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Dave Shively: A learning curve
When you smack your face on a rock, the last person you want to blame is yourself.
Jail Report for April 22
Saturday, April 14 Skyler James Vanhorne, 21, Steamboat Springs-Possessing an illegal weapon (Steamboat Springs Police Department)
Independent bookseller wants to build your custom library
For Erica Fogue, picking up a book is more than a passionate pastime.
Best of the Web for April 22
So is rent control worse than the promise of restricted ownership? To me they are just the same failure bound to happen, the only difference is who profits from the policy. Since the free market works so well who can name the resort town that depends on free market forces to provide for their labor force? If there isn't one does that mean that free market is also a failure waiting to happen?
Richard Watts: Club 20's scheme
The April 14 Daily Press article "Club 20 committee proposes health care reform" speaks of Club 20's "plan to reform the state's health care system." But medicine in Colorado is not a state "health care system." The intention of the Club 20 plan, and of the newly formed 208 Health Care Commission, is not to reform an alleged "system," but to create one. The system they are striving to create in Colorado is socialized medicine - disguised in euphemisms such as "Mandatory," "Single-payer," "State-sponsored," "Universal," "Expanded coverage" and "Comprehensive." But "expansion of health care coverage" is not expansion of medical services. Socialized medicine causes rationing of medical services - foreshadowed by the proposed "reasonable and necessary limitations." Socialized medicine has proved disastrous elsewhere - Tennessee's (TennCare) and Canada's systems are infamous examples.
Michael Craig: Comical Council
Tuesday night was a first for me. It was the first time I've truly been afraid while living in Steamboat.
Austin Ritzel: Stop the nonsense
Let's face the music. The Steamboat Pilot & Today has never been the most reliable newspaper and often has less than stellar news.
Rick Akin: What is a conservative?
Confusion and misunderstanding abound concerning the definitions of "Liberal" and "Conservative." The labels typically are applied after hearing a person's position on a single issue. This has led to these labels becoming almost meaningless in popular usage.
Our View: Housing policy needs work
The Steamboat Springs City Council was right to delay action on its revised inclusionary zoning ordinance.
Tigers eye pre-qualifying tourneys
Hayden High School track and field coach Kevin Kleckler was going to use Saturday's Eagle Valley Invitational to gauge where his team fits in the Class 2A scheme of things.
Soroco track on the attack
Girls team nabs second, boys earn fourth at Eagle Valley invite
Whether it's an Oklahoma secret or not, Soroco track and field coach David Bruner has found something with his team.
Steamboat girls lacrosse improves game for final match
Steamboat Springs girls lacrosse coach Jenn Kirkpatrick had said Saturday's matchup against Green Mountain - the Sailors' final game of the season - would be, "ours to win," based on the team's progress Friday against a fast Denver East squad.
John Russell: Awards part of the tradition
Last week, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association announced something that most of us in Steamboat Springs already knew.
Depleted Steamboat track team moves at Rifle
Spring break comes at an awkward time for the Steamboat Springs track team.
An inning that wouldn't end
Steamboat Springs baseball team drops a pair of games against Eagle Valley
The Steamboat Springs baseball seemingly had the game in hand.
Education briefs for April 22
8th grade (all A's) - Caitlyn Berry, Charell Ondrejka, Ariel Rollett, Ceanna Rossi, Michael Rossi, Alexandra Smith
Meeting between educators tries to ease transition between preschool, kindergarten
Teacher Georgia Reust broke out in a song Tuesday about being a "cool kid" going to school.
Leaving a legacy
First female city official retires to spend more time with family
In November 1973, the town of Steamboat Springs adopted a home rule charter and became a city, James Golden ended his term as the town's last mayor, candidates ran for the first City Council, and Edna Drennan became Steamboat's first female city official.
Elementary schools bring stacking fever to Steamboat
In the split-second, touch-and-go world of competitive sport stacking, what goes up must come down.
Routt County Spotlight: Douglas Matthew Mouton
Occupation: General manager of Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant and drummer for The Plagiarists
Jimmy Westlake: The diamond of spring
Each season of the year brings its own unique asterism into our early evening sky, and each one is a geometrical pattern made up of bright stars from different constellations. Summer has its "Summer Triangle," autumn has the "Great Square of Pegasus," winter has the magnificent "Winter Circle" and spring offers us the "Spring Diamond."
Paddling posse makes return trip to Routt County's Slater Creek
The bullet holes that riddle the lone "Moffat County 1" sign are about the only indicator the dirt road on the windswept plateau has been traveled recently. There's little non-antelope traffic that comes off the northwest end of the Elkhead Mountains near the Wyoming border.
Oak Creek tattoo artist creating memories with body art
Like everyone else who snuck out of the house and headed for the tattoo parlor at the tender age of 13, Lawrence Jaconetta's parents told him he'd have to live with his decision for the rest of his life.
Officials work on tri-district emergency-response plan
Monday's Virginia Tech shooting shocked the nation as people turned on their televisions to images of students fleeing the Blacksburg, Va., campus and law enforcement officers carrying students out of a building after Seung-Hui Cho took the lives of 32 of his fellow students and teachers and then his own.
The Record for April 20
Friday, April 20 12:49 a.m. A drunken woman was taken to detox from the 200 block of Hill Street.
Schools aim to increase busing, carpooling
Danielle Skov said she and her children are lucky. They live close to the Strawberry Park campus, so walking to school is easy.
Real estate transactions for April 12-17
Real estate transactions for April 12-17
March transactions roar like a lion
Unprecedented $141 million total is a record for all months
The dollar volume of real estate closings in Routt County during March surged to unprecedented levels, eclipsing $141.79 million.
Vanatta aims high, reaches elite status
Realtor ranked 29th on Prudential list
Pam Vanatta, co-owner of Prudential Steamboat Realty, was focused on cracking Prudential's list of the top 100 producing Realtors in the nation. But she surpassed her own expectations.
Mud season provides businesses with much needed downtime
Tracy Barnett remembers when mud season meant that if you wanted to eat lunch during the workday, you better pack it or allow time to go home.
Business File for April 22
SmartWool restructures marketing roles
