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World Series watch: Talent, money, ‘stat-geeks’ and coaches’ intuition | Tom Croni
Coloradans mostly gave up watching baseball this year because the Colorado Rockies were not worth watching — and that’s being polite about it. But now sports fans have a World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays that will be widely watched. And it will be exciting, even if the wealthy,…
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Tom Cronin: Leadership capital, and its paradoxes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Leadership capital” is a general metaphor used in business, politics and the military to denote that a “leader” has approximately so much prestige or usable “currency.” It is not exactly the same as power or…
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Older neighborhoods vs. affordable housing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Cronin & Loevy: El Paso County Bar Association affirms values in U.S. Constitution
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, remarked in April that, “We are all afraid.” She may have been speaking about her congressional colleagues or, more broadly, about people in public life. Murkowski also warned there was a serious fear at the moment of “retaliation” in public life in the United States. Many others, including the local…
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New biography details Mark Twain’s evolution as a political voice | Tom Cronin
America’s best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and activist A lengthy and remarkably revealing new biography by prize-winning author Ron Chernow (“Mark Twain,” Penguin, 2025) highlights Twain’s evolution from a parochial pro-Confederacy, anti-abolitionist…
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Colorado Springs will challenge state law on accessory dwelling units
The City Planning Department is drafting an accessory dwelling units (ADUs) law that works for the city and is best for the city and pays less attention to state requirements for ADUs enacted by the legislature earlier this year. According to City Planning Director Kevin Walker, the city planners had been working hard to make…
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The Jimmy Carter story: 1924-1954 | Cronin and Loevy
Jimmy Carter wrote 32 books, and many more than that have been written about his unusual presidency and remarkable life. Both of us have written about him and taught about him. One of us met with Carter a few times and corresponded with him. Two of the best biographies about Jimmy Carter have been published…
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Exercising effective leadership is hard to do | Cronin and Loevy
“One of the most universal cravings of our time is a hunger for compelling and creative leadership,” wrote one of our mentors, political scientist James MacGregor Burns. Yet, nowadays, leaders nearly everywhere are having a rough time. Syrians have tossed out their brutal dictator and are scrambling to put together provisional leadership. South Koreans have…
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Planning commission calls for one ADU per single-family lot | Cronin and Loevy
The five-hour-long meeting of the Colorado Springs City Planning Commission Wednesday went a long way toward clearing the air about accessory dwelling units in the city of Colorado Springs. Accessory dwelling units are second homes built on a lot that can be rented to other families. Most are located at the back of the lot…
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Homeowners’ associations band together to halt accessory dwelling units | Cronin and Loevy
There is a new political movement taking place in Colorado Springs and environs. Volunteer homeowners’ associations, previously content to wend their own way in city politics and serve only their own interests, are banding together to put broader political pressure on our City Council. A prime example is Westside Watch, an informal association of 20…