Steve Lipsher

Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado's 5th congressional district at the El Paso County GOP Women's picnic in Colorado Springs on June 12, 2012.

Lipsher: Veteran lawmaker Doug Lamborn fails first test of democracy

April 27, 2018 at 12:19 p.m.

That Lamborn embarrassingly would struggle to meet even the rather minimal signature threshold in any account speaks volumes of the lackluster impression he has left during his unremarkable tenure.

Lipsher: When a race is only like a race, who loses?

April 2, 2018 at 5:25 p.m.

The rise of underground races on public lands -- with invitations spread through word of mouth and social media -- has posed a vexing concern for land managers and for...

A woman rides an e-bike on a paved trail near Boulder.

Lipsher: E-bikes put the 鈥渆asy鈥� in riding but conflict where the rubber meets the road

March 2, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Given that e-bikes are motorized, I would like to see them confined to routes that allow motorcycles and ATVs, not the single-track trails popular among hikers, horseback riders and mountain...

Staying fit takes more than exercise -- it takes another kind of effort to make the right diet choices.

Lipsher: Dieting takes Olympian effort, minus the Russian cheating

January 26, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

For those who have struggled with being overweight, I have a newfound appreciation for the difficulties of staying on target, especially in our prepackaged, convenient, always-at-hand food culture.

There are 14,000 McDonald's restaurants in the United States.

Lipsher: A new McDonald’s in Silverthorne? I’ll pass

December 29, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.

Perhaps it抖阴ap a sign of our best-in-the-nation healthiness in Summit County, but I recently asked a friend: 鈥淒id you know that the McDonald鈥檚 here is closed?鈥� The answer: 鈥淚 didn鈥檛...

A pedestrian crosses Main Street in Breckenridge last spring. With the arrival of ski season, the annual scramble for housing in Breckenridge and other resort areas is ramping up.

Lipsher: Wanted: A few square feet and a place for a pair of skis

November 24, 2017 at 1:52 p.m.

As ski season ramps up, the annual scramble for housing in the resort areas seems to have reached all-time desperation, judging by the pleas for space, no matter how Spartan...

Lipsher: Our fingers no longer do the walking, so why all the phone books?

October 30, 2017 at 12:07 p.m.

We are stuck with these relics because, somehow, the publishers convince a dwindling but sufficient number of businesses that they still need to advertise in the Yellow Pages.

Valerie McCarthy flashes a peace sign at drivers on Colorado 9 in Summit County.

Lipsher: May peace be with you, drivers on Highway 9

October 2, 2017 at 10:05 a.m.

Road-construction traffic jams may be among Colorado鈥檚 greatest aggravations. But on Colorado 9 in Summit County, flagger Valerie McCarthy is doing her best to change that.

A spectator holds his eclipse glasses prior to the solar eclipse on Monday in Garden City, N.Y.

Lipsher: Planet Amazon blots out all local light

August 25, 2017 at 5:06 p.m.

My inability to find eclipse glasses where I live is part of a pattern that I鈥檓 recognizing more and more as I start my efforts to locate a product locally,...

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Lipsher: Peak widsom: In mountaineering, the goal shouldn’t always be the summit

August 7, 2017 at 12:59 p.m.

Colorado's fourteeners have been deadly as usual this year, and more peak-baggers should keep in mind that risking death really is a thing on these so-called Everyman's Everests.

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