Steamboat Briefs: Local Boy Scouts looking for used cowboy boots (The Steamboat Pilot & Today)
A local Boy Scouts troop is seeking used cowboy boots for upcoming events. If you have some old boots you d like to donate, call John Mertz at 870-8993.

When drug plans don't communicate, insured can be left in the lurch (Miami Herald)
Q. My mother, 89 and a Medicare recipient, applied in December to change her insurance provider to AARP, and elected to receive her Medicare Part D prescription drugs through AdvantraRx. The new plans were to take effect on Jan. 1, 2009.

Dodd taking lead role on health care reform (New Haven Register)
U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., said Monday that putting a public option on the table as part of federal health care reform is important to the debate and should not be rejected as a nonstarter.