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Wow! It’s a flashback! It reminds me what it was like when I was growing up in Denver in the ’50s. Back then, gasoline price wars...

Obama fails again...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: German theologian Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a central figure in the rebellion against the Catholic Church that led to the Protestant Reformation. You’ll never guess where he was when he was struck by the epiphany that became the core ...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been one full year since retail cannabis shops opened, and two full years that cannabis has been legal in Colorado. So much has happened, but the best news of all is that, all things considered, the experiment seems to be working...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions,” says poet Robert Bly. That’s why he decided to learn to love his obsessions. I urge you to keep his approach in mind throughout the coming months, Aries. You are likely ...

Plants can talk, according to Cassandra Maffey; if they’re growing in the right kind of soil. By excreting specific carbohydrate sugars from their roots,...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Consumer Reports says that between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose from about...

Dear Dan: I’ve been with my girlfriend “J” for two years. Her best friend “M” is a gay man she’s known since high school....

On Feb. 19, some 70 elected officials from various Colorado counties and municipalities signed a letter obviously penned by some PR hack from the oil and gas industry (it reeks like a typical Colorado Oil and Gas Association ploy, but who knows). The letter is a big ...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “I have tried in my way to be free,” sings Leonard Cohen in his song “Bird on a Wire.” In other words, he has done the best he can to liberate himself from his unconscious patterns, bad habits and self-delusions. He hasn’t been perfect in his...

Ah the good old days of getting stoned. If you smoked pot, you just called the usual suspects to find a bag, drove over,...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In 1993, Frenchman Emile Leray was on a solo trip through the Sahara Desert. In the middle of nowhere, his car suffered a major breakdown. It was unfixable. But he didn’t panic. Instead, he used a few basic tools he had on hand to dismantle ...