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Lipsher: Veteran lawmaker Doug Lamborn fails first test of democracy
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?
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...
Lipsher: E-bikes put the 鈥渆asy鈥� in riding but conflict where the rubber meets the road
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...
Lipsher: Dieting takes Olympian effort, minus the Russian cheating
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.
Lipsher: A new McDonald’s in Silverthorne? I’ll pass
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...
Lipsher: Wanted: A few square feet and a place for a pair of skis
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?
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.
Lipsher: May peace be with you, drivers on Highway 9
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.
Lipsher: Planet Amazon blots out all local light
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,...
Lipsher: Peak widsom: In mountaineering, the goal shouldn’t always be the summit
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.