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To be enough just to put up a little window dressing in front. Now they had to take what the local newspaper called a tourists eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. So in short, already with this very first stretch of i70 to be built up in the high country we can already see a hint of how largescale postwar Tourist Development was ...

The Pioneer Center recently honored 11 community leaders and advocates at its annual awards banquet.

The world was a different place twenty years ago and it was still possible that a more or less unknown indie rock band from the Pacific Northwest could

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The Shins' James Mercer, 51, reflects on his 2001 debut album: 'I get the chills'

This week, Billboard is publishing a series of lists and articles celebrating the music of 20 years ago. Our 2001 Week continues with an interview with Shins singer/songwriter James Mercer, as he looks back on the song that took him from a struggling Southwestern musician with an uncertain future to frontman for one of the biggest indie bands of the 21st century: "New Slang."  In the late-90s, James Mercer was a twenty-something guitarist/vocalist, building tracks on a computer in a New Mexi...