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Quiet Desperation
I will never be recognized as the first to do anything. I wasn’t the first in my family to graduate from high school or college, or become a schoolteacher, or nothing. Unless you stretch it. I was …
Winning Words
A few years ago, we all talked about the easy button. It was a meme before there was anything even known as a meme. There was an icon with a big red button that we all recognized without hesitation, …
Financial Strategies
As you start the new year, you may have an opportunity to boost your retirement savings thanks to sweeping changes in the SECURE Act bill that was passed and signed into law in December 2019. This …
Quiet Desperation
My father was born 100 years ago today as I write this. There hasn’t been a day since he died in 2008 that I haven’t thought about him, and more this day than usual simply because of the …
Winning Words
An employed entrepreneur? How can that be? I mean, we are either employed or we are an entrepreneur, right? The answer is yes. This is because most successful entrepreneurs will share that even …
The statistics are staggering and alarming. Every 23 seconds a person sustains an injury to the brain in the United States. In Colorado alone, there are more than 500,000 individuals who have …
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Letters to the Editor
Put onus on universities Gov. Polis has seen fit to make a donation in all taxpayers’ names to a cause he sees as worthy, repaying two years of some graduates’ college loans. That may be a worthy …
Up to interpretation? Regardless of whether you support gun control or not, it appears that the Douglas County policy is the most unclear and potentially overreaching when comparing views between …
Senator effective, bipartisan Sen. Gardner has been characterized as “not doing anything” for Colorado. Actually, he has done a lot for us. I was most impressed with Ambassador Nikki Haley …
One extreme to another The sad saga of George Shipley and the barking dog once again highlights the extreme spectrum of effectiveness an HOA can operate in. On one hand, back in the 1990s, we had the …
Going to the dogs We too live in quiet desperation due to the entitled thinking of a neighbor with a barking dog. Since they moved in a year ago, we are awakened daily between 3 and 5 a.m. to their …
Thank you After noting the absence of a Toys for Tots effort in Castle Pines Village last year, a couple of Marines teamed up with Louie Lee, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker, to reinstitute the …
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