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My first paying job as a reporter was at the Wisconsin State Journal while working my way through college. I wrote obituaries, covered Rotary Club speakers and occasionally was dispatched to fill in at...
View ArticleWomen candidates hope to turn a wave into a tsunami in 2018
One of the best comedy routines in a year of tragic but hilarious political humor has got to be Jena Friedman’s riff on the Conan O’Brien show on the emergence of Nazis as a potent political force in...
View ArticleNeed a lesson in the economics of tax cuts? Ask a teacher.
The 40th anniversary of the passage of Proposition 13, the California tax limitation measure that spawned about a zillion mutant offspring nationwide, is just weeks away. At the same time, teachers...
View ArticleTo paranoid moms everywhere: Put down the phone and say hello
By now, the writers for “Dear White People” probably have the episode in the can about a freaked-out white woman dialing 911 to report that two terrifyingly quiet guys in rock band T-shirts had the...
View ArticleAfter Masterpeice Cakeshop, Trump’s animus to religion looks “despicable”
In the annals of jurisprudence, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. the Colorado Civil Rights Commission likely will go down in history as a fabulously perishable spun-sugar...
View ArticleWomen quietly emerging from the political shadows in Colorado
There’s a not-so-subtle difference in the Democratic primary ballots across Colorado this year. Look closely. There are women there at the top of the ticket. Hot damn. In its 142-year history, the...
View ArticleA Colorado armchair activist takes on an American atrocity at the border
Denver public policy consultant Katie Reinisch was writing Rep. Diana DeGette and Sen. Michael Bennet. She was furious. She was demanding action. It wasn’t working. The media images kept coming — of...
View ArticleBruce Benson’s liberal education served him well
When Bruce Benson was named president of the University of Colorado in 2008, campus bean counters generally cheered while faculty members grumbled. He was considered a nontraditional candidate since he...
View ArticleFire-breathing coal train must adapt as climate changes
Last winter, when the snow stubbornly refused to fall in southwestern Colorado, folks worried about what the summer heat would bring. Drought had become a way of life, after all, and the risks by now...
View ArticleGuilty pleas, convictions — the truth is out there thanks to heroic reporters
Last week, if you read about the conviction of Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen’s guilty plea, and the grand jury investigation of pedophile priests in Pennsylvania, it probably didn’t occur to you to...
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