Author: CAROL MCKINLEY carol.mckinley@gazette.com
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Colorado Springs Green Beret suicide underscores need for brain injury awareness
In a digital journal investigators found in one of two charred cellphones, Matthew Livelsberger indicated that his war experience had left him severely troubled: “These graphic encounters replay in my head all day every day and it has ruined my relationships with my family and friends. I am now a shell of a human being…
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Colorado ski slopes were ancestral homelands to indigenous peoples
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It took a century, but Colorado mountain resorts are finally recognizing that Indigenous tribes inhabited the Rockies long before the tourism industry introduced chair lifts, snowmaking machines and mountain bike trails. Winter Park Ski Resort…
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Blue corn meal, whiskey help save Ute Mountain Ute Farm and Ranch during drought
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save TOWAOC — Drought in much of the West, 22 years running, has struck Colorado’s Four Corners tribal lands with bitter force. This year, the Ute Mountain Ute’s celebrated 7,700 acre farm and ranch operation had to…
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After narrow escape from Afghanistan, interpreter, family embark on journey to new home in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The interpreter slogged through human sewage up to his knees, two trips back and forth through steaming sludge, each time carrying two of his children on his shoulders. At the walled gate separating fear from freedom, he heaved them into the arms of his anxious…
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‘There is no way to live like a human here:’ Young woman scholar desperate to flee Taliban
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the Taliban moved into western Afghanistan to take over Herat Province, Fahemeh Amini grew increasingly frightened. For two weeks, the Afghan Army fought to keep the rebels out, but on August 12th the city fell. That day, Amini left work at Herat University as armed…