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Traveling and enjoying three weeks of heaven

Three weeks of heaven ... For the past three weeks, my family and I vacationed in Santa Fe and Taos, N.M., Flagstaff, Ariz., and Carlsbad, Calif. Put another way, over the past three weeks I...

DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits

Looking Back Which came first: the chicken or the chicken ordinance?

From the Cortez Sentinel, March 21, 1929 CHICKEN OWNERS Notice is hereby given that henceforth chickens must be kept on the premises of the owner. Allowing chickens to ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Colorado water, wildfires and recalls

With Labor Day behind us, I begin preparing for legislative session 2014. I sit on two legislative interim committees, one on water and one on wildfires. These committees start meeting frequ...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Life in the Legislature

Colorado water, wildfires and recalls

With Labor Day behind us, I begin preparing for legislative session 2014. I sit on two legislative interim committees, one on water and one on wildfires. These committees start meeting frequ...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Life in the Legislature

More talk before action

As talk of U.S. military action against Syria escalates, let’s remember our history lessons. Recall that a decade ago, Congress and the American people were sold a story that Iraq...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

The age of happiness

Get this: Happiness among human beings peaks at age 23, tanks at 55, then peaks again at 69. So says a study by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Econom...

DATE: Aug 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Don’t jump too quickly into Syria

There is little doubt now that President Obama is planning some kind of military response to what the administration says without equivocation was a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian gov...

DATE: Aug 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Both sides play this game

Old joke: two cannibals are eating a clown and one says, “Does this taste funny to you?” In a case of life imitating joke, political partisans squared off in the case of the Obam...

DATE: Aug 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Prevention helps children avoid sports injuries

School is back in session and children are back on the playgrounds and sports fields. They’re having fun, learning teamwork and getting exercise. And some of them will suffer injuries. ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Southwest health notes

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

Chilling news

SAN JOSE, Calif. — All I know about climate, some say, is what’s outside my window. Across much of California this is one of the coolest summers in memory, with temperatures wel...

DATE: Aug 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

House delays farm measure

Political posturing about who or what is delaying action on a much-needed farm bill came into sharper focus when the Republican speaker of the U.S. House refused to appoint members to a conf...

DATE: Aug 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

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