Everyone is aching, yearning, for solutions to stop school shootings. About a year before the shooting at Columbine we lived in Eugene, Oregon. Ac...

As most of you probably know already, last Saturday was World Naked Gardening Day. According to the official web site “the intention is good clean fu...

Sometimes the only way to describe the news is earth-shattering. In a single day I heard two related, hard hitting, dynamic news flashes that rocked...

Awhile back someone stopped me at the Post Office and said they liked the paper but wished we would write a little less about our grandkids and deal w...

I don’t listen to a lot of national or world news. The insanity of things that are happening is enough to at best, shake your head in disbelief, or ...

Next Monday, April 15 is the day that something has to be done about your income taxes. Since late January you could submit your taxes but next Monda...

I went into a men’s public restroom last weekend on a trip to see my mom. Above the urinal was a neon sign beseeching everyone to “please flush when ...

All 30 Major League Baseball teams will take the field today, March 28, for the earliest opening day in history outside of international openers. Mar...

We returned on Friday from a week’s long stay in Chapel Hill, NC. - a good place for a conservative to stay mute. Anyway, putting aside the normal TS...

Last Saturday I attended a celebration in Quinter, Kansas. Some people would refer to it as a funeral. If, when you hear the word funeral, you thin...

Here are a few statistics to mull over at your next meal. Now that babies in live births can be “aborted” in some states: New York, Alaska, Colorado...

You want to feel patriotism? Saturday night I had the opportunity to stand with nearly 20,000 other people with my hand on my heart while a talented...

I’ve noticed for the last several weeks I’ve gotten more political. It seems to go in cycles. Sometimes I can’t believe what is going on in politi...

The National Popular Vote interstate compact is being considered by the Colorado legislature. Colorado Senate Bill 19042, if approved would make Col...

In an effort to become a little more cultured and expand our horizons, my wife and decided to go to the Biannual UCCS Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition...

The government shutdown is over – for three weeks. That’s how long the temporary funding will last before the country and a portion of the nation’s f...

Although I haven’t been on Facebook since May 2011, I understand there was some discussion on that social media outlet about the lack of coverage of ...

Our six month old grandson, Duke, got sick last week. My wife was visiting the grand-kids last Tuesday and his mother had noticed that Duke felt r...

I pulled a few meager coins out of my pocket and paid for some Christmas decorations that were marked 75% off. As soon as I got these from the store...

I enjoy writing the four part year-in-review series each year (Part three is in this paper). It reminds me how many things actually do go on in the...

On Christmas morning we open presents with kids and grandkids. Then, somwwhere around noon, they load up their stuff and head for the other half of...

We have so much. According to Gallup the median annual household income in the world is $9,733. According to recent numbers in the United States, ou...

I spent some time in Kansas last week. Traveling to my childhood home is always full of memories, always more good memories than bad. I also enjoyed p...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that life expectancy is down, in part due to the increase in drug overdoses. The most recen...

Lori grew up skiing. Her dad and mom could both ski. Her four siblings could ski. She went to college in Gunnison and at CU-Boulder, in part becau...

Richard Lee Poage died in Augusta, Kansas on November 8. Among other things he did during his life was to be the Head Football Coach at Trego Communi...

I am ashamed to admit I don’t remember much about Jeff. He started at semester when I was a sophomore at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. He ...

My wife and I decided to attend a Murder Mystery Dinner at the Briarhurst Manor in Manitou Springs to celebrate Halloween. The Manor was built in 18...

In a story first broken by Bloomberg News it was revealed that Facebook was at the center of a security breach that may have compromised the ...

In Pueblo County as of June 5, 2018 there were 111,792 registered voters. In Colorado there is no registration deadline so if you are not registered...

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