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Mixed messages

Driving home after midnight from a Wilco concert in Denver, without seeing one car between Sedalia and Palmer Lake, I turned on the radio in time to hear this observation from the host: "Imagine the reaction if President Obama came out tomorrow and said, 'Michelle and I have enjoyed a wonderful marriage that has allowed us to live and love as swingers over the past 10 years.'"

It made me think: Imagine instead that Obama came out tomorrow and said, "I want to share with you the fact that I have made millions on my Bain investments in offshore holdings in the Cayman Islands...

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Motivational seeker

Grammy winner Alvin Youngblood Hart goes looking for that old-time electricity

Lamborn: Yes, we're upset

Between the Lines

What might be an appropriate response to his latest shameful shenanigan, boycotting the State of the Union address?

Dumped?

A year later, the 'We Think Local' campaign is MIA.

Close UP

Frack-happy Ultra Petroleum is the city's largest private landowner. What kind of neighbor might it be?

Ultra has flown under the radar in Colorado, but in other states, it's racked up more than 200 violations, faces a lawsuit, and has been forced to put millions toward its pollution reduction.

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Turner classic

Impressive theater pedigrees add promise to TheatreWorks' staging of a 20th-century tour de force Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

 Film

Close, but no cigar: Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs has for nearly three decades been Glenn Close's passion project — ironic, then, that it completely lacks passion.

ACLU Winter Forum — “Religion and Public Schools: Reconciling Personal Faith and the School’s Role”

A lecture and discussion hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union, with Kristy Milligan of Citizens Project, author and attorney Theresa Lynn Sidebotham and others.
Tue., Jan. 31, 7-9 p.m.
CC's Worner Campus Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave.

Victim Advocacy Unit Training Academy

Volunteer for the Colorado Springs Police Department’s Victim Advocacy Unit, a program that provides immediate crisis intervention, follow-up support and more to victims of violent crime. VAU participants must meet certain requirements and attend the upcoming 10-week training program.
Classes begin Feb. 2.

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Re: Half-baked (Food & Drink - 01/26/2012)

Eric Cutty Castro (01/27/2012)

First off I would like to say that one so called food critic varies from to another and another thing is that some peoples ideas of home cooked meals are...

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Ender (01/27/2012)

Okay ben kenobi show me the "blood" that has been spilt since Gen Gould (did I get his rank right?) took over, the careers ruined, the families destroyed, the locusts...

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Re: Combat aviation brigade gets slammed (Special Section - 01/27/2012)

DOB (01/27/2012)

Alex Drowbridge, thanks for going to be heard, very smart input !

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    • The coffee itself is fine, but the owner, almost religiously expouses her alternative sexual lifestyle…

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    • The only reason this is a one star is because I can't give a zero…

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    • Check the dates on the other reviews, 2+ years old. There is new management and…

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