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Renewable energy is on everyone’s mind these months, what with fossil fuels contributing to continuously higher temperatures around the globe. Disappearing glaciers, reduced crop yields, a shortage...
DATE: Aug. 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
On Sunday, in western Iceland, a funeral was held on a barren side of volcanic Ok mountain. Once it had been covered by the Okjökull glacier. The glacier’s birth date was not immediately available...
DATE: Aug. 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley suddenly died, and now, in retrospect, the way Americans and the world absorbed that news says something about us that just may be enduring. By 1977, Elvis as...
DATE: Aug. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Today, we salute former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. On Thursday, he exited the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination with the same aplomb we have come to expect from Hick at his...
DATE: Aug. 16, 2019 | UPDATED: 6 days 20 hours ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
We were pleased as punch to see City Council moving ahead Tuesday with the creation of a board to oversee the way money will be spent from the April sales tax hike. Regular readers may recall this...
DATE: Aug. 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It’s not true there had never been anything like it before. Fifty years ago, when “Wichita Lineman” was certified gold – the hit version of the song, the one sung by Glen Campbell – it was one of a...
DATE: Aug. 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Joe Biden was justly praised for a speech he gave on the campaign trail in Iowa last week. He tried to take up the threads of all that had transpired in America in the days before. It was, he...
DATE: Aug. 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When President Trump in his speech Monday promoted “red flag” gun laws as a way to reduce gun violence, in the aftermath of two mass shootings last weekend, he was prescribing laws that have been...
DATE: Aug. 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Alex Burness, a reporter for the Colorado Independent, snared a story Monday night that had every reason to display the word “stunner” in the headline, which is always nice to see. Candi CdeBaca,...
DATE: Aug. 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We found ourselves high above the Animas for a few minutes Sunday morning, chatting with a stranger about the deadly tumult of the weekend, this American carnage in El Paso and Dayton. Other than a...
DATE: Aug. 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave a whirlwind round of talks and interviews recently, acting like someone with something to promote. In this case, it appears to be, not the RBG action...
DATE: Aug. 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We emerged from almost six hours of 20 candidates in televised debate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination this week with no great complaints, which may seem odd when so many others are...
DATE: Aug. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
