Obama must deliver on promise of hope Hope is a good thing, and what a difference a successful election can do to reinvigorate one’s sense of it. Just like electing Bill…
2008
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We all have our myths and superstitions to explain the inexplicable In his column last week “I don’t trust you people,” Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi takes to task those who…
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Plan needed to deal with e-waste This past February I wrote about the looming conversion from analog to digital of TV signals and the implications it has for us in terms…
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Perpetrators of hate crimes are empowered by passivity The news broke prior to Thanksgiving about swastikas and racial epithets etched on the doors of Brock Cureton’s property. Some Thanksgiving for Cureton,…
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Work with energy facts – or have the wind taken out of your sails A wind farm on the heights above Georgetown will bring with it a permanent change not only…
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Time for school district to evolve or die “Adapt, migrate, or die.” That is a line one AP biology teacher delivers to her students to give them a firm understanding of…
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Now that we have a smart president, let’s work on the schools OK, I have to admit I have had a hidden agenda in working to get Barack Obama elected president:…
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A great moment in history – mission accomplished It’s easy to get caught up in the moment and move to the superlative by asserting a recent event is the greatest ever.…
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A changed America: divided we stand, or ready to move forward Today begins the final days of the George W. Bush presidency and perhaps the beginning of the end of eight…
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Conservatism not what it used to be — because it never was to begin with “Conservative,” I suggested. “I know that,” smiled Joe Soccer Dad. “I find it ironic, however, that…
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A talk with Suzy Six Pack and Joe Soccer Dad “Worried? You betcha, I’m worried,” responded Suzy Six Pack when I asked her about her thinking on our current state. It…
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Time to keep electing problem solvers When you got a good thing going, stick with it. That’s what it comes down to with Sen. Dan Gibbs, Rep. Claire Levy, and Commissioners…
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Belief in fairy tale is leading to economic wasteland Regulation: it is the buzz word in the recent Wall St. meltdown. Free marketers, including John McCain who did all he could…
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Amendments 46, 48 will take us back to the Dark Ages Just when you might have thought the far right, religious and secular, had taken a respite from remaking America to…
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Voters beware: There’s lots on your plate in 2008 “Huh, hell! Pay attention!” That is a line my sister would deliver to anyone who seemed confused, not focused or blissfully toddling…