Post News: Colorado cougars routinely traverse urban areas, study finds

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Today's Front Page News

Colorado cougars routinely traverse urban areas, study finds
AF69, a 90-pound female cougar, makes a healthy living on human habitat — stalking, eating and hiding deer around houses — usually when people aren't looking.  

• Rockies will retain Bob Apodaca, Carney Lansford and the rest of their coaching staff
• Current listeria outbreak could become second-worst for deaths
• Campaign-finance law argued before Colorado Supreme Court
• In Denver, Obama calls himself "warrior for the working class"
• Push for "21st century learning" has even the youngest students going high-tech

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Today's Local Politics

Campaign-finance law argued before Colorado Supreme Court
A state campaign-finance law that allows candidates who have a primary election to receive more money in donations than other candidates is unconstitutional and "totally skewed in favor of major-party candidates," an attorney told the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday.  

• At stop in Denver, Obama calls self "warrior for the working class"
• Colorado GOP leader says Obama pushing jobs plan because he's worried about his own job
• New audit of online schools gains traction at Colorado Capitol
• Congressmen ask U.S. to look into Gessler lawsuit against Denver clerk
• Report highlights issues at Colorado-run nursing homes for veterans

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Today's Business

Business community's reaction to Obama speech is mixed
For the American Jobs Act to have any chance of success, assuming it passes Congress, the private sector will have to do the bulk of the hiring.  

• Beetle-killed wood being used in home construction
• German chancellor wants a "strong Greece" in euro zone
• Denver home prices unchanged from June to July
• Colorado Concern looks to new boss Ward to raise its profile

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Today's Sports Headlines

Krieger: If Broncos don't have a "best chance to win," why not change the goal for 2011?
The question from a fan was innocent enough and certainly posed cheerfully enough by Susie Wargin on John Elway's TV show.  

• Rockies will retain Bob Apodaca, Carney Lansford and the rest of their coaching staff
• Rockies appear set to give closer's job to Rafael Betancourt, shop Huston Street
• MLB sets times for games 163
• Some good news — for 2012
• New Broncos Quan Cosby, Jonathan Wilhite helping despite short time with team

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Today's Entertainment

Book review: "Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman" by Patricia Bosworth
Have you seen Jane Fonda lately? At 73 she's still a leonine stunner, redefining notions of female beauty even as she embarks on her eighth decade. And, on the stump for her new book, "Prime Time," Fonda seems to have re-created herself yet again, this time as a self-help author on aging.  

• Book review: "The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve" by Peg Tyre (Henry Holt)
• You'll witness magic in "Rashomon"
• "The Liar" is a farce to be reckoned with

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Today's Style

Colorado cheese shops defy recession as public tastes grow more adventurous
You've heard all the bad news: The economy is in the tank, unemployment numbers are stubbornly high, no one's buying anything anymore. Except, it appears, cheese.  

• Pie-inspired apple dishes celebrate fall
• Dining Out: Wynkoop Brewing Co.
• Eat Local: Tacos Rapidos
• Happy birthday, Duffeyroll!
• March of Dimes benefit

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: Atlas maker's mistakes pour fuel on climate skeptics' fire
Greenland is a little bit closer to living up to its name, but not nearly as close as the new Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World would have had us believe.  

• Editorial: Campaigning for at least one job
• Testing out of history class
• Carroll: Why is trash a city task?
• Robinson: Looking for love
• Udall: Obama's plan to invest in the American people