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Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist and doomsdayer, stopped in Denver recently to visit with like-minded local activists and strategi…
The Pikes Peak Ascent is this Saturday, and that means it’s time to get high. For the past few Saturdays, I and hundreds of other deranged lun…
What to do about the bear problem on the west side?
It is time to call out all the media for inaccurate storytelling. As a region we are also guilty of racial stereotyping in news and opinion. A…
On Sunday, Aug. 11, The New York Times ran an op-ed titled, “Joe Biden: Banning Assault Weapons Works.” The headline, like the content, is a h…
I am nostalgic for the way things used to be, even if those times were not always the good old days that many of us remember. We have always h…
Public mass shootings are defined by the Congressional Research Service as the indiscriminate killing of four or more persons in a single inci…
We can save 7 million lives. We have made great strides, but we have work to do. My family recently returned from the East African country of …
Most Americans know that our military is standing guard around the world to defend us and our way of life.
One of the more recently developed data centers of one of the FANG corporations (Facebook, Apple / Amazon, Netflix (One of these is not like t…
“I’m looking for the Garden of the Gods. Can you point me in the right direction?”
There’s a faint glimmer of light on the horizon, the first sign of the coming dawn. The long night of racism and domestic terrorism that has p…
We all expressed our condolences when Alexis Bounds, riding in a bike lane, was tragically killed recently when a dump-truck driver making a r…
This city feels like a powder keg with someone about to light the fuse.
If you have to impoverish your neighbor and threaten them with jail to keep the character of your neighborhood, is that character really worth…
I stood in my kitchen listening to the latest news of mass shootings, debates on gun control, and a local protest that happened last night con…
Recently we presented a workshop, titled “Three Punches to Knock Down Democratic Socialism” at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. We t…
Colorado officials are painting a rosy picture of the impact on the economy and the environment from its low emission vehicle standards’ known…
I spent my 21st year in the infantry in Vietnam. Near the end of my tour I turned 22. The squad gave me a birthday party, with a C-ration poun…
I don’t have much to say about the Democrats’ presidential debates in Detroit on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was the just the hyperbole of the p…
California continues to lead the nation in mandating the deployment of wind and solar power. Unfortunately, that translates into rising electr…
Of all the countries in the world we are perhaps the most idealistic. This idealism, which is uniquely pragmatic, joined with our boundless op…
What’s your opinion of Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution? I suspect the reply of the overwhelming majority of Coloradans to t…
The thing about American identity is that it’s not easy to define.
If we’re lucky, we’ll all get to turn 40 at some point. My turn’s just around the corner, and at Life’s Great Midpoint, I’ve stumbled across s…