Despite what Don McClean sang in “American Pie”, there is no specific day that the music died. From Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens to Elvis and many others, the music dies in piecemeal fashion, one musician at a time. The most recent death is iconic Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts, passing away recently at age …
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Back in the early newspaper days we would train new reporters on writing factual information on local issues. Sometimes a writer would stray off the local subjects and we would refer to that writing abstractly as “Afghanistanism.” Times have changed and now that country is at the epicenter of the world’s focus and dominating …
“Life is managed; it is not cured.” Each fall in the early weeks of school, I read to my class a list of “Life Strategies for Teens” from a book by Jay McGraw. The book is a collection of contemporary folk wisdom and pop psychology from the son of television therapist Dr. Phil. The list …
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced on August 2, a COVID vaccine mandate for all city employees and private sector healthcare workers. The latter includes doctors, nurses, and other medical staff working in anything from a hospital to a private office to a nursing home. What does this mean? What are the implications? This is not …
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Saturday Gerri and myself took a tour of the vast spread of land that stretches all the way out to the Wein’s Ranch in Douglas County where they raise, process, and sell angus, with no hormones, healthy beef, pasture raised and finished to prime beef standards. Orders being taken now: 303-681-3831. diana@wiensranch.com I’ve known Tom …
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My daughter Susan, creative marketing director of The Villager, was conversing with me over the weekend about all of the valuable news and coverage that The Villager provides to readers each and every week. She related, “Who would cover all of these meetings and cities if The Villager did not exist?” There is a thin …
A colleague of mine never liked the idea of rigor in schools. Now that might seem like a shocking or disappointing view for a teacher. Education, as we know, should be challenging and even difficult, for learning valuable new skills is never supposed to be simple. There’s no free lunch, and nothing of value comes …
Judging by the ovations he received during the four-game series with St. Louis over the Fourth of July weekend and again at the All-Star Game, Coors Field fans still consider Nolan Arenado one of their all-time favorite players. I’m not one of them. I marveled at his amazing defensive skill, cheered his clutch hitting and …
Watching the Olympics with breathless anticipation of athletes being at the top of their game after years of preparing for this moment, is exhilarating. Listening to their TV interviews captivates me as they describe their training regimen. Many get up at the crack of dawn, work out and practice for 8-10 hours a day working …
BY Jeff Anderson I first encountered his name a few years ago when I spotted it on the Colorado Freedom Memorial. Panel 19, column 2, row 47—Manuel B. Sapien, Jr. His name stood out from the more than 6,000 honored on that memorial because I knew a man with the same name. I asked my …
