Each year, you receive the same e-mail alerting you that the open enrollment period for your health benefits has arrived. And every year, the e-mail goes from the inbox to the deleted box before you can say “deductible.” But this year, it might pay to actually read that email before you hit delete.

For 131 years Colorado has seen both boom and bust. The explosive population and economic growth of Denver and the Front Range, in contrast to the depopulation and chronic economic decline of Colorado’s farm and ranch communities is but the current iteration of an old theme.

So, it appears the honeymoon is over for Governor Ritter, the business community, and even some of his strongest backers in the media.

What a strange sight: demonstrators in dark suits and ties being clubbed by police.

I’m a 45-year-old woman disabled from multiple sclerosis.

For many years I have heard, and participated in the discussions on abortion. I have some questions that never seem to get answered.

It must be 20 years since I last came to Russia — back then, it was the drab and repressive Soviet Union. So on a trip this week to shoot a documentary for HDNet, I’ve been watching for what’s new and what’s not.

On Monday, I will spend a quiet day with my daughter-in-law and granddaughters, Lillie and Barbara. I have cleared my schedule because I want to pause for a day to honor and remember our veterans. On this Veterans’ Day, my wife and I will think about our son, a father and husband, in his fifth month serving in Afghanistan in the U.S. Army.

A man from Castle Rock agreed today in the RMN ‘letters section’ on the ‘hoax’ of global warming as perpetrated by former Vice President Al Gore.

As a former member of the Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton administrations, I know firsthand how divisive political debate can be. In Washington, D.C., and in state capitols across the nation, few issues are able to transcend the political divide.

What a difference seven years makes.

On Saturday the City of Denver will once again celebrate Veterans Day with a parade downtown. The public should be aware, however, that not all veterans will be represented in this parade. The organizing committee has selectively excluded Veterans For Peace and other vetsí organizations that would express a message to our leaders, urging them to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their choice is more than a little ironic.

Xcel Energy’s postponement of an advanced clean-coal power plant that captures and buries its greenhouse gas emissions comes at a time when U.S. demand for electricity will increase 17.7 percent in the next decade while supply is expected to grow only 8.4 percent.

Fifty years ago, the south bank of Cherry Creek just west of Parker Road was part of the Flowing J Ranch.

On Friday, I issued an executive order that authorizes state government managers and workers to enter into employee partnerships. Since then, some opponents have incorrectly characterized what this order does and does not do. Some of the criticism borders on hysteria. Here are the facts: