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This healthful twist on the French dip is also fun finger food

One upside of working from home, as many of us are these days, is the ability to upgrade your lunch from what you might normally bring to the office. Take a sandwich, for example. At home, y...

DATE: Sep 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Diners angry about masks and other coronavirus rules prompt training for restaurant workers

Six-plus months into the pandemic that has upended the way many businesses operate, videos of irate customers refusing to wear masks or maintain social distance are by now no novelty. ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

COVID-19 ‘long haulers’ suffer symptoms weeks, months later

For some, fatigue, brain fog, chest pain won’t go away

DATE: Sep 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Colorado Proud to host virtual lunch and learn roundtable

Colorado Proud will host a virtual lunch and learn roundtable from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday. The title of the roundtable is “Resilience in Southern Colorado Agriculture: Adapting, R...

DATE: Sep 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Tiny heart pump is a lifesaver

Mercy uses implant to keep blood flowing when a patient’s heart fails

DATE: Sep 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Every fall, I celebrate the Moon Festival with mooncakes. This year, I’m ordering them online.

People may be all about pumpkin spice lattes for fall, but for me, it’s not complete without mooncakes. Chinese people around the world eat them in celebration of the Moon Festiva...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

How to build better tacos at home, from the tortillas to the toppings

I have read a lot of fine literature in my day, full of beautiful turns of phrases and imagery. One of my favorites, though, is one you, too, may be familiar with if you’re a parent: “Pantlo...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Tofu sales skyrocket during the pandemic, as consumers search for affordable meat alternatives

American grocery store shoppers became accustomed to limits on certain household staples during the first half of 2020. The quest for toilet paper, ground beef and hand sanitizer sparked pan...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Pine River Library to host Zoom program about Native American sacred places

Pine River Library will host a virtual program with Andrew Gulliford from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Gulliford is a writer, historian and recent recipient of the 2019 Colorado Boo...

DATE: Sep 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Birds are dying in dramatic numbers in Southwest Colorado

Cold snap, wildfire smoke seen as potential culprits

DATE: Sep 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Western wildfire smoke causes East Coast haze, vivid sunsets

The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country – and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. While the dangerous plumes are forci...

DATE: Sep 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

U.S. agency denies petition to strip protections from songbird

ALBUQUERQUE – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has denied a petition that sought to end federal protections for the western yellow-billed cuckoo, saying the rare songbird continues to face...

DATE: Sep 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life