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June 12, 2025 - Volume XXIV, No. 22

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Another round of precipitation shrouds Engineer Mountain in rain as seen near Haviland Lake this week./ Photo by Missy Votel

Big? Definitely ...

Big? Definitely ...

but Colorado utilities see no beauty in Trump’s reconciliation budget bill

Making a run

Bayfield Republican announces bid to challenge Rep. Jeff Hurd

Leave it to beavers

Leave it to beavers

Festival celebrates the furry critters that keep our ecosystem flowing

A lethal blow

Why CPW killed a wolf suspected of preying on Pitkin County livestock

Blue Lakes blues

Blue Lakes blues

Popular destination closed for summer for resource management

June 12, 2025

Flying in face of logic

June 12, 2025

Tariffs hurt rural renewable projects

June 12, 2025

We can't eat money

June 5, 2025

CPW must stem hostility toward wolves

June 5, 2025

Is your life better now?

May 29, 2025

Animas Valley Land Use Plan unfair

May 29, 2025

An attack on community health

May 29, 2025

Defeat cruel budget bill

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Animas River at Durango,Co
Discharge, cubic feet per second

More at: waterdata.usgs.gov

The Pole

Ear to the Ground

"I made it back into the boat. My pants didn't."
--When a man-overboard situation in the River Days parade goes horribly awry

Lofty dreams: There’s about to be another reason to pull off 1-70 in Idaho Springs other than Beau Jo’s pizza. Work began last week on a $58 million gondola that will haul people 1,300 feet up the mountain from the historic Argo Mill in town.; Read More

Thumbin' It

Colorado Avs superstar Cale Makar won his second Norris Trophy – making him one of just six players with multiple Norris trophies and a Conn Smythe, and keeping him on the path to GOAT status. Guess if we can't win The Cup, we'll take this.

Well, looks like we're having a pretty good dress rehearsal for authoritarianism with the calling in of the National Guard and U.S. Marines to quell anti-ICE protestors in California. Maybe Trump can ship them all to Alcatraz...

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Haiku Movie Review

Mountainhead

I wish I could say
each vapid character dies
painfully and slow

~Lainie Maxson

This Week's Sign of the Downfall

Yeast Affection

According to Zhao Meng, of the Wuhan Wudong Hospital, young adults in China are facing increasing academic and economic pressure. As a result, many are turning to “static pets,” such as mango pits or paper boxes, because they require less attention than traditional pets such as cats. And recently, “pet yeast,” which is nicknamed “face worm” by enthusiasts, has risen to the top as the most popular static pet in China. There’s even an online community of “yeast parents” that has doubled in size recently. But in a somewhat morbid turn, some yeast parents admit that when they get tired of their pets, they add more flour to the mix and eat their babies in the form of steamed buns.

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