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Flu vaccine can keep you healthy – and keep you alive

One of my most difficult memories from medical training was the death of a middle-aged mother of three from complications of influenza. She had contracted the virus around the ho...

DATE: Oct 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Schultz: Yes, it is bad out there, but you are not alone

The cashier smiled as she requested my license to prove I was old enough to buy cabernet. I complied and thanked her for making my day. Something shoved against me, ha...

DATE: Oct 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Harrop: Trump economy fails to “Wow” many investors

A rich guy I know really, really dislikes Donald Trump. A member of the 1 percent, Jack (not his real name) thinks the president has sullied the country’s reputation and put democracy in dan...

DATE: Oct 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Froma Harrop

Son left out of mom’s gift giving

DEAR ABBY: My husband, daughter and I all have birthdays in the same month. My mother-in-law sends gifts for me and my daughter, but never to my husband, her son. He tries to shrug it of...

DATE: Oct 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Drop off sagging jack-o’-lanterns to feed livestock after Halloween

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

Scott: Let Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” rest in peace

The Environmental Protection Agency has published official notice of plans to withdraw the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. States will no longer be required to meet the specific car...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Keillor: So a man walks into a bar in Oregon....

I hung out in Eugene last week where it rains every day so the air is fresh and clean. Old people my age don’t care for rain so Eugene is not a retirement mecca – more of a youth...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Littwin: Cub Scout gets booted for asking a question

Let’s be clear what happened here. According to the facts as we know them, a bullying Cub Scout leader kicked an 11-year-old boy out of his den because the boy, Ames Mayfield, asked a tough ...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Mom unsure of girl’s ‘boyfriends’

DEAR ABBY: I am single and the mother of a 7-year-old girl. When she was 4, I decided there would be no parade of guys coming in and out of my life, or any at all. I have barely dated, a...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Why it’s so hard to kick refined sugar

With Halloween just around the corner, watch out for the sweet and tempting villain we love to hate – sugar. It’s the time of year when loads of candy, chocolate and anything load...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Friedman: And then there was one left with integrity intact

In March, I wrote a column in the form of a memo to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, CIA Director M...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Man considers having an affair

DEAR ABBY: I’m in my 60s, fit, sexually able and I desire physical relations. My wife, because of health issues, is no longer interested in sex. In fact, it might be mildly painful to he...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby