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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

March is National Kidney Month – know your risk

Because March is right around the corner and designated as National Kidney Month, it’s a good time to review the basics when it comes to understanding and preventing kidney disease. ...

Stay up late tonight, check out the stars

The longer hours of darkness in the winter make it a perfect time of year for stargazing – night starts early, so you don’t have to stay up too late to enjoy the stars! The air temperature i...

What’s the right sales price for your home?

Determining an asking price for your home can be tricky. Highly priced, you could risk not being considered by potential buyers. If priced too low, you “leave money on the table” – something...

Why isn’t Jupiter much brighter than Venus?

Greetings, stargazers. Beside the moon, the three brightest objects in the sky are all visible right now. Venus in the west, Jupiter in the east and Sirius, the only one that is...

Congo an example of how family planning works

In a previous article, I wrote about how it was possible for one doctor to perform hundreds of tubal ligations in one day – but probably not honor the rights of the patients. The next column...