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Only Congress can make laws, and it has the even greater power of the purse, to pay for them. Everything else is basically reserved to the executive. Logically, if a president cannot spend money,...
DATE: Jan. 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
R ecently, on the heels of the release of a new U.N. report on emissions and climate change, host Rachel Martin had a climate policy expert, Elliot Diringer, on NPR’s Morning Edition. Diringer...
DATE: Dec. 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One of the things that has us scratching our heads lately is that so little attention has been paid to the quincentennial of the conquest of Mexico. Five hundred years is an auspiciously long and...
DATE: Dec. 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In the Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate in Colorado, to see who will have the opportunity to take on the incumbent, Republican Cory Gardner, in 2020, former Gov. John Hickenlooper has been...
DATE: Dec. 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When God made Dolly Parton, she broke the mold. A singer-songwriter with a lush voice and a sharp style, Parton notched the biggest hit of all time sung by another: “I Will Always Love You.”...
DATE: Dec. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
On Nov. 5, when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was scheduled to give a lecture on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University in Illinois on “The Real Meaning of the Trump Agenda,”...
DATE: Dec. 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Michael Bennet, one of our favorite Colorado senators, made a fine if sputtering bid for attention in the Democratic primary contest for the 2020 presidential nomination earlier this year. He has...
DATE: Dec. 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One hundred and sixty years ago, European-Americans flooded west of the Mississippi for the first time, to the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. They established Denver and fed the fleeting myth of the West as...
DATE: Dec. 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Forty years ago in Iran, a few young people got together and thought it would be a good idea to seize and occupy a foreign embassy, to show their support for the revolution that had just brought a...
DATE: Dec. 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The first U.S. National Championship tennis tournament took place in 1881 on grass in Newport, Rhode Island. Dick Sears, a Harvard student who had picked up the game two years before, won the...
DATE: Dec. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
With the recent announcement that Coors is moving its headquarters from Denver to Chicago, there was another end, or the middle of the end, to the brewery’s long saga with Colorado and the West. Of...
DATE: Nov. 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Days of thanksgiving have been celebrated in North America going back at least to the 17th century, and almost certainly before that. The Thanksgiving we celebrate in modern times, however, really...
DATE: Nov. 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
