denver last week when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission convened a technical conference on W...

A 20-ounce T-bone with the fixin’s for $2.95?

Those were the days. It’s not just a theme song from “All in the Family,” it’s the memories people shared Saturday at the Animas Museum when they stopped by to view the members-o...

Voodoo Glow Skulls will deliver funk, ska

The annual concert hosted by Fort Lewis College’s Student Union Productions is growing into one of the college’s premier student music events. According to a survey of all student...

Build your savings account by setting goals, making plan

This week is National America Saves Week Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Are you ready to leave the ...

Land seizures create path for pipeline

Is your domain eminently defensible? Or can a private corporation take your home and land for profit? How about a foreign corporation? These questions arise because currently a f...

Time to address our deteriorating roads

As I write this column, on this cold Monday morning, the Capitol completely is void of people. There is a little snow in the Mile High City, so the General Assembly will not be in session. I...

Sister’s baking makes party memorable

Many people have a cake for their birthday. But how many people have a whole table of cakes? The guests at Gisela Lott’s 60th birthday found themselves confronting a cornucopia of...

Weather alters your day and your economy

Waking up Monday morning filled me with a sense of both dread and joy. Dread that I, like many others in the area, would be spending the next four hours shoveling tons of snow fro...

A dead-on, dirty mystery of internal affairs

There’s an old axiom among confirmed skeptics that cops and crooks are the flip side of the same coin. This suspicion is held most evidently by cops themselves and is responsible...

Two ‘omas’: Fascinating and incidental

Medical mumbo-jumbo – especially classification of anatomy, diseases and pathology – has roots going back several millennia to the Greek physician Hippocrates (circa 460 to 370 B.C.). ...

City staffer pulls no punches over tiny special-events area

Along the Animas River Trail by the fish hatchery, there’s a pile of straw topped with an orange safety cone. Four re-bar sections were pounded in the ground, and yellow plastic tape surroun...

‘Death with dignity’ hits home

Durangoan disappointed he won’t have all options available