The kids have gone back to school in one form or another. Businesses of all kinds are rolling up their sleeves and figuring out how to operate…
I am an old white guy trying to get my head around my white privilege and where it began.
Cultural confidence and its close ally, morality, define the character and ultimately, the longevity of nations, whose average historical life…
As a state and a nation, we are working our way through an unprecedented public health emergency and economic crisis. Slowly but surely, we ar…
Shortly before U.S. Space Command was originally established in Colorado Springs, President Ronald Reagan delivered a commencement address for…
A month ago, I used this space to write how my son with Down syndrome was being denied his right to an education as my school district refused…
Recently Ian Silverii, the executive director of ProgressNow Colorado, a far-left organization, in an op-ed column tried to lecture Republican…
After the 2018 election, Colorado Democrats exploited their domination of the state Legislature and control of the governorship to bind Colora…
It does not need to be stated that the homelessness problem in our country is growing at an epidemic rate. One has only to look as far as the …
During a summer vacation to Washington, D.C. when I was a boy, my family and I visited the National Archives. I still recall the awe I felt in…
During a summer vacation to Washington, D.C., when I was a boy, my family and I visited the National Archives. I still recall the awe I felt i…
Climate change is a significant challenge facing humans. Tackling that challenge requires thoughtful policies designed to benefit human lives.…
For a little over two years, the Group Living Advisory Committee, or GLAC, led by Senior City Planner, Andrew Webb, has been working to revamp…
As Denver Public Schools struggles to deliver high-quality online education in the early weeks of a new academic year, it lacks leadership fro…
The year 2020 has been a gut punch to humanity, testing the resilience and shattering the spirit of so many.
My husband and I bought our first home together in Denver in 2003. My husband was selling his townhouse and our wish list was simple: no share…
Colorado can learn a lot from New Zealand. True, New Zealand’s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and Colorado’s continent-bound. New Zealand’…
In March, public school shutdowns in response to COVID-19 affected more than 50 million children. Caught flat-footed, most districts failed at…
Enough already.
When schools in northern Virginia switched to remote learning last spring, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer started planning ahead. The attorney and mot…
Enough already.
Gun rights supporters all over the state are in an uproar. It’s the gun debate — again. However, the fuss this time is over a Nerf gun.
Gun rights supporters all over the state are in an uproar. It’s the gun debate — again. However, the fuss this time is over a NERF gun.
September marks anniversaries for many of us, usually bringing memories of new school years. School is about learning and the promise of succe…
Two trends/challenges facing higher education are a rise of the competency-based education framework and advances in technology for today and …
The American public should be outraged by the incompetence of our wildfire firefighting managers. If you’ve been subject to noxious smoke or s…
The most dangerous aspect of today’s cancel culture is that self-expression carries the very real risks of shaming, ridicule, being outcast, l…
For years, Wall Street enthused about the merits of shifting manufacturing out of the United States.
As a mother, educator, and CEO of the nonprofit Colorado Education Initiative, I have a unique vantage point to the home, classroom, and schoo…
It’s taken about a half century but the radical left-wing and Marxist America-hating faction of academia has succeeded in playing a major role…
The days of a one-size-fits-all approach to environmental remediation are over. At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, we are thinking o…
In Colorado Springs, we are proud to be known as a military town. As the home to Fort Carson, Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Bas…
The state motto of Colorado is “nil sine numine” (“nothing without the Deity”). But we seem to be operating under a different logo, ‘nil sine …
A conservative northern Virginia pastor was holding court with his flock in the narthex of the church. This was in pre-pandemic times, before …
Point: Kristi Burton Brown
Most Sundays, pre-COVID, we’d be at our little church on Manitou Avenue. I’d grit my teeth through the service, gently coercing our two daught…
This month marks the 25th anniversary of a tragic event: the death of three American diplomats attempting to negotiate peace in Bosnia: Joseph…
Ideological diversity is so rare in the ranks of higher education they on occasion bring a conservative professor in for show-and-tell to teac…
Dear Christian conservative:
It is now November 2021, one year after Joe Biden was elected president after a razor-thin election. We have been given a glimpse into the fut…
You can’t support legal abortion and believe it’s murder. You can’t believe America should police the world and bring the troops home. You can…
Congressman John Lewis was a legend and icon for his many accomplishments including his long-standing activism on behalf of voting rights. Amo…
Six months ago, I shared with you the challenges behind Space Foundation’s decision to postpone the annual Space Symposium and bringing the wo…
I run the Independence Institute. Our mission is to return Colorado to the state synonymous with liberty.
The letters: “BLM” are omnipresent these day on NBA basketball courts, MLB pitching mounds, team uniforms, T-shirts, billboards, painted on ci…
The day before I left for my first of three, yes three, boot camps, I spent 12 hours at MEPS — the Military Entrance Processing Station in whe…