BY Robert Wallace Meyer Has anyone else needed near triple the normal amount of eye drops and nasal spray lately? The dull pall that has descended over our city can irritate sinus and eye surfaces. We are told that it is “wildfires to the north” and that must be the case. The Denver area …
I’ve really enjoyed watching the Olympics and have nothing but praise for the host city of Tokyo. Associated Press reports that the official price tag of the games figured by an Oxford study relates an estimated $15.4 billion, the most expensive on record. So sad that millions of Japanese could not even attend the party …
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I was recently asked to articulate my “teaching philosophy,” something I have thought about often and had formally crafted years ago. Now, nearly thirty years into my career, I have continuously revised and updated my views, and as summer winds down, and we all prepare to return to the classroom, I thought it was worth …
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In my last two columns I wrote about increasing homelessness and homicides in Denver. Today I’ll complete the depressing trio, using the word heroin for the sake of alliteration, the “3 H’s,” but in reality it is far more than just heroin contributing to the rise in fatal drug overdoses on Colorado. Heroin is old …
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Received an interesting phone call recently with a subscriber upset over one of our reporter’s coverage of a monthly organization that we regularly cover. Seems that she did not like what the speaker had to say and strongly disagreed with the speech. Her premise was that we shouldn’t have covered her speech because she …
The Soviets worked hard to show us the best of their country. The fences were all taken down on the countryside because the government owned all of the land. The state farms run by the government workers had no land costs involved in the farming. The same with the collective farms, except on these operations …
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My dad was a walker and a talker. For decades, he and his friend Tom walked our subdivision each morning. They kept an active pace in both their steps and their conversations, and they’d often wake the neighborhood as they chatted and argued about everything on their minds from family stuff and local news to …
Submitted by Bob DoyleGreenwood Village In addressing climate change two basic strategies are important. The first is mitigation and the second is adaptation. Mitigation involves actions that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions or otherwise take up carbon from the atmosphere. Examples of mitigation tactics are replacing fossil fuel generated electricity with renewable energy (solar and …
The best way to get a rainstorm on a ranch is to mow hay. If you drive around rural Colorado, this is harvest time for hay meadows. I like to read a newspaper column in The Craig Press written by Diane Osborn Prather who lives on a ranch between Craig and Meeker in mountain country. …
Pipeline Politics The Intourist hotel in Moscow was the jumping off point for the many points of interest that were included on our U.S. journalist exchange program that I’ve been describing over the past four weeks. The U.S. sent 12 journalists and two advisors to the USSR in October and November of 1975. I was …
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