A healthy monsoon season restoring flows on the Animas River to normal levels after flirting with record lows earlier this summer

 		  
 
Light at the end of the New Mexico TV market tunnel, bringing hope for no more Albuquerque news, Heather Wilson political ads and blacked-out Bronco games
 		  
 
Local firefighters quickly getting the upper hand on a fire at Ken and Sue’s last week, minimizing damages to nearby businesses as well as down time for the popular eatery  
Yet another natural disaster hitting the beleaguered Colorado Springs area with last week’s devastating flash flood in Manitou Springs
 
 
 

The impending return of the West’s toxic past, with the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium mill inching ever closer to a reality in the Paradox Valley
 

  
 
   
A scary return to Cold War era and Stalinist policies with Russia’s renewed persecution of gays, including incarceration for even talking about homosexuality