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Notes: Imagine the Possibilities

January 6, 2010 Like 1 Andra Coberly

Stephanie, the one female student in the small class, was reading aloud when I walked in and took a seat at a large table along with six students. Despite the interruption, she plugged away, scooping words off the page like…

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Elf You

December 14, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

The holidays are about tradition. And they are about doing things for the good of tradition—because your mom wants to see the Nutcracker for the 64th time, because your dad adores fruit cake, because your wife wants to take the…

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Pine Away

December 3, 2009 Like 0 James Burrus

When I was a kid, I knew it was Christmas when after going to church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my parents loaded up my brother, Danny, and I (and later David) into the blue, ’60s vintage Buick Skylark station…

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Dear Santa…

December 3, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

There are a lot of things I’d like for my >INSERT APPROPRIATE SECULAR HOLIDAY HERE< gift this year. So, I decided the fair thing to do would be to list them all here, so my legions of readers and fans…

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Everything’s Coming Up Pink

December 3, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I thought the Paris Hilton fad was done. I thought we were over her, and by “we,” I mean whoever found her worthy of attention in the first place. I thought it was now uncool to dislike her, passé even.…

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Thumbin’ It

November 12, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Hitchhiking has always been good to me, but I can’t say the same for a certain drunk who once rolled in an early ‘70s Opel GT. His car was on the verge of a coronary; it was merely fate that…

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Mind the Gap

November 12, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

When the federal government buoyed GM and Chrysler, in newsrooms across the country, reporters and editors thought to themselves, “What about us?”

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Longmont Shifts Gears

November 4, 2009 Like 1 Andra Coberly

Election night is all said and done. The winners have sipped their champagne and the losers have thanked their supporters. Throughout the area, we had some surprising council shifts and also expected victories.

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Larimer Sheriff Gets Feedback… and Then Some

October 23, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

If you thought the news coverage of the Heene Balloon Extravaganza was crazy, you should check out the newest online column from Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden.

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Elections are Report Cards

October 19, 2009 Like 0 James Burrus

Challenging an incumbent in a primary election is a clear signal that A) the extreme fringe of the party is upset about said incumbent tracking to center or B) severe incompetence or grievous moral lapse has chummed the waters.