Author: jim.trotter
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Correction
A story about University of Northern Colorado President Andrew “Andy” Feinstein stepping down as perhaps his most important initiative, the creation of Colorado’s third medical school, becomes reality should have said Feinstein has an experienced college dean in place for the College of Osteopathic Medicine when it welcomes its first class this fall. After the…
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Book 2
Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, “Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done” (Currency Press, 2009)
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Older neighborhoods vs. affordable housing
For the past two years, a battle has been raging for control over the character and livability of older neighborhoods in cities throughout the Front Range of Colorado. The older neighborhoods, most of them clustered around the downtown area of Front Range cities, have been ill-equipped to fight this battle. Some of them have organized…
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Tom Cronin: CIA — the mission and the challenges
President Harry Truman established the CIA in 1947 to prevent future Pearl Harbors and to deal with the developing threats of the Cold War. He did not know this espionage agency would later topple foreign governments, assassinate people, operate overseas torture camps, and frustrate virtually every president who came after him. America has always had…
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The Landing In Larimer County provides respite for homeless and displaced youth, young adults
LOVELAND — When Jonathan Rogers was tasked with identifying a topic to base his English 1021 persuasive research essay on in the fall of 2024, the Aims Community College student scouted work on some notable social issues: Capital punishment, the potential negative effects social media has on today’s youth, whether vaccinations should be federally mandated and…
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All aboard: I-70 truck by train rail bridge idea gains steam
Retired Amtrak conductor Brad Swartzwelter has achieved minor celebrity since a story on his truck-by-train rail bridge idea to get semitrailers off Interstate 70 ran in The Gazette on March 15, with television appearances on the local network affiliates in Denver. “Frenzy. That seems to be the reaction of everybody I meet nowadays. They want…
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Town manager blasts Telluride ski owner for neglect: ‘Chuck is not here’
Thursday night was one of brutal critique for Telluride Ski & Golf owner Chuck Horning, who bore the brunt of a rare public rebuke from the town manager of nearby Mountain Village, which was later reinforced by a Telluride City Council member. Mountain Village Town Manager Paul Wisor slammed Horning as an out-of-touch owner whose…
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Correction
A story Sunday about multiresort ski-lift passes and crowding should have said former Vail Mayor Dick Cleveland advocated for an increase in the lift tax. The lift tax already existed. The story also should have said the late entertainer Sonny Bono was a California congressman at the time of his death in 1998. His widow,…
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Trump 2.0, Episode One: Promises, nativist swagger and pardons | Cronin and Loevy
“Here I am,” Trump proclaimed. Trump 2.0 may be older, yet he yearns to be bolder. During his second inaugural address, Trump had scorn, and no praise, for his predecessors, many of whom sat nearby. He implied that, because of God, he was brought back to save the American Dream and reestablish American dominance in…