2012

To Colorado Republican legislators, especially Rep. Don Coram (R-Montrose): “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it…

Has Colorado evolved from hate-state status? Colorado only six years ago defined marriage—arguably unconstitutionally—as between a man and woman, though it’s not clear not where transgendered people are placed on that…

The irritation of pollen and politics Summer’s in the air.  We’re well past spring.  My bleeding hearts are already popping, and the columbine are ready to do their thing. Perhaps looking…

Superintendent a super-tough job This week the Clear Creek School District begins anew a search for a superintendent.  It seems it’s become a biennial event, with a revolving door to the…

Teachers deserve to be respected In her work, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, Diane Ravitch talks about Mrs. Ruby…

Are we teaching the wrong things? If you knew or perhaps guessed it is Mark Twain, the greatest of American authors, who said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets…

Teaching is not that simple “You have a product and a service that we put out there.  Our product is the kids that we produce, and in this day and age,…

Escaping our own prisons “America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It’s ‘winner take nothing’ that is the great truth of our country…

Elway demonstrates that leadership is about making the tough call From the time he arrived in Denver, I was a John Elway fan. He fit the bill: He was the Bronco’s…

Attacks on women are cowardly Name-calling is a personal assault designed to intimidate, humiliate, and debase in order to make the target/victim powerless. It’s about shaming It’s often correlated to sex.…

Men are off base on women’s issues There’s nothing wrong with being ignorant about a subject. It’s holding forth and pontificating on it when one is woefully unlearned that ought to…

Opposing views don’t sit well with some Final installment of a three-part series on the polarization of American political parties In his interview with Bill Moyers, University of Virginia professor of…

History repeats itself in politics Part II of a series on the polarization of the American political process. I concluded last week’s column on the reasons people arrive at diametrically opposing…

The religious nature of politics An old saw says it’s best to avoid politics and religion at social gatherings. Jonathan Haidt, author of the soon-to-be-released The Righteous Mind: Why Good People…

Shouting a barbaric yawp at age 62 On February 15th, young men ran through the streets of ancient Rome wearing only goatskins to celebrate Lupercalia. We have goat skins in Clear…