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Schultheis asks, “Is it really ‘patriotic’ to contribute less to your country?”
The Broncos have all the pieces to the puzzle in place to be a successful team; the question John Fox must figure out is how to prepare and motivate this team week in and week out.
The final price tag for saving our daughter’s life, around $120,000, is well more than we make in a year. Martinique Davis on why universal health care is a basic human right.
Not only has Lane Kiffin been ineffective as a play-caller at USC – he’s a media nightmare.
In which carving, skidding and black currant syrup inform the author’s journey to skiing competence, and love.
“There’s no silver bullet, but it’s clear that a steady supply of good jobs is critical. This was also the message I received recently at a roundtable of area business owners, from Pagosa Springs...
A good head coach is as important, if not more important, than any other player on a football team.
Turn your back for a second, and toddlers will inevitably find something that could kill them.
In which the authors learns that the perfect turn is not the point.
Republicans used to be much better than this; men like Eisenhower, Ford, and yes, Richard Nixon believed deeply in political compromise for the common good; they were patriots first and Republicans...
The early 1970s in Telluride were heady times.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
photos
BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
Law enforcement officials in San Miguel County are searching for the whereabouts of 33-year-old Matthew Busker, who was reported missing on Monday. (Courtesy photo_

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

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