Heard Around the West

Breast milk is the best food for infants, plain and simple

Next week is World Breastfeeding Week. This topic has never been more timely than it is today. Scientific research continues to show a positive relationship between breastfeeding and infant ...

DATE: Jul 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

To quit those cigarettes, use more than one tool

Twenty million Americans have died from smoking-related disease in the past 50 years. Among people younger than 18, the U.S. Public Health Service predicts another 5.4 million sm...

DATE: Jul 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

A kinder, more huggable Smokey Bear

THE WEST Smokey Bear just got another makeover. Instead of sternly blaming us for not preventing wildfires, he’s become a huggy, supportive bear, reports The New York Times. Douse...

DATE: Aug 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

Stop trying to fry eggs on the sidewalk

THE WEST Sizzling, blistering, brutal: Whatever adjective you use to describe the West’s early-summer heat wave, it’s not strong enough. Normally cool places like Portland and Sea...

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

The Tupperware model of selling solar

ARIZONA AND THE NATION It is puzzling, perhaps, that solar power accounts for less than 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States. The cost of solar panels conti...

DATE: Jul 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

New laws in the name of freedom

COLORADO AND THE WEST The western Colorado town of Nucla only has about 730 residents, but its council is eager to tell them how to live — only in the name of freedom, of course, ...

DATE: Jun 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

A rather large lawn ornament

MONTANA AND COLORADO As the Missoulian puts it, “There’s rotten cellphone service, there’s nonexistent cellphone service, and then there’s what’s happening just a few miles east o...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

One toke over the state line

Traveling in the clouds “Marijuana tourists” are expected to converge on Colorado and Washington, hoping to score without fear of handcuffs, because voters in those states legaliz...

DATE: May 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

Breast milk is the best food for infants, plain and simple

To quit those cigarettes, use more than one tool

A kinder, more huggable Smokey Bear

Stop trying to fry eggs on the sidewalk

The Tupperware model of selling solar

New laws in the name of freedom

A rather large lawn ornament

One toke over the state line

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