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Eighty years ago, in New York’s Madison Square Garden, 20,000 Americans in good standing assembled to hail speeches by politicians inveighing against Jews and to cheer martial presentations by...
DATE: Aug. 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Several years ago, thinking we might have a use for a Google Voice account, we created one. It is basically an internet-based telephone service without a telephone: You get a number and you can...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper dropped his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination two weeks ago, it seemed obvious he would enter the Democrats’ Colorado primary race to...
DATE: Aug. 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
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 Monday, the Trump administration was said to have “fired back” at Democrats “amid reports that they may be planning retaliatory moves in Congress” (our emphasis). These would be against the...
DATE: Aug. 20, 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 | 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
Fort Lewis College is updating about a dozen panels at the Clock Tower in the center of campus to better recognize the past, "in a way that's fully inclusive of our Native American community on campus and the families directly affected by Indian boarding schools."
