Dan Larson

Community

How to Negotiate a 
Four-Way Stop

When you pull to a stop at a busy four-way stop intersection, what should you do? The correct answer is D. And for the sake of all that is good and proper and safe, we can only hope that more motorists take notice. It really isn’t that difficult, but it does require some concentration, and

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Opinion

City of Wheat Ridge Civil Defense Sirens Reach Finish Line

As the City of Wheat Ridge moves to decommission its network of fifteen Emergency Notification sirens, I would like to provide a bit of context. Generally referred to as Civil Defense Sirens, for those of us who grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s, the wail of these sirens was a weekly reminder that dangerous

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Community

A Disruptive Power Outage and How to Be a Good Neighbor

Utility services are expected to be reliable. Electricity, natural gas, the internet, even land-line telephone service; we expect it is always there. Flip the switch, the light comes on. When the temperature dips, the furnace warms our home. Open our laptops, and wi-fi connects us to the world. We just take it for granted, and

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