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According to the folks at Nielsen, Joe Biden’s big speech Wednesday night – his first, if unofficial, State of the Union – was a ratings flop. But if those who skipped the speech had known what...
DATE: May 4, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The United States is in a muddle over how to tell our history, stuck between an aggressive revisionism that would leave few commemorative statues standing, and a stubborn clinging to all the...
DATE: May 2, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I’m a vegan, but I’m also a realist. There’s no chance humanity is going to give up meat, en masse, anytime soon. That said, we can’t just wish away the risks of industrial animal agriculture. If...
DATE: May 2, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
“The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety.” Most people who don’t work in the...
DATE: May 1, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial is a relief, but not a victory. A victory is when we no longer need a witness to record the murder of a Black man in order to recieve some sense of...
DATE: May 1, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
My grandfather was a mover and shaker in the Colorado sugar-beet industry with Great Western Sugar, and he was also a professor of agriculture at Colorado State University. But the agricultural...
DATE: April 30, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Give credit to Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg and others in the state legislature who, in the wake of the Boulder King Soopers shooting, are trying to actually do something about gun...
DATE: April 29, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe economic...
DATE: April 29, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Walking down Main Street of any small town in the Rocky Mountain West, you’ll find the quaint storefronts, cafés and watering holes you expect. Uber and Lyft are hard to come by. DoorDash is...
DATE: April 28, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Are we still wasting time and energy on the Toh-Atin Chief? Really? Perhaps those who are so supportive of its removal would like to interview Native Americans in Newcomb, New Mexico, on the Navajo...
DATE: April 28, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Jack Turner’s recent column equating Georgia’s new Jim Crow voting law to the challenges faced by unaffiliated candidates seeking office in Colorado is unfortunate. The Georgia law is a...
DATE: April 28, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé and found the family trembling and weeping. They pointed to the ceiling, where an axe was...
DATE: April 27, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
