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WASHINGTON – Transparency, thy name is Trump. No filter, no governor, no editor lies between his impulses and his public actions. He tweets, therefore he is. Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and...
DATE: July 31, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
News accounts of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s recent decision to accelerate renewable energy goals for Colorado and join the “U.S. Climate Alliance,” aligning the state with international commitments...
DATE: July 31, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
How can local schools and communities work together for student success? That is one of the questions Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 is asking community members this summer. The district has...
DATE: July 27, 2017 | COLUMN: Education Update
WASHINGTON – If we learned anything from the bitter debate over the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) – which seems doubtful – it is that we cannot discuss health care in a way that is at once...
DATE: July 24, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – The Russia scandal has entered a new phase and there’s no going back. For six months, the White House claimed that this scandal was nothing more than innuendo about Trump campaign...
DATE: July 20, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Every so often, someone brings me a horse that, at no real fault of its own other than the passage of time, has gotten big and strong and is used to doing whatever it wants, whenever it wants. When...
DATE: July 17, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law in 2001. Since that time, Colorado has tested students and used the tests and other assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of the K-12...
DATE: July 17, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Curious to understand why some rural Colorado communities located in the same geographic area with similar populations and assets thrive while others do not, the Colorado Office of Economic...
DATE: July 13, 2017 | COLUMN: From the Mayor
WASHINGTON – This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrated July 4, they were mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at each other. A recent Pew poll finds that...
DATE: July 13, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The Department of Veterans Affairs implemented the pre-need burial eligibility determination program to assist anyone who would like to know if they are eligible for burial in a VA national...
DATE: July 11, 2017 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
WASHINGTON – Across 25 years and five administrations, we have kicked the North Korean can down the road. We are now out of road. On July 4, North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile...
DATE: July 10, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I was born in Austin, Texas, back before Austin was cool. The Armadillo World Headquarters didn’t exist yet. Dwight Eisenhower was president and television (if you were fancy enough to own one) was...
DATE: July 3, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns