Letters to the Editor
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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing and detention center in Aurora has gotten a lot of attention lately. On July 12, it was set…
What internet sites have more viewers that Amazon, Netflix, YouTube and Twitter combined every month? Pornography.
Everyone deserves a birth and a death filled with grace. Death isn’t exactly the most comfortable dinner table topic. It is very intimate and …
Somebody must give El Paso County Republicans a swift kick and I regret to be the one to do it.
According to legend, Prometheus stole knowledge (in the form of fire) from the gods and gave it to humanity, which, apparently was packaged in…
When you were a child, and burst into tears over something small, your parent may have blurted, “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry…
“Shareholder Value Is No Longer Everything, Top C.E.O.s Say.” So read the headline over an Aug. 19 story in The New York Times reporting on a …
Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15, the Anza Society International (ASI) is holding its 24th annual conference …
Under pressure to improve performance within its district, especially at struggling schools, Denver Public Schools has created a task force to…
An open letter to Gov. Jared Polis:
The geographic characteristics that define our state and foster industries that generate billions of dollars in annual revenue are unfortunate…
It’s post-race Monday, so thousands of readers are ripping open the paper and looking online to check the times put up by the thousand-plus Pi…
Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist and doomsdayer, stopped in Denver recently to visit with like-minded local activists and strategi…
Some people go to stores like Home Depot for nails. Some for wood. Others, for tips, tricks, and good ideas (or the occasional cool slogan-lab…
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?
Some people go to stores like Home Depot for nails. Some for wood. Others, for tips, tricks, and good ideas (or the occasional pep talk, sloga…
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?”