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| I have been thinking of T.S. Eliot a lot since Monday. He was right: Sometimes the biggest things end with a whimper. more... |
| In the aftermath of World War II, thousands of Quonset huts once used to house soldiers became surplus items. Desperate to provide housing for returning veterans, university officials throughout the country began acquiring these half-moon... | |
| The epic battle over health care reform being fought right now is about something even more critical than the health of Americans: It's about the health of our democracy as well. | |
| She had just lost a baby, but she lived still. Her house in a field of grass surrounded by split rail horse fence still stood. On the porch sat the front seat of a Dodge Dart: her bench. Each morning after, the swallows brought prairie grass and bits of... | |
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| My friends often ask me about the current situation in Pakistan, and I find myself attempting to explain how a nuclear armed country of 180 million people can be threatened by a band of criminals. In my response to their questions, I am drawn to... | |
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It’s definitely bike season, if the traffic on the Spring Creek Trail and in bike lanes is any indication. But even in bike-friendly cities like Fort Collins, that can mean butting heads — and helmets — in the old debate about bikes versus cars. |
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Are you ready for a new TransFort tax? That's what the city is recommending under the “Transit Strategic Plan.” |
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| When my son and I arrive in Northern California, it's early May and pouring rain. We are here with specific duties — to help my parents move, still. We aren't here to play and my son knows this: He stacks and boxes his grandmother's teacups without any... | |
| The Colorado State University Board of Governors (BOG) urgently needs to check into a rehab center to get over its self-destructive addiction to secrecy. As anybody attending a 12-step program can tell them, you're only as sick as your secrets. Judging... | |
| Long before settlers arrived to create conflict, even before trappers and hunters began roaming the hills west of Fort Collins, American Indian tribes quarreled with each other. The Arapahoe and the Utes were enemies, as were the Arapahoe and the... | |
| I wanted this column to be about something important, something happening right now in the world, something urgent. I began to look up words: pandemic, virus, epidemic, Spanish flu. I wanted to write about fear and anxiety and courage. | |
| Once upon a time, a beautiful place in Poudre Canyon caught the eye of pioneer Henry Peterson, man of many Fort Collins firsts. The view was breathtaking, the air clear and pure — a great place to settle. But after a few years he sold the land to Charles... | |
| Out on the stump this spring, the mayor had a great talking point about fiscal responsibility. When we were working on the budget, he'd say, we came up with a 13-page “stop doing” list of programs to cut and not a single resident complained. | |
| When it comes to flu outbreaks, you can't spell pandemic without panic. | |
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This column is about to be obsolete. Why would you need to read a Jurassic-era newspaper article about politics when you can follow the politicians themselves, who will tell you everything you need to know in 140 characters or less? |
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