This tale about Ski magazine, and the Summit Daily News, and how reporters have run afoul of The Big Scary Ski Industry, and how their publishers have tossed them under the snowdrift (hmm, eh, sorry), is really amazing. Including, one editor at Ski wrote an unhappy note to the staff, while agreeing to remove a published story, that said: "My understanding is that we're not in a position to stand up for free speech at the expense of dough right now...."

A bear cub broke into a car in a Denver suburb but became trapped when the door shut behind it. One of the responding officers ("The bear," notes the report, "was as surprised to see the deputies as the deputies were to see the bear") opened the door and the bear bolted off... probably to plan his next heist. It's revolving-door justice out there in Colorado.

A Vail woman fought off a bear by throwing a decorative pillow at it. The story does not end on a happy note for the bear.

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