by Mr. Leadville | Aug 25, 2021 | Leadville News
One thing U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett can’t be accused of as he gears up for another reelection bid after 12 years in that office, and that’s leadership. Bennet spent most of his career blindly following inept leaders, like President Obama and the 2009 troop surge in...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 25, 2021 | Leadville News
FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) — As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state’s most profitable...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 25, 2021 | Leadville News
Before she went to jail and before she overdosed, Brittany Medlin dabbled in getting clean.She’d make it three days, maybe five. She and her sister, also then struggling with addiction, had been subjects of an “Intervention”-style TV show. The...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 25, 2021 | Leadville News
FORT GARLAND • Driving U.S. 160 through the dusty outposts of the San Luis Valley, everybody passes the building.The adobe building on the corner. The walls with colorful murals celebrating the region’s Spanish and Catholic influences. The bright yellow sign with red...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 25, 2021 | Leadville News
The best of the season’s cantaloupes, honeydews, dove melons, yellow flesh watermelons and watermelons (regular, seedless and personal size) hail from Rocky Ford, a small town in southeastern Colorado that becomes the talk of all towns this time of year.What’s so...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 25, 2021 | Leadville News
The need for programs to help Colorado Springs residents beat addiction to substances is as great as the gap is wide, say those working in recovery, but they see hope on the horizon.One huge hole: There’s no inpatient facility in the city for rehabilitative treatment...
