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WOLF AND ANDY waited for their cue.
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By Gus Jarvis
DENVER – After a seemingly painless entry through security and into the Pepsi Center perimeter, we finally made it into our bird’s-eye view press section. The arena started to fill with delegates as we sat down and waited for Howard Dean’s call to order.
And what a transfigurati...
Aug 25, 2008 | 1 | 28 |
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By Gus Jarvis
LODO – “This is in every way a political issue,” said Chuck Kutscher, principal engineer and manager of the Thermal Systems Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.
In an steamy white tent on Wynkoop Street, blocks away from the Pepsi Center, four authors and...
Aug 25, 2008 | 4 | 24 |
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By Gus Jarvis
LODO – “You’re going to age 20 years in the next four days”
That was the conversation I overheard late last night between two suited security employees of a swanky 16th Street Mall hotel. From the looks of it, the two had escorted the man from the hotel’s premises for reasons I ...
Aug 25, 2008 | 2 | 23 |
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By Carlos Cagin
This past spring, I read an article in the March 20th addition of Rolling Stone for a paper that I was writing about Barack Obama as the hero of American politics. The cover of the magazine showed Barack in a sort of supernatural portrait against a bright, almost holy, clo...
Aug 22, 2008 | 2 | 25 |
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By Gus Jarvis
(Three Days Until Convention)
TELLURIDE – The political epicenter of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is taking on the great city of Denver. For those of us who have lived in Colorado, or even the West, for that matter, hosting the Democratic National Convention in Denver w...
Aug 21, 2008 | 1 | 21 |
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By Carlos Cagin
I will not fulfill my duty as an objective reporter at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver. I go as an observer, as an American, like so many Americans throughout the country, who has been inspired and encouraged by Barack Obama's platform of hope. I am aware of...
Aug 21, 2008 | 0 | 22 |
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Quibblo.com - Is a great site that allows you to build custom quizzes that can then be embeded into your site, blog, email, or wherever else you would like for people to see it. Now primarily on the site currently are just juvenile quizzes based on "who you would like to date" or "what your ast...
Aug 20, 2008 | 3 | 23 |
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By Gus Jarvis
(Four Days Until Convention)
TELLURIDE – Has John McCain’s never-ending bashing of Barack Obama worked? Really? The pasty, old, waxy-looking Republican candidate has not shared any leadership ideas with the nation lately, just Obama bashing. And if today’s headlines read t...
Aug 19, 2008 | 1 | 27 |
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(Five Days Until Convention)
By Gus Jarvis
TELLURIDE – With less than a week to go, the countdown to Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention in Denver has begun. Rather, it began quite some time ago, even years ago for some, but for me, there are simply days left before the ...
Aug 19, 2008 | 1 | 26 |
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PDF documents are probably the most used file on the web next to .jpg, .gif, or text. The only problem is whether or not the person has the latest download of the reader or their connection speed. I mean the worst part is waiting for a download to happen only to open the doc and find out it is no...
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ALL AMERICA CITY MANAGER – Montrose City Manager Bill Bell flourished the award Sunday evening in Denver. Montrose was awarded the title of All America City this weekend. (Photo courtesy Scott Shine)
TELLURIDE ACADEMY STAFF – Gathered for a pre-season photo just prior to the Monday, June 10, launch of its 33rd Summer Season. (Courtesy photo)
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER – Trish Greenwood, Ridgway Elementary School’s new principal (here with husband Jim Nowak), is returning to the school where she began teaching, in 1989. (Courtesy photo)
HEALTHY FAWN – Leave them alone, even if they seem to be abandoned. They more-than-likely are not. (Photo courtesy of David Hannigan, Parks and Wildlife)
HIGH TIMES – The Gold Belt Theatre was part of the “small empire” of vice developed by the brothers Vanoli in late Victorian Ouray. The Ouray County Historical Society Evenings of History presentation next Tuesday (June 18) will look at artifacts from the Vanoli Block, and what it all means. (Courtesy photo)
BEN WAYNE LILLARD, 1957 - 2013
DIXIE KEITHLY, April 3, 1931 – June 9, 2013
TROUT LAKE is currently being drained in order for Xcel Energy, which owns the recreational area, to complete work on the output of the lake’s dam. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)