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• Possible explanations for mysterious cattle deaths: 2 letters

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  Re: “Who (or what) is killing Manuel Sanchez’s cattle?” Dec. 9 news story. There is a plausible scientific explanation for the livestock mutilations in Colorado. I watched a documentary a number of years ago on PBS, which filmed a carcass left in the wild and condensed it into a time-lapse film. The [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  

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• Qwest’s video strategy, AT&T’s network solutions

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  Quite a bit of consumer tech/telecom news this week. I’ll start with AT&T and its network problems. The company this week launched an iPhone app that allows subscribers to easily report service problems, such as dropped calls and poor voice quality. For the most part, I think reaction to the [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:39pm EST
  

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• Nightlife: Pre-show drinks and happy hour specials

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  The Denver Center for the Performing Arts may be your ultimate destination, but there are plenty of places to stop off before the show. For many theatergoers, preshow drinks are a ritual that must be performed. It’s the best way to meet up with friends, take a breather and get in [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:35pm EST
  

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• Rockies will attempt to reach resolution with Torrealba today; Updates on Contreras, Giambi; Astros sign Majewski

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  INDIANAPOLIS — The Rockies will meet with Yorvit Torrealba’s agent today in hopes of reaching a resolution on a two-year contract. The team also remains interested in bringing back Jose Contreras and Jason Giambi, though that’s a much slower-developing situation. Torrealba’s representatives have been canvassing other teams, exhausting all avenues. It [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:06am EST
  

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• Daily Deal-Gifts that Won’t Break Your Bank

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  I’m still trying to grasp the fact that Christmas is just over two weeks away!  This year has gone by incredibly fast.  I still haven’t figured out if it’s because we added baby number two ... [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:19am EST
  

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• Nobel ceremonies not so peaceful for Obama

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  Looks like Obama is trying avoiding another bow-gate by declining to meet Norway’s king while in Oslo to accept to Nobel Peace Prize. [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:51pm EST
  

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• Fallen fathers: Another cost of the nation’s wars: 2 letters

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  Re: “Children of fallen fathers,” Dec. 6 news story. Thank you for bringing to light another heartbreaking cost of these endless wars — a cost that has been largely overlooked. I’m deeply saddened — no, I’m deeply angered — by the way our military is treating the spouses, former spouses, and [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:04pm EST
  

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• Jim Tracy talks about Francis, Jimenez and hitting Hawpe fifth

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  INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Tracy, the National League’s reigning manager of the year, met the media today. There will be a longer form of this interview later, but here are some of the quick highlights. He indicated that Ubaldo Jimenez would enter spring training as the head of the rotation, that [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:09pm EST
  

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• Live review: Melt Banana @ the Bluebird Theater

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  A small crowd turned up at the Bluebird on Monday for the big sound of Japan’s Melt Banana. For the first 25 minutes of their set at the Bluebird Theater Monday night, Melt Banana blasted the crowd with a melange of noise and darkness — pierced only by the members’ head-mounted [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:37am EST
  

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• Basketball is the biggest loser in Donaghy v. NBA

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  Years from now when we look back at ex-NBA official Tim Donaghy’s book ‘Personal Foul,’ what will we say it accomplished? Donaghy’s bank account will no doubt benefit. The book, released last week, has everything a bestseller is made of – intrigue, deceit, cover-up, even a David vs. Goliath overtone as [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:45am EST
  

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• Get health care reform right the first time

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  Re: “Senate refining health bill,” Dec. 7 news story. Well, at last! As reported in Monday’s Post, our two U.S. senators appear to have rolled up their sleeves and entered the health care debate. They deserve thanks for their efforts to improve the efficiency of the health care delivery non-system. Let’s [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 5:07pm EST
  

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• Torrealba update: Team pushing hard, Olivo, Bard on radar

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  INDIANAPOLIS — The Rockies are trying to bridge the gap on a two-year deal to retain catcher Yorvit Torrealba, with Miguel Olivo emerging as a fallback plan. Torrealba wants to return, but is trying to reach a number that satisfies him. This much has been gleaned from multiple sources: the Rockies’ [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:55pm EST
  

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• Coloradans did not vote for Dr. Reefer

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  Chris Romer’s medical marijuana bill violates the will of voters based on faulty logic. [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  

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• News: Indie acts Josh Ritter, Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros to join rootsy regulars at 2010’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival

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  Bluegrass band Hot Rize, seen here playing the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2008, will return in 2010 — along with an impressive slate of bluegrass and indie rock musicians. Photo by Nathan Rist. The folks at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival are known for their incredibly popular, increasingly diverse summer music showcase [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:05pm EST
  

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• Wiercioch probable for DU, Team Canada

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  DU defenseman Patrick Wiercioch practiced today, after suffering what many thought could be a season-ending knee injury in Saturday’s 4-4 tie against CC. The standout sophomore is probable for Friday’s series-opening game at Minnesota-Duluth, and he has made arrangements to report to Team Canada’s final World Junior Championship camp on [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:46pm EST
  

