Venetucci Farm is one of Colorado Springs’ beloved local assets. It has come a long way over the years. The Venetucci family began plowing the fields off the dirt roads outside the city in the 1930s. Growing up, Nick Venetucci watched his father work long, hard hours in a coal mine. He wanted to earn […]
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Bankruptcy is almost here although many don’t even realize this. It’s time for Americans to get serious and ask themselves why the United States government consistently spends far more than it makes. This fiscal policy has placed our country in terrible jeopardy. In 2010, for instance, the U.S. government spent $3.5 trillion yet only took in around $2.16 trillion in total
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A total lunar eclipse on April 15, 2014 obsessed our media. It was a part of a Blood Moon Tetrad. Tetrads consists of four successive total lunar eclipses, with no partial lunar eclipses in between, each separated from the other by six full moons. “Blood moon” refers to the deep red color of the moon
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In 1961, at age 19, I began teaching first grade in western North Dakota. My students consisted of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara children, descendants of the native tribes who’d lived there for centuries, with equal numbers of ranch kids and those whose dads worked the oil fields. Only fourteen years earlier I had been a
A watershed is an elevated land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers. The South Platte watershed provides Colorado with 75% of its municipal water. Yet ongoing threats from weather and human activity damage this fragile ecosystem. Preventing contamination of the water source requires constant maintenance. The Coalition for the Upper
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Many of the Christians I know believe that the Big Bang is in direct opposition to the Bible. However, what if the Big Bang is just a physical expression of the same creation story found in Genesis? Before some of you dismiss the notion, let me give you some background on myself. The first seventeen
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