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Ten Reasons for Bronco Fans to Chill over the 2021 Draft

Some Bronco fans are freaking out over the 2021 draft because Denver didn’t draft a quarterback. It doesn’t help when sportswriters like Woody Paige give Denver an F for the draft as a result. Paige reminds me of my late father-in-law, who, in his dementia, would ask me why Denver wasn’t running an interception play […]

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Growing a Healthier Future: School Gardening in Colorado

Earth Day. Twenty-four hours to celebrate the Earth and all its natural resources. Students plant and proudly bring their prized bean sprouts home–only to be left and forgotten on the window sill. One day for students to learn about gardening is not enough to create a lifetime of love and respect for nutrition or the

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Physical Abuse: A Silent Tragedy throughout America

Here’s a story about six young people from not so long ago who lived in a town called Freeport and dealt with physical abuse in various ways. Paul Henry was 12 years-old, a dreamy, quick-footed kid from a large family of all sisters and no father. He was walking home one evening in October from

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My Imaginary Funeral Blues (With Profuse Apologies to W.H. Auden)

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. “Funeral Blues” – W.H Auden   Once, I heard someone say that if you want to get a firm handle on your true

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The Crowded Theater in the Global Village

Danny Moore is one of twelve members of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Committee. The other eleven members – Four Democrats, four Independents, and the three other Republicans – recently voted to remove Moore from his role as Committee Chair after some of his Facebook posts had been revealed by the Colorado Springs Gazette and other

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