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The Legacy of the 10th Mountain Division, Part 1: Formation and Warfare

DeLyn Winters, Nonfiction, Writings / By a featured contributor

In the first of a three-part series, guest author Mary Stevens highlights the accomplishments of America’s 10th Mountain Division, a specially-trained Army unit that succeeded in combat in ways no one else had before. Post-war veterans set about changing Colorado’s image and economy well into the future. Look for “Part 2: Ski Towns and Industry” […]

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The Widefield Aquifer, Pollution, and Remedies

Nature, Nonfiction, Student Writings, Writings, Writings / By a featured contributor

The Widefield Aquifer serves as a cautionary water pollution tale for Southern Colorado and beyond. It supplies drinking water to over 80,000 people in Widefield, Fountain, and Security, or Southern El Paso County. The first documented case of water pollution in the Widefield Aquifer occurred in 1982. Since then, humans have contaminated it incessantly. This

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Funeral Attire

Fiction / By a featured contributor

I The twenty-two guests, having been treated to some very good wine and hors d’Oeuvres, were now cautiously descending the wide and elegant staircase of Imagone Funeral Home to the main parlor on the first floor. A spring snowstorm was fussing outside, with large flakes blowing every which way under an ambivalent late afternoon

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Microtransactions and the Video Game Industry

Analysis, Nonfiction, Student Writings / By a featured contributor

I love video games. They allow me to connect with friends, talk on a headset, strategize to eliminate the opposition, and so on. But there’s trouble in paradise. A recently adopted business model involving microtransactions mixes poorly with video gamers. Microtransactions are small online financial transactions. They’re useful to some industries, but in the world

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Front Row Seat to a Nervous Breakdown

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction / By a featured contributor

Living with severe depression and other mental issues is a very strange experience. For me it started early. I was about 14. But I hid it well. I was ashamed of my feelings, so I learned to bury them. That worked for a decade and a half. Then I just lost it. Complete nervous breakdown.

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Nuclear Waste Disposal Needs More Attention

Analysis / By a featured contributor

A small desert town simmered lazily in the hot Nevada sun. The once-lively line of small shops and diners had become a ghost town, including the tumbleweeds that drifted across the street. An unnerving silence was shattered by the clacking of train tracks as a large self-driving train rolled through the center of the abandoned

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