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If it commanded an audience in Colorado, Dusty Saunders probably wrote about it. The longtime columnist and journalist died Sunday at age 90. He was with the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News for decades. He then freelanced at The Denver Post. Saunders was a founding member of the Television Critics Association. And in 2012, he spoke with Ryan Warner about his autobiography "Heeere's Dusty: Life in the TV & Newspaper World."