Today's News

In the waning hours of the legislative session earlier this month, leadership in the Colorado House of Representatives used procedural delaying tactics to kill a civil-unions bill that otherwise had the votes to pass. In a special session less than a week later, the same bill was assigned to a different committee, resulting in it being killed a second time — again, when it had the votes to pass the whole House.

May has had its usual fling of one last snowstorm. Fortunately, this year it was just about four inches, not the four feet it brought us a few years ago. Now that it has succeeded in ruining Mother’s Day for a good many people, it seems to be clearing up and the coming week’s forecast looks like we will be having not just spring, but summer weather.

Many people have reusable bags for carrying grocery items but forget them when making a trip to the store, says Tupper Briggs of Evergreen’s Alliance for Sustainability.Those who leave their tote bags at home or in their cars often bring groceries home in plastic bags, most of which wind up in landfills, Briggs says.
While handing out reusable bags at area stores recently, Briggs conducted a survey and learned that people unintentionally fail to use them.

Traumatic memories of her time in Vietnam began haunting veteran Army nurse Nancy Arsenault after her retirement in 2007.