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Original article can be found at the Alchemy of Abundance
Originally  published on March 5,2010
By RJ

In our fairy tale “spiritual world,” where fantasy reigns supreme, one program after another claims that by changing your thinking, or by consciously wishing for things, you can have them and be happy. There may actually be some truth to this idea, in very specific contexts, but it ignores the fact that most of us do not get what we wish for, and even when we do, it is not exactly as we imagined and things tend to take unexpected turns.

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Original article can be found at the Washingtonpost website.
Originally  published on February 28,2010
By Ken Ringle

Who doesn’t love the rainbow trout?

Whether sauced in butter, sketched in pastel or stripping line from a flyrod in a Montana stream, the game little fish with the freckled skin and the rosy side-stripes has always been a poster child for Unspoiled America. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover to Jimmy Carter have angled for it with something akin to reverence. Citizen conservationists and family campers have followed suit.

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Original article can be found at The Chronicle Review site
Originally published on February 28, 2010
By Peter Schmidt

Behold the regal rainbow trout, dappled denizen of deep lake and rushing river, fierce hunter of fish and fly—and prize of pork-barrel politics, invigorator of men, eradicator of native species, payload of numerous bombing missions.

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Original article can be found at newwest.net
Published on March 03, 2010
By Jenny Shank

Every week, publishers and authors send me books in the hope that I’ll review them for New West.  I read pretty fast, but I can’t get to all of the deserving books, so some of them end up in my Book Cabinet of Guilt.  My daughter keeps her crayons in the same cabinet, so every time she wants to color and opens the cabinet’s door, little wafts of guilt escape.

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Original article can be found at the colorado.edu news site
Originally published on February 10, 2010
By Staff

University of Colorado at Boulder history Professor Patty Limerick will bring history alive when she interviews nationally recognized actor Clay Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt in Boulder and Denver on Feb. 24 and 25.

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Original article can be found at http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_14348854#axzz0ftv8oGFE
Originally published on February 6, 2010
By Sarah Horn

More than a century ago, America’s government leaders wanted to encourage men to get back in touch with their primal abilities because they thought industrialization had diminished their masculinity, according to a new book written by a University of Colorado professor. (Read on …)

Original article can be found at denverpost.com
Originally  published on January 24 ,2010
By Michael Riley

Somewhere just after 12:30 p.m. on a cold Wednesday this month, the image of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as a Western pragmatist and wily political deal-maker evaporated in a cloud of heated rhetoric.

After months of doing battle with the oil and gas industry, the typically cautious Salazar lost his cool in a media call Jan. 6, blasting companies for acting like they were “kings of the world” and treating the country’s public lands as their own personal “candy store.”

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Original article can be found at http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_13398640
Originally published on September 22, 2009
By Scott Franz

Boulder’s 150-year anniversary continues as representatives of the city’s “kindred cities” meet at the University of Colorado on Wednesday night to discuss mutual challenges they share and how they plan to face them.
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Original article can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-lewis/four-officials-from-kindr_b_293599.html
Originally published on September 21, 2009
By Jerry Lewis

BOULDER — Four prominent leaders from Aspen, Colo., Madison, Wis., Portland, Ore. and Sante Fe, N.M. will share their experiences and thoughts in an evening forum, Wednesday, Sept. 23, titled “Separated at Birth: Insights from Kindred Communities.” (Read on …)

Original article can be found at http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_president_packs_harufs_plainsong_and_elmer_kelton_dies_at_83/C39/L39/
Originally published on August 26, 2009
By Jenny Shank

White House Press Secretary Bill Burton announced a list of five books that President Obama is bringing on his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard.  Among them is Kent Haruf‘s Plainsong.  Now, during last year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Jeff Lee of the Rocky Mountain Land Library asked a bunch of notable Western writers and…me to contribute a “reading list for the President-Elect: A Western States Primer for the Next Administration.” The Tattered Cover featured many of these suggestions in a display.  One of the books on my list was Plainsong.  (Rick Bass and Laura Pritchett also assigned Plainsong for presidential reading.) (Read on …)