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Getting Rid of Your Private Mortgage Insurance By: Kareen Kinzli Larsen, Realtor RE/MAX Alliance You know that feeling of finding a $20 bill in the back pocket of jeans you haven’t worn in months? Well, […]
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Revisiting the “Dinosaur Wars,” and scientists behaving badly
Bio Bites By R. Gary Raham My wife and I spent a pleasant October weekend recently “leaf peeking” in southern Colorado and visiting a historic site near Canõn City: the dinosaur quarries of the […]
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A history of running
When I was a ninth-grader in Seattle, Washington in 1951, the criterion for getting an “A” in physical education had nothing at all to do with moving one’s body. All you had to do was […]
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The warming Arctic: promise, peril, & lost treasures
Bio Bites By R. Gary Raham Global warming is not hypothetical or mysterious to (most) governments and big business. Both these classes of human endeavor are scrambling to stake claims on the segment […]
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Far Left? Far Right? No, “Centrist!”
In 1993, North Forty News launched as a monthly newspaper to fill a vacuum of lack of hyper-local information in cities, mountain towns, and rural areas in Northern Larimer County. At the time, printing costs […]
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SLOW FOOD, SURE! BUT SLOW RECREATION?
We are all painfully aware of the frantic pace of modern life. But have you ever come off a weekend, so jam-packed with leisure activities that you feel as if you’ve worked straight through from […]
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Fort Collins Weekly Gas Price Update
By Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis pdehaan@gasbuddy.com | 773-644-1427 | @GasBuddyGuy Fort Collins gas prices are unchanged in the past week, averaging $2.67/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 119 stations. Gas prices in […]
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Don’t call it a comeback, I have been here for years
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1497372890561290/ Whitney Allison, a woman determined to change the face of women’s cycling, a fighter for equal pay, and a disciplined athlete, took 2nd on Stage 1, 12th on Stage 2, and maintaining 10th GC […]
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CONNECTING COMMUNITIES….
And the People Who Live In Them Some folks wonder about the concept of a “weekly regional newspaper.” But there are parts of the country where covering more than one city or town makes perfect […]
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Never apologize for your reading taste
“Never apologize for your reading taste” – Betty Rosenberg. As a librarian with thirty years’ experience, one thing (among many) that has consistently struck me has been the variation and wide polar differences in […]