Author: PAUL BATURA
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COLUMN: Letters to the editor show vast, differing opinions
There’s nothing like a good letter-to-the-editor (LTE) to remind you how much you love letters-to-the-editor. Just last week, Jose Pienknagura of Manitou Springs penned an instant classic. The best submissions feature a broad constellation of characteristics, and Jose’s letter checked all the right boxes. In lamenting the cost of parking in his mountain town, he…
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COLUMN: Election season is a time for reflection
Millions of voters went to the polls on Tuesday to decide hundreds of key races across the United States ranging from governorships (New Jersey and Virginia) to state supreme court seats (Pennsylvania) to mayoral contests (New York City, Detroit and Seattle), as well as lots of statewide offices and school boards. Jay Leno is credited…
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COLUMN: At Halloween don’t fun-size your life
Absent the ghoulish and the foolish, Halloween can be a fun holiday for the young. Whether dressed as Superman, Batman or Popeye the Sailor Man, many of us have warm memories of trick-or-treating on crisp and cold afternoons and evenings. Leading up to it, there were trips to the pumpkin patch, bobbing for apples, carving…
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COLUMN: The school board member of every child’s dream
If you’re registered to vote, you’ve received a ballot in the mail for the upcoming election on November 4th. Being an “off year” between the presidential and midterm contests, we haven’t been bombarded with as many campaign advertisements as last year – but the races and initiatives are nevertheless important. Across Colorado, voters will be…
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A Broncos’ blizzard and the romance of the West
With the exception of the traumatic and the dramatic, it’s unlikely you remember with any specificity an otherwise typical Monday back when you were twelve-years-old. That’s certainly true for me, but for one – October 15, 1984. I was in Sister Leticia Lake’s 7th grade class in St. Christopher’s parochial school on Long Island. My life…
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A Broncos’ blizzard and the romance of the West
Paul Batura With the exception of the traumatic and the dramatic, it’s unlikely you remember with any specificity an otherwise typical Monday back when you were twelve-years-old. That’s certainly true for me, but for one – October 15, 1984. I was in Sister Leticia Lake’s 7th grade class in St. Christopher’s parochial school on Long Island.…
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Utilities’ ‘Energy Wise Rates’ encourage scarcity mindset | Batura
Colorado Springs Utilities recently celebrated a century of service to the city, an impressive milestone made all the more striking given the Pikes Peak region’s explosive growth in the latter half of its history. Prior to the consolidation of municipal services in 1925, residents were forced to navigate and negotiate a network of providers. Some…
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Utilities’ ‘Energy Wise Rates’ encourage scarcity mindset | Batura
Paul Batura Colorado Springs Utilities recently celebrated a century of service to the city, an impressive milestone made all the more striking given the Pikes Peak region’s explosive growth in the latter half of its history. Prior to the consolidation of municipal services in 1925, residents were forced to navigate and negotiate a network of…
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COLUMN: Remembering those who work while we’re sleeping
There’s an old saying that “Hard work never sleeps” – a maxim that undoubtedly dates back as far as women and men have been working anywhere at anything for anyone. I thought of this while talking with my friend Bill this past weekend. Our sons are in scouts together. Sitting around a campfire up in…
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COLUMN: In praise of the things that last
For the past week, courtesy of a neighborhood friend, I’ve been writing on a 1956 Olympia SM3 typewriter. I have nine other similar machines — three Underwoods, three Royals, two Remingtons, and a Smith Corona. But none of them work as well as this Olympia, which Kevin has lovingly restored. Olympia, a German company dating…