According to legend, Prometheus stole knowledge (in the form of fire) from the gods and gave it to humanity, which, apparently was packaged in…
Race is making everyone in politics crazy. We need therapy firmly wrapped around some common sense.
Today, Sept. 15 is the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month. So, what is it all about? To answer that we can first explain that “Hispanic heri…
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…
With the announcement this week from a former South Carolina governor and representative, Donald Trump now has three credible challengers in 2…
Mexican Independence Day, Sept. 16, is upon us. On the night of Sept. 15, 1810, the Catholic priest, Padre Miguel Hidalgo, who was inspired by…
“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 …
More than half of Colorado’s residents face the dismal prospect of paying even more than they do today for markedly worse health care if the i…
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…
In recent years, Texas has become a bellwether for advances in wind turbines and renewable energy. The wide-open, breezy Texas panhandle offer…
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…
Aug. 25, 1967, 52 years since I first set foot in Cam Ranh Bay. Every year I experience the same thing: the memories, the bitterness of futili…
Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist and doomsdayer, stopped in Denver recently to visit with like-minded local activists and strategi…
When asked to describe a typical school day, many students will paint a familiar picture consisting of a core of English, math, social studies…
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?”
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…
As our state’s roads continue to get worse and worse, Coloradans are wondering when the Legislature is finally going to make them a priority.
During the third week of each July, I pause and reflect on “National Parenting Gifted Children Week.” It’s a quiet week, with little in the ne…
Last week the World Health Organization took the rare step of classifying the Ebola outbreak in Congo as a “public health emergency of interna…
This summer, while the Congress is debating the wisdom and organizational structure of the Administration’s proposed Space Force, the Air Forc…
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the famous phrase, “the medium is the message.” He meant that the true message, more than just the content, c…
Antifa is a loose network of individuals and groups, principally anarchist fanatics and far-left revolutionaries. It calls itself “anti-fascis…
Going to college is a critical step on the path to adulthood for many young people. In the ideal scenario, the college campus exposes students…