Barnhart: Learning to live with the uncertainty of parenting
The primary educators and caregivers of children are their parents. It actually does not take a village to raise a child, it only takes parents.
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GOP lawmakers’ attendance at Trump trial could be a problem during a key vote today
At least nine Republican lawmakers traveled to New York to appear in court alongside former President Trump on Thursday, the latest in a string of GOP lawmakers to attend the hush money trial.
Broncos ’24 schedule includes prime-time matchups against Browns, Saints
For the second time in three years, the Broncos will open their season visiting a former division rival.
Record Thursday: Dow hits 40,000-point mark, all three indexes look set to extend record highs
U.S. stocks nudged higher Thursday as investors looked to extend a springtime rally that has lifted all three major benchmarks to all-time highs following a muted inflation report and renewed bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates.
Investigation: South Adams County FD’s trips may be ‘violation of public trust’, says ethics expert
Top fire chiefs and administrators with the South Adams County Fire Department, along with some of their board members, have regularly taken their spouses along to winter conferences in Florida and fall conferences in Colorado’s high country, billing taxpayers for their spouses’ meals and other expenses, and extending their stays before and after conferences.
Protest of USPS plan to move mail from Grand Junction to Denver may have been successful
The U.S. Postal Service will pause a plan to reroute mail from the Western Slope to Denver after dozens of Senators from both parties protested the changes.
New rules to address bad child protection actors who may go undetected from county to county
A child protection caseworker in Colorado who gets caught falsifying records or lying about checking on children in one county can get a job in another county. And then another.
Longmont’s Schlagel family has farmed sugar beets for four generations under shadow of Rocky Mountains
Paul Schlagel’s family was one of the many Volga German families who came to Colorado more than a century ago and grew the crop they knew: sugar beets. Their first sugar beet crop in northern Colorado was harvested in 1911. His father purchased the farm from his mother and began farming on the current farm in 1963. Next year will be his 50th crop.
Why don’t U.S. medical schools produce more medical doctors?
What would happen if the U.S. military needed 1 million people in the Armed Forces but decided to cap domestic enlistment at 750,000 U.S. citizens and to recruit the rest abroad? Or what would happen if U.S. policy was designed to import 25 percent of its lawyers or teachers from elsewhere in the world, not because this country lacks people who are interested in and capable of pursuing those professions, but simply because the U.S. would rather hire foreigners for those jobs? That would be absurd—and it happens to be exactly how the system for training and hiring doctors in America operates today.
Devotional: What the Old and New Testament have to say on immigration
The contributions of immigrants have enriched our country’s strength and diversity, a fact that we should all appreciate.