Author: Vince Bzdek
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Greenland is now Colorado’s problem. And that’s a good thing. | Vince Bzdek
The conclusion to the dizzying odyssey over Greenland this week reminded me a little of the ending of the “Wizard of Oz.” If you recall, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Lion and the Tin Man finish a great and frightful quest only to discover they already had what they sought on the quest all along: brains,…
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Legendary editor David Hall, who led Denver paper to Pulitzer Prize, dies
By Vince Bzdek Editor David Hall, the feisty force-of-nature who led The Denver Post to a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for a series debunking the belief that thousands of children went missing in the United States every year, has died at the age of 82. Hall, of Montclair, N.J., passed away Dec. 31 after…
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Colorado oilmen may play key role in Trump’s Venezuelan oil takeover plan
When President Donald Trump summoned oil executives to the White House recently to push for major investment in Venezuela, an interesting sprinkling of smaller independent companies from Denver was invited along with the big names of American oil. One of those was Raisa Energy, which is based in Denver and Cairo and led by Luis…
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Vince Bzdek: Coloradans are fed up with the high price of cars
Car buyers in Colorado – and America – are fed up. Cars are too damn expensive. The average price of a new car broke the $50,000 barrier last fall, according to Kelley Blue Book stats. The Wall Street Journal recently noted that the price of cars and trucks in the United States has increased 33%…
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell was a Colorado original | Vince Bzdek
One day in 1982, Ben Nighthorse Campbell walked into a political caucus in Colorado to kill time after thunderstorms grounded his flight. He ended up volunteering to run for office that day and wound up serving two terms as a state legislator, three more in Congress and 12 years as a United States senator. Campbell,…
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‘The canary in the democracy mine is local journalism’ | Vince Bzdek
Colorado could do a lot more to save newspapers – and democracy – in rural areas By Vince Bzdek As another new year and another legislative session dawn for Colorado, it’s a good time to ask what the absolute most important things are for our state to focus on in the coming year. Affordability is…
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Tocqueville would have been a Broncos fan | Vince Bzdek
We hear much wailing and lamenting that America has lost its common ground, that social media and its algorithms are pushing us apart from each other, that we don’t gather together across race and class in bowling leagues and sewing circles like we used to. But last Sunday, I got to re-experience what feels a…
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Suddenly, Colorado has a private school choice program │ Vince Bzdek
By Vince Bzdek When I was a kid going to St. John’s Catholic grade school in Denver, I remember asking my mom if she and dad minded paying taxes for public schools since all her kids attended Catholic ones. We don’t mind, she told me. It’s our choice to send you to St. John’s for…
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Clash of the titans: Democratic race for governor pits two candidates similar in focus, but very different in style | Vince Bzdek
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By Vince Bzdek The race for governor is shaping up to be a clash of Democratic titans, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser. They are two of Colorado’s highest profile politicians with deep track records who are remarkably similar in their visions for Colorado’s future, and their choice of our state’s…
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Sometimes feeding the hungry takes a village, and a colonel | Vince Bzdek
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When Nate Springer, the retired Army colonel who is now head of the Care and Share Food Bank in Colorado Springs, attended the opening ceremony for a new American-led water project in Afghanistan in 2007, he was approached by an elder named Mohammed Ayoub. Ayoub let Springer have it. He said the new water pipe…