Author: Paul J. Batura
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On Constitution Day, celebrate our Founders’ enduring words
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Schools, banks, and Wall Street are open, but today’s observance of Constitution Day is a holiday to nevertheless cheer and celebrate. It’s been exactly 238 years since 39 delegates from 12 states signed off in…
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COLUMN: Watching for the miracles and angels all around us
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Do you believe in miracles?” It’s been 45 years since Al Michaels asked that question in the final seconds of Team USA’s dramatic ice hockey win over the Soviet Union. Paris has the Louvre and…
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COLUMN: Rooting for passenger trains in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save All aboard? Not just yet. But the dream is still alive for those of us hoping to one day board a train in downtown Colorado Springs, maybe with a backpack full of books and papers,…
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COLUMN: Labor Day Liftoff filled with wonder, purpose
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s been 242 years since the first manned hot air balloon sailed over the Seine River in Paris, an historic event that officially launched the era of human flight. Centuries have past, jet travel has…
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GUEST OPINION: A Rememberance: Dr. James C. Dobson — Man of many interests
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save They say ‘Never meet your heroes,’ but I wasn’t disappointed when I met Dr. James C. Dobson, the Focus on the Family and Family Talk founder, who died peacefully in his Kissing Camels condo on…
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COLUMN: Nobody fights cancer alone in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save You wouldn’t normally correlate the flu with cancer, but that’s how my medical odyssey with the dreaded disease began. It was late February. Mark Bodman, my friend and doctor of many years, suspecting pneumonia, sent…
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COLUMN: What’s the worst street name in Colorado Springs?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was William Shakespeare who famously suggested names were merely interchangeable and arbitrary labels. “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” wrote the English…
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COLUMN: Pathway to happiness: Live the Broadmoor Way
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Not everybody can afford to vacation at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs’ premier 5-star resort, but there’s nothing stopping you from living everyday like you’re there. In founding the hotel at the foot of the Rockies…
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COLUMN: Finding the secret to being a good neighbor
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save According to most studies and surveys, nearly half of Americans gamble — a habit that costs households hundreds of billions of dollars a year. But the number of people who metaphorically roll the dice is…
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COLUMN: The impact of losing Space Command
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Today’s anniversary of the liftoff of Apollo 11 back on July 16, 1969, seems like an appropriate occasion to ponder the implications of the unresolved permanent location of U.S. Space Command. It’s long been suggested…