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Doing the Beltway Two-Step
D.C. … Once a year, my state commissioner association pays for me to travel to Washington, D.C., for the National Association of Counties’ Legislative session. This year they paid for Commissio...
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Too Much Stuff
The time-suck of expectant parent gizmos…
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Brady Quinn a Brilliant Replacement for Chris Simms
It remains to be seen how well Brady Quinn will play for the Broncos but one this is for sure: Quinn will make for a better backup than Chris Simms.
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On The Brink
An homage to Peter Brinkman, charismatic ski school leader who died young, at 74.
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UP BEAR CREEK
Mexican New Mex Fusion in Santa Fe
In this week’s Up Bear Creek: A restaurant name correction, a review of books, a call for recognition of Liu Xiao-bo, Leonard Peltier, and those murdered at Wounded Knee.
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Could Expansion of Big 10 Spell Opportunity for a Beleaguered Notre Dame?
With college football changing at a rapid rate, is Notre Dame at risk of falling behind into oblivion?
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The Things We Carry
If only we could choose which of our parents’ traits to inherit.
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The Oscar and The Killer Whale
The Oscar and The Killer Whale
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UP BEAR CREEK
Doing Poetry Down in Old Mexico
Field notes from a poetry conference in Mexico.
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I’ll Take John Daly Over Tiger Woods Any Day
The list of everything John Daly has done is three times as long as Tiger Woods’ list, yet I can’t help to like Daly and dislike Woods.
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Judy Shepard Asks: ‘Why is “Gay” an Insult in the First Place?’
Judy Shepard comes to Gay Ski Week with one message: Erase Hate.
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Wake-Up Call
Early-morning visitors shake up the routine, but when everything settles down, coffee is made (and the miscreants are caught), several favorite movies have been revisited
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Learning the Tao of T’ang Poetry
The Tao of T’ang Poetry that remains pertinent through the millennia…
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Trying to Endure a Pregnant Ski Season
‘I can’t help but feel envious of all of my blissfully soccer ball-free cohorts, whisking around on Dynamo without a care in the world.’
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GUEST COMMENTARY
Ouray School District R1 Board Report
Update on FY11 Budget Process
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The Geezers Club
Two nervous cats with new knees, new hips and a favorite mountain.
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Tiger Woods as Arrogant as Ever in Media Spectacle
Did you buy his apology?
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Volcano erupts in Iceland; US flights diverted (AP)

This frame grab from APTN shows the volcano near the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier, the fifth largest glacier in Iceland, as it begins erupting early Sunday morning March 21, 2010. Fearing flooding from the glacier melt, authorities evacuated some 400 people in the area 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of the capital, Reykjavik, as a precaution but no damage or injuries have been reported according to authorities. The last time the volcano erupted was in the 1820s. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beneath a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency said Sunday.


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Tea party protesters use racial epithet against Georgia's John Lewis (McClatchy Newspapers)

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is questioned by reporters about an incident involving tea party demonstrators as he leaves a speech by President Obama to House Democrats on Saturday, March 20, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.


Sat Mar 20 18:21:00 -0500 2010
Mexico's drug war takes growing toll on Americans (AP)

Police, Army and paramedics stand next to a pick-up truck with the bodies of two men dead in the cabin on the Mazatlan-Culiacan highway near the town of Elota, Mexico, Saturday March 20, 2010. According to authorities at least 8 men were killed during the incident in what appears to be an ambush of a crime gang by a rival group. (AP Photo/Christiann Davis)AP - More Americans in Mexico are falling victim to a wave of drug violence sweeping the country, a change driven home by the recent killing of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband who were gunned down after leaving a children's birthday party.


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