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When all voices are heard, the group wins

It’s Sunday, and I’m craving some family time, the magical kind where we’re all grateful to be together, feeling close and enjoying the same activity, which is precisely the one I have chose...

DATE: Mar 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood

Teen caretaker gets no adult respect

DEAR ABBY: I’m 18. I started helping to take care of children at the age of 2. I have taken care of them alone since I was 7. Yet every time older people talk about child care, I am rude...

DATE: Mar 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

How to connect with potential tourists

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on tourism marketing strategies.The relative importance of media to the tourism marketing industry has been drastically evolving over t...

DATE: Mar 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Thiessen: Liberals don’t hate America and conservatives are not racists

WASHINGTON – I’m a rock-ribbed conservative who wants Republicans to keep control of Congress. But I’m not unhappy that Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone lost the special election in Pennsy...

DATE: Mar 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Marc Thiessen

Miscarriage leaves woman speechless

DEAR ABBY: My sister-in-law, a mother of four, just had a miscarriage at five months. I have no idea what to say to her or my nieces and nephews. “Sorry” doesn’t seem to suffice. Her 6-y...

DATE: Mar 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Armano: Budget riders undermine clean water, healthy rivers

I make my way to local rivers and high mountain lakes as often as possible to find solace, beauty and healthy habitats. Whent I’m not fishing, I am an engaged angler who stands up against ba...

DATE: Mar 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: Get me back my Turkey

Many years ago, the Israeli Bedouin expert Clinton Bailey told me a story about a Bedouin chief who discovered one day that his favorite turkey had been stolen. He called his sons together a...

DATE: Mar 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Duran: Protecting Coloradans from discrimination

Recently in this space, Sen. Bob Gardner, a Colorado Springs Republican, wrote that Democrats had resorted to “misinformation,” “demagoguery” and “hysterical cries” about Republicans’ vote t...

DATE: Mar 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Wife longs for life away from house

DEAR ABBY: My husband, Tom, and I have three kids: One is in college, the next is in grade school and the youngest is a baby. I’m a full-time medical student, and he’s a professional ath...

DATE: Mar 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Littwin: With layoffs, Post owners are looting the public trust

I’ve been lamenting the news of the latest devastating round of layoffs at the already-decimated Denver Post. Well, I’m sick of lamenting. The question now is what can we do about...

DATE: Mar 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Are your ‘gut’ and brain really connected?

We’ve all experienced it – that moment when you can’t think of a word and you just sort of babble as you try and get your thoughts straight. This mental “clouding” has been labeled brain fog...

DATE: Mar 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Unfaithful man struggles to tell wife

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my wife for 10 years. We have two beautiful daughters and have always had a great relationship. Last month, I was invited to go on a trip ov...

DATE: Mar 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

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