Report: Impact of wage growth on inflation dwarfed by corporate profiteering
President Joe Biden is calling on oil and gas companies to start steering record profits away from shareholder pockets to give Americans some relief at the pump.
About Town – June 20, 2022
Life in Eads and Kiowa County, Colorado, as observed by Doris Lessenden.
Opinion: Setting the table for rural-urban collaboration at spur
Food brings people together – around the dinner table, at picnics, and on restaurant patios. Sometimes, though, food production and its complexities spark a tension between rural and urban communities and drive us apart. But today, no matter where we live, the urgent challenge of feeding our world while grappling with diminishing water and land resources has to bring us all together as never before, to create new opportunities and solutions and protect the planet that sustains us all.
CPW Southeast Region Manager Brett Ackerman leaving CPW after 22-year career
Brett Ackerman, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Southeast Region Manager since 2019, is leaving the agency after a 22-year career
Vehicle registration renewal reminders to resume July 6
Due to end of fiscal year programming updates, motor vehicle registration renewal reminders for Coloradans’ whose vehicle registrations expire in July 2022 will not be mailed in June.
Canada, Denmark agree to resolve Arctic border dispute
A long-standing and mainly good-natured border dispute between Canada and Denmark over the uninhabited Hans Island in the Arctic Sea is to be resolved.
Babies don’t come with instruction manuals, so here are 5 tips for picking a parenting book
Children are at once joyful, sad, confusing, predictable, generous, selfish, gentle and mean. What’s a parent to do when faced with such perplexing offspring?
Jesus’ earthly dad, St. Joseph – often overlooked – is honored by Father’s Day in many Catholic nations
The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. Many countries with a Catholic heritage, however, such as Portugal and Spain, have already honored fathers on March 19: the feast of St. Joseph, husband of Mary and patron saint of fathers.
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days
There were, in fact, 20 separate emancipations in the United States alone, from 1780 to 1865, across the U.S. North and South.
The January 6 hearings are tailor-made for social media – that doesn’t mean they’re reaching a wide audience
In the days following the Jan. 6 attack, many pundits seemed baffled that the insurrectionists had stormed the Capitol with phones in hand, taking videos and selfies. This seemed self-incriminating, and it turned out to be. Yet scholars of the far-right have long discussed how social media has been essential to that community.