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• RT Harris done for season

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  Right tackle Ryan Harris will not play again this season for the Broncos. Harris dislocated his big toe on his right foot Nov. 1 at Baltimore and re-injured it in the first quarter of Sunday’s game at Kansas City, his first game back in the lineup. Harris visited a sports medicine specialist [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  

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• President Obama Speaks on the Economy

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  Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
  Job Creation and Economic Growth
  Tuesday, December 8, 2009
  Brookings Institution
  Washington, DC

   

  Almost exactly one year ago, on a cold winter’s day, I met with my new economic team at the headquarters of my presidential transition offices in [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:20am EST
  

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• Iverson starts strong, can he finish that way?

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  Ask my good friend Kareem, a die-hard Allen Iverson fan, what I think about the superstar guard and he’ll say I’m an A.I. hater. I’ll say I’m just a realist. But no matter how it’s cut, there is no denying Iverson’s return to Philadelphia against the Nuggets on Monday night was a [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:36am EST
  

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• Grieving Change

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  Week 32! As people keep telling me, we’re nearly there. (Though time does seem to have stopped now.) I’ve spent the last seven months bucking myself up for this surprise baby and I’m excited! ... [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• Betancourt accepts Rockies’ arbitration offer

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  INDIANAPOLIS — The Rockies addressed their top priority by keeping one of their top relievers. Rafael Betancourt accepted the club’s arbitration offer tonight, a source directly involved with the talks told The Denver Post. Betancourt posted a 1.78 ERA with the Rockies and will return as their top setupman. [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:45pm EST
  

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• Guns on campus: More danger or more security? 3 letters

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  Re: “CSU may go gunless; Students criticize the board’s move to likely ban concealed weapons from campuses,” Dec. 5 news story. Your article on the potential gun ban for concealed-carry permittees at Colorado State University is illustrative of the lack of understanding by people in positions of authority. The anti-gun crowd has [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 4:41pm EST
  

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• Betancourt will go to deadline; Barajas, Green on radar

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  INDIANAPOLIS — Rafael Betancourt is no stranger to late-night pressure, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he’s taking his arbitration decision down to the wire. Agent Alan Nero told The Denver Post today that Betancourt’s decision will be “made just before the midnight (Eastern) deadline.’’ Multiple NL executives [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  

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• DU’s Scott knew Michelle Obama at Princeton

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  (Apparently there wasn’t enough room in the paper last week to run a piece I did on the connection between DU men’s basketball coach Joe Scott and Michelle Obama, so here it is:) During his playing days at Princeton in the 1980s, University of Denver men’s basketball coach Joe Scott couldn’t [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:15am EST
  

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• Barry Fey dreams a little food dream…

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  So legendary concert promoter Barry Fey calls one morning because he wants to get out of Dodge — or Denver — and eat some of his favorite foods, and he’s calling me because we share a history of ridiculously over-excessive dining. Of course, neither one of us can eat the [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:56am EST
  

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• How A Preschooler Solved the World’s Relationship Problems

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  My 3-year-old son Bode has the answer to every single person’s relationship drama. Whenever someone (OK, mostly his sister Hadley) ticks him off, like clockwork Bode chimes in: “I don’t wike dat.” Which, in Bode speak, loosely ... [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:00am EST
  

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• Betancourt weighing his options on Rockies’ arbitration offer

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  DENVER — Waiting for my flight to leave snowy DIA while talking to sources about Rafael Betancourt. He hasn’t decided yet whether to accept the Rockies’ arbitration, but he hasn’t ruled it out. That’s a good sign if you are a Rockies’ fan. Manager Jim Tracy remained hopeful this weekend [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:13pm EST
  

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• Obama and Afghanistan: 2 letters

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  Re: “Stage set for Afghan surge,” Dec. 2 Page 1 story. Perhaps it’s because he was never in the military. Perhaps it’s because I was. In either case, wouldn’t common sense tell you not to inform the enemy of your plans? Steve Fickler, Wheat Ridge This letter was published in the Dec. 7 [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  

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• A Tree for your Tree

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  Looking for some fun, inexpensive, easy and quick holiday crafts to do with the kids? One they’ll love and you’ll all remember for years to come? How about an ornament to adorn your ... [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• A 2004 Spurs win over Nuggets fixed? Donaghy says yes

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  SAN ANTONIO – Players and coaches have been instructed not to talk about it, so they could not comment on this, but former NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s book ‘Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal that Rocked the NBA’ has found a publisher and is out just in time [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:48pm EST
  

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• DU’s World Juniors

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  Last week DU defensemen Patrick Wiercioch (Canada) and Matt Donovan (USA) were named to the final tryout camps for their World Junior Championship squads, and Pios signee Jason Zucker, a forward who will be a freshman next fall, will attend the Grand Forks-based camp with Donovan. Zucker leads the U.S. [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  

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