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Radon can pose serious health risks, test your home now

January is National Radon Action Month. Radon in our homes is a significant health issue. Forty-nine percent of homes in La Plata County have required mitigation of the colorless...

DATE: Jan 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

From the Department of Injustice, more prohibition

After foraging through the dumpster of discarded ideas, the Trump administration has dragged out another fetid reject as part of its campaign to roll back modernity, common sense and the wil...

DATE: Jan 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Swinging makes wife uneasy

DEAR ABBY: My husband, to whom I’ve been married since July of 2016, has recently caved in to pressure from friends to participate in “swinger” behavior. He wants me to be included, but ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Breaking through a top weight-loss obstacle

Why is weight loss so difficult when it is exactly what is needed to improve overall health? One major obstacle with weight loss is that the brain subconsciously hears “loss,” an...

DATE: Jan 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Mother worries about children

DEAR ABBY: I have grown children. All of them are underachievers. When contemporaries talk about their children getting jobs, getting married, having kids, going on vacation, buying a ho...

DATE: Jan 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Harrop: Seven habits of highly effective resisters

Cleaning up the cultural and civic debris left by Donald Trump and his right-wing helpers will require concerted effort. The “resistance” is determined to do that, but to succeed, its member...

DATE: Jan 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

Brooks: Praise for those who ‘move in traffic with prudence’

Over the past several years we have done an outstanding job of putting total sleazoids at the top of our society: Trump, Bannon, Ailes, Weinstein, Cosby, etc. So it was good to g...

DATE: Jan 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: The retreat to tribalism

Imagine three kids running around a maypole, forming a chain with their arms. The innermost kid is holding the pole with one hand. The faster they run, the more centrifugal force...

DATE: Jan 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Workshop will teach techniques to extend the growing season

As our travels around the sun begin again, we seem to be traversing through a very, very strange and dichotomous winter. This week, we have winter storm warnings for Jacksonville...

DATE: Jan 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Linnett: Hemp replaces uranium in rural western Colorado

When locals in western Colorado’s old uranium mining towns of Naturita and Nucla get word that a journalist is coming to town, they reach for their guns. Not to shoot the “fake n...

DATE: Jan 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Girl warns about photo sharing

DEAR ABBY: I’m writing to you about an experience I had that might be useful to girls my age and older. I’m in eighth grade and friends with more boys than girls. Because I’m a tomboy, f...

DATE: Jan 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Probe shows Junction Street not shady lane

Resurfacing of Junction Road last summer was puzzling because the alligator-skin pattern of asphalt deterioration at Miller School indicated an area of greater need. Potholes compelled refil...

DATE: Jan 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Action Line

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