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  • Why Greens need blue blazers

    Greenies, until America becomes less pretentious, your party needs to trade in tie-dye for the uniform of power: gray flannel trousers and a nice, pink-pinstriped shirt

    by Lou Bendrick, Apr 12, 2004

  • Why Greens need blue blazers

    Lou Bendrick advises wanna-be Western politicians to pick preppy green and pink

    by Lou Bendrick, May 05, 2003

  • What's in a name? Just ask Dwayne or Trucklene

    An encounter in a bar with a guy named Dwayne causes a writer named Mary Lou to ponder the hidden meanings lurking behind first names in the West.

    by Lou Bendrick, Oct 14, 2002

  • I am an Inuit warrior

    It's not easy being a person who lives in a high mountain ski town but hates snow and winter weather.

    by Lou Bendrick, Feb 12, 2001

  • Native American wannabes: Beware the Weasel Spirit

    A Telluride, Colo., woman, irked by the way some New Age whites cannibalize Indian spirituality, has taken on the name of "White Dork" and the totem animal weasel.

    by Lou Bendrick, Aug 14, 2000

  • Horses shy from competition

    Horses and riders are being crowded off Western trails by mountain bikers and ORVers, and some have formed the Back Country Horsemen group to fight back.

    by Lou Bendrick, Aug 30, 1999

  • Happy campers we shall always be

    Although boring food, banged-up bodies and origami maps make camping a lot harder than it looks in the Dodge Dakota commercials, something like a middle-of-the-night look at the Milky Way makes all the trouble worthwhile.

    by Lou Bendrick, Jun 21, 1999

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