Tag: guest column
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COLUMN: A teachable moment about respect and civility
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Everybody is talking about Roseanne. Comedienne and television actress Roseanne Barr headed a cast of the popular television show that bears her name. Last week she tweeted: ‘Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had…
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COLUMN: Why we need libraries, even in the digital age
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I often looked up at the enormous World War I-era “doughboy” statute in Memorial Park, Manitou Springs, and wondered about who was immortalized with so much bronze atop so much granite. But there was no…
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GUEST COLUMN: In support of Trump’s terrific tariffs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save What? A free-market economist supporting tariffs? Well, I never! But all the pearl-clutching by the globalist Republican establishment, and by many Democrats as well, misses the point. Allow me to explain. President Donald Trump has…
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GUEST COLUMN: An update on the I-25 Gap project
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There was a lot of email after my January column about plans for the I-25 “Gap.” All comments were helpful in understanding preferences of individual citizens. I sent responses to all emails. Hopefully they were…
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GUEST COLUMN: ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ policy damages homeless
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On a frigid Denver day in November 2016, a homeless man was struggling to stay warm and survive the harsh winter weather. Jerry, a resident of the Denver area for 26 years, was a Marine…
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COLUMN: World is watching America’s response to Ukraine
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Four weeks ago, Ukraine opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili was brutally arrested at a Kiev restaurant. A video of the arrest is available online, taken by a customer. It shows a Ukrainian SWAT team storming in,…
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GUEST COLUMN: Southeast neighborhood will support a stadium
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The southeast neighborhood I represent is poised to play a key role in the hot topic of a $27.7 million investment toward a stadium for Olympic City USA. City for Champions (C4C) funding has been…
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COLUMN: Bring everybody in to combat homelessness
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s an issue that we see often here in Colorado. Homeless camping. Many experience the tangible (and unintended) consequences of “camping” on a regular basis. This includes garbage on private property, brush fires, explosions, human…
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GUEST COLUMN: Managing the problem of homeless migrants
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As homelessness throughout the Pikes Peak region spreads, it draws conflicting responses, at times from the same people. There’s sympathy and a desire to help, but at the same time a sense that we’re being…
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CAVANAUGH: Military leadership for USOC
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Want to fix the USOC? Draft a general. “Why is he sad?” my 6-year-old asked about the young man walking out of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s entrance, whose downward, despondent gaze was as identifiable as…