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Woody Allen observed that 80% of success is showing up. It seems like an ageless truth, proven again Tuesday when activists asked City Council to pass an ordinance eliminating the use of some kinds...
DATE: Nov. 21, 2019 | UPDATED: 7 minutes ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
Life in Ukraine, a country which lies shoulder to shoulder with Russia and scores high on an international scale of corruption, requires desperate measures. Last spring, voters elected a television...
DATE: Nov. 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
No thinking Democrat believes the impeachment hearings going on in Washington over Trump’s clear quid pro quo with Ukraine will result in forcing him from office. The Republican majority in the...
DATE: Nov. 19, 2019 | UPDATED: 2 days 2 hours ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
Up in Franktown, between Colorado Springs and Denver on the western edge of the Plains, a funny-looking deer showed up the other day – a whitetail, apparently, a youngish male with a small rack....
DATE: Nov. 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
On Nov. 5, when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was scheduled to give a lecture on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University in Illinois on “The Real Meaning of the Trump Agenda,”...
DATE: Nov. 15, 2019 | UPDATED: 6 days 1 hour ago | CATEGORY: Editorials
Michael Bennet, one of our favorite Colorado senators, made a fine if sputtering bid for attention in the Democratic primary contest for the 2020 presidential nomination earlier this year. He has...
DATE: Nov. 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One hundred and sixty years ago, European-Americans flooded west of the Mississippi for the first time, to the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. They established Denver and fed the fleeting myth of the West as...
DATE: Nov. 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
You may have seen there was a fellow up in Pueblo who got himself in scalding water with the FBI last week (“Man who spoke of hating Jews held in Colorado temple bomb plot,” Nov. 4). It was not by...
DATE: Nov. 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
La Plata County’s off-year election had few ballot questions and candidates, but it could easily be labeled as the election for libraries. The award-winning Pine River Library in Bayfield will have...
DATE: Nov. 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Forty years ago in Iran, a few young people got together and thought it would be a good idea to seize and occupy a foreign embassy, to show their support for the revolution that had just brought a...
DATE: Nov. 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The first U.S. National Championship tennis tournament took place in 1881 on grass in Newport, Rhode Island. Dick Sears, a Harvard student who had picked up the game two years before, won the...
DATE: Nov. 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
With the announcement last week that Coors is moving its headquarters from Denver to Chicago, there was another end, or the middle of the end, to the brewery’s long saga with Colorado and the West....
DATE: Nov. 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
