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Mental Health within Larimer’s Criminal Justice System

Last month I wrote about programs in place to help prevent those with mental illness from committing crimes. However, sometimes people who have a mental illness do commit crimes and find themselves in the system. Luckily, there are alternatives to traditional methods of probation or incarceration. These methods are aimed at rehabilitation and helping a …

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Self-Healing Concrete

Bob Larson writes Technology is Hip coluumn via 50 Plus Marketplace News for northern Colorado seniors

Concrete has been used for several millennium since the Romans built the famous Coliseum. It’s considered the most popular building material in the world. However many of the world’s bridges and highways are literally falling apart. A typical bridge lasts 50 years. Today the average age of U.S. bridges is 42 years. One-quarter of all …

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