Opinion – Kindling by Bob Sweeney – A wise move: Warren Buffett goes into newspaper business
Warren Buffet hosted his Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, May 5. More than 30,000 people gathered at the downtown convention center to listen to his speech, view a film and ask questions of Buffett, 81, and his 88-year-old partner Charlie Munger.
Opinion – Remarks by Mort Marks – Pay tribute to mom this Mother’s Day
We are now told that automation is a process that gets all the work done while you just stand there. When we were younger, this process was called mother.
Opinion – My new dog hates me
Anyone who’s read my blog for the past couple of months knows how I feel about dogs. It’s not that I don’t like them. As a species I think they’re generally fine and great to have around as long as they’re across the street, next door, or tearing their way through someone else’s underground sprinkler system (in case you didn’t know, dogs love to dig up anything that’s supposed to be firmly embedded beneath the earth…especially if it costs about $1,000 to repair).
Politics – Strengthening and protecting Medicare
By Rep. Mike Coffman The 2011 Medicare Trustee report estimates that the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund, for inpatient hospital and related care, will go bankrupt in 2024 – five years earlier than estimated in the previous report. Also, in the 2011 report, the trustees estimated Medicare’s unfunded liabilities total $24.6 trillion. No doubt, we [...]
Opinion – I think I threw the presidential election
No, not that election. The Eastern High School Class of 1988 presidential race. Like, duh. I’m not kidding when I say there’s a real chance I may have tainted the results. Add the fact that I was actually one of the candidates, and you’ve got the makings of an Academy Award-winning thriller. Think All The [...]
Opinion – Why you don’t want me in charge of your memories… or your garage sale
Sifting through almost 90 years of my grandfather-in-law’s stuff just sucks. On multiple levels. In an effort to weave a path through lives still in motion, things become pretty cut-and-dry, and more quickly than I’d like to admit, a keep pile, sell pile and trash pile form. Multiple mounds ebb and flow seamlessly, in constant [...]
Opinion – The Gentle Giant
I have an unsuspecting guest blogger today. It’s my 11-year-old son Taylor, or as I like to call him, the Gentle Giant. Gentle because he was born with a heart much more complex and intricate than most, and giant because, well, he’s really, really tall.
Politics – Businessman seeks seat in redrawn district
Watson says Democrat Kagan out of touch By Peter Jones Greenwood Village businessman Brian Watson says the choice could not be clearer in the state House District 3 race this November, as the first-time candidate seeks to unseat Democratic Rep. Daniel Kagan, who Watson says is out of touch with voters.
Opinion: You gotta pay to play
SUNNY ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN By Stacey Chadwick I just got blown off the court. Again. And I’m not happy about it. Taking every day of my four decades on this earth into consideration, (OK, four decades and some very spare change), my win-loss stats are backlit in a much more flattering hue than [...]
Opinion – How Skate World changed my life
When I was in middle school, we didn’t text, chat with our classmates on Xbox or look up cute boys online. We couldn’t. It was the Mesozoic era, and the technology didn’t exist. So what did we do without the huge cornucopia of Apple-inspired abundance at our fingertips?
Dick Fleming: 
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Foster Smith: