The Rodgers, Homeless Colorado Family Of Four, Struggle To Stay … For nearly a year, the Rodgers family has been homeless, unable to find work and quickly burning through their food stamps. Bouncing between friends’ houses and homeless shelters, Robert and Andrea Rodgers and their two young daughters … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/ — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 [...]

The scenic Upper Colorado River between its headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park and its confluence with the Roaring Fork River has landed the sixth spot on the America’s Most Endangered Rivers list. Threatened by two major diversion projects that would suck even more of its flow from the Western Slope to the middle-of-the-day, Kentucky-bluegrass, [...]

DENVER – This Memorial Day is very special for at least one family from Colorado. Andrew Folley missed out on spending Christmas with his kids, his anniversary with his wife and plenty of other special occasions because he’s been in Iraq, fighting in the war. Enclosure: 100531115809_iraq-soldier3.jpg (10.0 Bytes) Read More Family welcomes home soldier [...]

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Friday reinstated a year-long “time out” on road building on more than 58 million acres of public lands in 39 states, including more than 4 million acres in Colorado. “While the courts continue to wrestle with roadless policy, I will continue to work with the USDA Forest Service to ensure we [...]

Sen. Mark Udall promised to keep battling for beetle kill funding Friday after his bid for $50 million in emergency funds for the Forest Service and National Park Service was rejected as an amendment to the emergency supplemental bill. Udall was seeking $42 million for the Forest Service and $8 million for the Park Service [...]

Why has Memorial Day, like so many of our national holidays, been reduced to appliance sales, fast food specials, and vacation deals? With the recent near-collapse of our economy, the ways in which we understand and celebrate national holidays seem particularly challenged. This erosion of meaning is just one of many examples of the growing [...]

A pair of articles on the future of two very different Colorado rivers this week in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel and the Denver Post surfed right past the very real environmental concerns presented by ongoing energy development. The Sentinel looked at how Xcel Energy’s Shoshone 14-megawatt hydroelectric power plant on the Colorado River in [...]

Memorial Day is a federal holiday of United States of America. This day is very important for us. This day is not only a holiday; this is a glorious victory day in the remembrance for those men and women in military services who have died in our nation’s service. Memorial Day is originally known as [...]

Mountaineering is a sport that many come to Leadville for and is a specialized form of mountain climbing that involves use of rock and ice. In addition to the usual camping supplies needed, here is a list of supplies that a mountaineer needs to conquer her mountain. Quick Draws: Quick draws, or the quickdraw, is [...]

Across the state it seems that the citizens have nominated several liberty candidates. The following are the liberty minded republican candidates who were nominated at the Colorado Assembly on Saturday May 23, 2010: Stephen Bailey – Congressional District 2 running against incumbent Jared Polis (D) (Stephen will be in a primary on August 10, 2010, [...]