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Classic cars and young drivers get a lesson in manual transmissions

GOLDEN — How do you teach teenagers to drive a stick shift? Take them to a secluded 1.4 mile training track in Golden on an idle Saturday where no one else is around. Teach them about the clutch, gears and emergency brake. And then hand over the keys. And for kicks, convince a handful of vintage car owners to loan

Classic cars and young drivers get a lesson in manual transmissions

GOLDEN — How do you teach teenagers to drive a stick shift? Take them to a secluded 1.4 mile training track in Golden on an idle Saturday where no one else is around. Teach them about the clutch, gears and emergency brake. And then hand over the keys. And for kicks, convince a handful of vintage car owners to loan

Bennet, Western senators ask Sec. Zinke to reverse suspension of BLM resource council meetings

Sen. Michael Bennet on Thursday joined a group of Western senators in asking the Department of Interior to lift its sudden suspension of advisory committees and local boards that deliver public input on the Bureau of Land Management’s policy decisions. “These meetings are an invaluable way to ensure rural and local voices in Colorado are heard and considered in conversations

Bennet, Western senators ask Sec. Zinke to reverse suspension of BLM resource council meetings

Sen. Michael Bennet on Thursday joined a group of Western senators in asking the Department of Interior to lift its sudden suspension of advisory committees and local boards that deliver public input on the Bureau of Land Management’s policy decisions. “These meetings are an invaluable way to ensure rural and local voices in Colorado are heard and considered in conversations

Google tools generated $2.9B in economic activity in Colorado last year, tech giant says

Cliff Grassmick, Daily CameraWork continues on Google’s 330,000-square-foot Boulder campus, as seen on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Some 40,000 Colorado businesses and nonprofits that use Google’s online advertising tools helped generate economic activity worth $2.88 billion in 2016, according to the tech giant’s latest economic impact report released Wednesday. Colorado’s Google activity dwarfs that of most its neighbors, with New

Swansong for Misbah

The meticulous master of the misfit madmen will marshal them only once more. Misbahul Haq will be calling it quits after the upcoming series with the West Indies. The oldest player on the team, yet the most physically fit, becoming a permanent fixture in the national side at the age of 33 when most cricketers retire, the captain of the

Pentagon presenting Syria military options to White House

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is presenting a range of possible military options the United States could take in response to the suspected chemical attack in Syria, a US official said on Thursday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said options include strikes to ground the Syrian air force. Syria chemical attack Pentagon chief Jim Mattis is presenting the options to

7 Ways Emotional Intelligence Can Help Us Cope With Stress and Prevent Burnout

According to the American Institute for Stress, “Numerous studies show that job stress is far and away the major source of stress for American adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past few decades.” According to their statistics 80% of workers feel stress on the job and 40% of those reported that their jobs were very or extremely

Lead With Gratitude

I keep coming back to this word, “gratitude.” Everyone talks about work/life balance as the term to live by. What exactly does work/life balance look like? Most people I talk to say they have a right work/life balance. When was the last time you heard someone say, “My work/life balance is off” or My work/life balance is not right.” Once

How to Be On Time, Every Time

I have this friend, we’ll call her “Late Kate” (See what I did there?). Kate is beautiful, fun and thoughtful. I love being around her. She also has a reputation for always being late. Kate is always late to dinners and get togethers. Her sons are regularly late for school. As they say, Kate probably will be late for her

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