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This reminder that there is indeed no activity you can undertake that doesn’t involve the State of Colorado having its hand in your pocket. I’m sure that paying a use tax is the first thing […]

A strange thing happened on the way to your mailbox. In August, the North Forty News made its usual month-end visit to the Wellington Post Office to process the 15,000 newspapers direct-mailed to our readers, […]

Bring up the subject of affordable high-speed Internet to some of our rural Larimer County readers, and a frequent reply is “High-speed? Heck, we haven’t even got low-speed — which is just a notch above […]

Transitional Colorado Assessment Program testing is under way in local schools. We’re not allowed to show you the process — even if we wanted to — according to the Colorado Department of Education. If we […]

When Larimer County Board of County Commissioners convened a June 2011 work session to discuss continuing deficits at the county-owned and -managed The Ranch events complex, Public Works Division Director Marc Engemoen didn’t have good […]

We’re looking forward to this year’s Budweiser Super Bowl commercials. At $3.5 million for each 30-second spot, Anheuser-Busch hopes that their 10 or so Bud commercials are memorable and create a social-media buzz for months […]

Happy New Year to our NFN readers! We’re looking forward to the end of this dad-nabbed double-dip recession, but also have a few predictions for 2012: • Despite what the Mayan calendar foretells, the world […]

If you’ve participated in a visioning process, some of you may share our skepticism. Having suffered through at least a dozen economic development visioning exercises (also known as charrettes) over the last 30 years, we […]