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Denver Post sports writer Corey Masisak opens up the Avs Mailbag periodically throughout the season. Pose an Avalanche- or NHL-related question for the Avs Mailbag. I’m aware no one knows at this point, but I’m interested in your best guess: How many games do you think Landy will play next season, and how many points will he produce? — thriller1, via Reddit That has to be one of the biggest questions for the Avalanche when training camp begins: How much will captain Gabe Landeskog play after his dramatic comeback during the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs? Here’s what Avs general manager Chris MacFarland…

Dear Eric: I’m on a condo board with a couple of men who seem very controlling and regularly impugn my honesty. This is extremely uncomfortable. I’m not sure how to respond. For example, we had a meeting and one of them said we never have discussed these topics at this kind of meeting. I’m the secretary. I said look at last year’s special meeting after the annual election. You will see that we had some old business, new business and an executive session after the election of officers. Instead of saying, I’m sorry I guess I was just mistaken, he…

Too fragile to understand our history? Re: “Signs posted seen as threats to ‘whitewash’ dark side of history,” June 28 news story The term “snowflake” is often used to insult political liberals. With the power invested in me as a U.S. citizen, I nominate President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Bergum our Snowflakes in Chief. Are these men so fragile and fearful that they need to waste and abuse our time and space by defacing signs in our National Parks and Monuments because these two men can’t cope with the truth? Bergum says signage should highlight the beauty of…

DENVER — Roger Hutson was never a huge fan of Donald Trump. In 2016, he supported Marco Rubio for president, helping raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his Republican primary bid. In 2024, Hutson worked with “No Labels,” a group of Democrats, Republicans and independents, to forge a bipartisan ticket with the express purpose of keeping either Trump or Joe Biden from winning the White House. Is this “really the best we can do in a country of 330 million people?” Hutson asked in a Denver Post opinion piece after the effort collapsed and another Trump-Biden matchup seemed inevitable.…

Repairs on the road to the 14,266-foot summit of Mount Blue Sky are proceeding on schedule, according to the company that is doing the work, and North America’s highest paved highway is expected to reopen next spring on or around Memorial Day, its traditional seasonal reopening. Repair work began last fall after the road’s traditional Labor Day closure on a 0.7-mile section at 13,000 feet near Summit Lake. Crews were able to work into early November before the project had to be halted for winter. They removed old asphalt, improved the soil layer beneath the asphalt, moved and replaced culverts,…

By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earths mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple on Tuesday to produce more of the powerful magnets used in iPhones as well as other high-tech products like electric vehicles. This news comes on the heels of last week’s announcement that the U.S. Defense Department agreed to invest $400 million in shares of the Las Vegas-based company, establish a floor for the price of key elements and ensure that all of the magnets made at a new plant in the first 10 years are…

ATLANTA — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and players’ union head Tony Clark say plans are moving ahead exploring the possibility of using major leaguers in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, a tournament that could be played on an extended All-Star break. “I think it is a opportunity to market the game on a really global stage,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday. “Obviously the clubs are going to have to endorse this. I mean, it’s a big deal.” MLB met with Los Angeles organizers Monday in Atlanta ahead of the All-Star Game and Manfred said the…

A new brush fire sparked Tuesday in Douglas County between Chatfield State Park and Daniels Park, according to South Metro Fire Rescue. South Metro crews responded to the fire at 6005 Ron King Trail at 2:17 p.m. Tuesday, according to the agency. Douglas County officials held a news conference on Ron King Trail Monday for a series of mostly contained weekend fires that sparked along the train tracks in that same area, running down Colorado 85 from Highlands Ranch Parkway to the town of Louviers. The causes of both Tuesday’s fire and the weekend fires remain under investigation, but Douglas…

A former Denver restaurateur was arrested and indicted last week on charges of fraud, with federal prosecutors accusing him of receiving more than $1 million in pandemic relief loans under false pretenses and for his personal benefit. Jared Leonard, whose restaurant group included the Michelin-recommended AJ’s Pit Bar-B-Q, made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court of Colorado in Denver last week. On Monday, a magistrate judge ordered Leonard be transferred to the northern district of Illinois in Chicago, where he lived previously, and where charges were initially filed last month. He remains in federal custody, according to court…

ATLANTA — Seattle’s Cal Raleigh won his first All-Star Home Run Derby after leading the big leagues in long balls going into the break, defeating Tampa Bay’s Junior Caminero 18-15 in the final round Monday night. The Mariners’ breakout slugger nicknamed Big Dumper advanced from the first round on a tiebreaker by less than an inch over the Athletics’ Brent Rooker, then won his semifinal 19-13 over Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz, whose 513-foot first-round drive over Truist Park’s right-center field seats was the longest of the night. Hitting second in the final round, the 22-year-old Caminero closed within three dingers, took…