Post News: 3-year-old boy not seen for months found dead; mom held

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Today's Front Page News

3-year-old boy not seen for months found dead; mom held
Yolanda Kinzie-Graber spent the past year looking for her 3-year-old nephew — a search that came to a heartbreaking end when his remains were found wrapped in a blanket beneath a Sterling mobile home.  

• Colorado county commissioner requests ethics investigation of himself
• Solar thermal advocates say Colorado is perfect for taking the heat
• Federal judge in Denver rules fraud suspect must unlock her computer
• In State of Union address, Obama calls on top to help lift middle
• Murphy: Monster solar spitball stars in cosmic forecast

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Today's Local Politics

Colorado county commissioner requests ethics investigation of himself
For the first time, Colorado's ethics commission is investigating an elected official at the behest of the official himself.  

• Pinnacol Assurance, beset with criticism, suspends ads for privatization
• Colorado lawmakers' reactions to Obama speech predictable
• Two from Colorado sat in State of the Union audience
• Colorado power broker Paul Sandoval, dying of cancer, loses mother-in-law to the disease
• Tuskegee Airman saluted on Military Appreciation Day at Colorado Capitol

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Today's Business

Solar thermal advocates say Colorado is perfect for taking the heat
And now for a radical idea: Use the sun to heat water and air. OK, perhaps it isn't a radical idea, but it is an underused one in Colorado and one that a group of solar-energy businesses and and renewable-energy advocates want to boost.  

• Recent Colorado deaths a sad reminder that ski resorts not immune to avalanches
• Peabody to spend $200 million to expand Twentymile Mine in Colorado
• Quiznos completes refinancing
• Colorado unemployment rate falls to 7.9 percent
• Applicants for Colorado's tourism act tax incentives want to lift 2-projects-a-year limit

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Today's Sports Headlines

Minnesota Wild defeats Colorado Avalanche 3-2
The Wild beat the somewhat flat Avs 3-2 in a key Northwest Division game that leapfrogged Minnesota over Colorado for the eighth and final Western Conference playoff berth heading into this weekend's NHL all-star break.  

• Nuggets not resting on 12-5 record
• Dave Logan, Cherry Creek near a deal?
• Woody Paige: Raiders raid Broncos, hire Dennis Allen as head coach
• Raiders hire away Dennis Allen from Broncos for head coach job
• Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen hired as head coach of Raiders

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Today's Entertainment

Book review: "Lucking Out" a glossy, rousing memoir from Vanity Fair columnist James Wolcott
Compared with James Wolcott, most literary journalists write like Amish farmers, their sentences plain as bib overalls. Not so this longtime columnist for Vanity Fair. Wolcott's prose is high-maintenance, bangled with astonishing similes and metaphors, oiled to a high gloss.  

• Book review: "The Orphan Master's Son" a riveting read
• Video: Seal talks Heidi Klum split with Ellen DeGeneres

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Today's Style

A word about food: Stud
When you insert a flavor-enhancing ingredient into something bigger, you "stud" it.  

• Grazing: A feast of fudge pie, no crusting around
• Yum Yum: Girl Scout Cookies
• Banana Cream Pie: Circa 1973
• Make This: Curried Brown Rice Salad; Brown Rice Salad With Spinach and Tomatoes
• You Food: A mighty fine clambake; Happy birthday, Troy Donahue

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: Economic justice vs. class warfare
Yes, it was a campaign speech. But, in these days of the endless campaign, every State of the Union speech is a campaign speech.  

• Barnes-Gelt: Small-business loans are the seeds that grow a great city
• Carroll: Spending, but not learning
• Editorial: The right track on privacy
• Editorial: Doug Lamborn's state of disunion
• Schweizer: "Misdirection and outright deception" in Polis' response