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Author interview: Doris Kearns Goodwin on leadership, her new book, and her upcoming visit to Denver

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Although noted historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin has spent countless hours researching and writing about presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, she learned something new about each of the men as she wrote her newest book, “Leadership: In Turbulent Times” (Simon & Schuster). Doris Kearns Goodwin says someone
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PHOTOS: Pumpkin Nights sends you through 8 creative, colorful lands of 3,000 jack-o’-lanterns

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Your travels through Pumpkin Nights starts with a undertaking. Keep the eyes peeled for the pumpkin symbols as you make your way through eight pumpkin lands made of more than carved pumpkins. One is hidden in each property (they stand out with colours and sparkles) for you to photograph. Decode your symbols to the magician
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Host of outdoor fall events canceled across Front Range due to snow, though Broncos fans are undeterred

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Surfing a pumpkin patch or wandering through a corn maze are often lovely ways to spend an autumn Sunday. Except now. Inches of snow and temperatures in the 20s driven companies to cancel their fall actions that were projected. Around 7 inches of snow fell north of Denver first Sunday morning, while over two inches
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From Flobots to Nathaniel Rateliff and #WomenCrush, finding social justice through music

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Long prior to their platinum revenue, international excursions, or work for contemporary ballet company Wonderbound, the associates of Denver hip-hop act Flobots saw the possibility in baking activism and education right in their music. “It was always supposed to be symbiotic,” stated creator Jamie Laurie, a.k.a. Jonny 5, that had been inspired by the social-justice
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How college students can do Aspen on the cheap while still learning a thing or two

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After I was done using all the day&rsquo lesson, among my students taught me something. Lijin stayed I teach at Colorado State University to reveal photographs of her weekend at Aspen. “Look at the colors! ” she stated, pointing out an hillside of rsquo & town;s golden namesake climbing above orange brush and rusty red.
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Breckenridge residents want popular, wooden troll sculpture removed

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Breckenridge’s is however its lifespan might make cut short, as it seems the troll might soon fall victim. The buzz about media has been intense since the roughly troll, constructed of reclaimed wood, came up the Wellington Trail in Breckenridge for a summer arts festival. The pun ’s name is “Isak Heartstone,” given him by
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$1 coffee during the Colorado Avalanche hockey season and more Denver-area deals starting Oct. 12

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Coffee Targets To maintain the hockey year fueled, Colorado Avalanche fans can find a medium hot or iced coffee for $1 at Dunkin‘ every Thursday. It’so valid at participating locations in Denver through rsquo & the team ;s life. The voucher ends April 4, 2019. Limit one cup per day, per person. Note: This deal
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Taylor Swift wins big at AMAs and encourages fans to vote

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Taylor Swift kicked off with a rare political post on social media, and in the American Music Awards she continued the conversation by encouraging fans to vote at the upcoming midterm elections. Swift won four predecessors including artist of the year in the fan-voted series on Tuesday at Los Angeles, beating Drake, Ed Sheeran, Imagine
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6-mile hike leads to the largest concentration of natural arches this side of Utah

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FRUITA — In Edward Abbey’s classic, “Desert Solitaire,” the seasonal ranger whined about the street building and modernization happening in Utah’s Arches National Park. “You can’t even see anything in a car,” he railed. “You’ve got to escape this (goshdarn) contraption and wander — better yet, creep — in your hands and knees, over the
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Phil’s Place prepares for Sunday sendoff as wave of change continues to wash over Denver’s Five Points

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Gary Garcia has seen his share of shift and then some from the decades his family has owned and managed restaurant and a pub in the corner of 35th and Larimer streets, in the northern edge of Five Points.  Garcia’s parents purchased the institution at now called Phil’so Place at 3463 Larimer St. from the
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