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Alyssa Chutka

Reporter · US

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Aug 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Alyssa Chutka

    How Colorado’s Prison-Trained K9 Program Gives Dogs—and Inmates—a Second Chance (opens the original)

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    The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Chances are that if you saw five-year-old Robert Ray walking around his neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side back in 1990, he wasn’t alone. Most days, at least five or six dogs trailed behind him, lured to his side by the black-eyed peas and string beans he snuck from the dinner table when his mom wasn’t looking. But Ray’s early years were far from idyllic. He was still in kindergarten when he came across

  2. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Alyssa Chutka

    Molino Chido Is Doing Tacos Differently—and We Are Very Into It (opens the original)

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    The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. At nine-month-old Molino Chido, tacos are an art form, and the canvas is masa de maíz, which you can see being made through the window into the front room of the kitchen. There, two talented women, Dani Ramírez and Diana Rentería, grind soaked corn kernels in an electric molino (or mill) and then roll the resulting dough into stacks of plush, chewy tortillas. Still, the six tacos are listed last on the men

  3. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Alyssa Chutka

    Peter Heller on Watching Ridley Scott Bring The Dog Stars to Life (opens the original)

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    The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. With its postapocalyptic stakes and vast Colorado setting, Peter Heller’s bestselling 2012 novel The Dog Stars felt destined for the big screen. Nevertheless, it’s taken more than a decade for a film adaptation to reach theaters. To Heller, who lives in Denver, it was worth the wait. The $110 million movie, which will be released on August 28, is helmed by legendary director Ridley Scott and features a con

  4. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Alyssa Chutka

    17 Fun Things To Do With Your Dog in Colorado (opens the original)

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    The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. They say your perspective on life changes forever when you have children. I don’t have any human babies of my own, so I can’t verify that claim. But I know my world certainly shifted in November when Benny, an almost-three-year-old Aussiedoodle, hopped into the back seat of my car for the first time—and immediately peed everywhere. Since then, I’ve become a quintessential Colorado dog owner. Benny’s haircu

  5. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Alyssa Chutka

    What the States Squabbling Over the Colorado River Can Learn From the San Luis Valley (opens the original)

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    The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Windows on cabins near Platoro Reservoir are boarded shut against the threat of snow, which typically piles up against their northern walls well into summer at 10,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains. But on a recent May morning, as Nathan Coombs hefts a metal pan about four feet in diameter onto a stand, the shutters face only dry, brown grass. The manager of the Conejos Water Conservancy District, which de

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