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Category: Essays/Poetry

A Debate Over Black Civil Rights in Colorado’s Final Territorial Legislature

A Debate Over Black Civil Rights in Colorado’s Final Territorial Legislature

Posted on February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 by Colorado Newsline

Language protecting racial equality in CU admissions drew opposition from Democratic lawmakers…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Eight

EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Eight

Posted on February 6, 2026February 24, 2026 by DC Duncan

We did our first concert at a festival at Lee Park; special guest, Randy Lee on sax. The crowd numbered in the thousands…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Honor the Linemen

Posted on February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 by John Tures

Thanks go out to these tough linemen, on the field or on the snowy streets of our cities, from a grateful writer…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
BIG PIVOTS: What Would John Wesley Powell Say About the Colorado River Crisis?

BIG PIVOTS: What Would John Wesley Powell Say About the Colorado River Crisis?

Posted on February 4, 2026February 4, 2026 by Post Contributor

John Wesley Powell was both an adventurer and a scientist. Perhaps that’s exactly what we need now to end the Colorado River stalemate

Posted in Essays/Poetry
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Seven

EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Seven

Posted on January 30, 2026February 11, 2026 by DC Duncan

We were booked two weeks at the Big Country, owned and operated by Snuffy Smith…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Six

EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Six

Posted on January 23, 2026February 24, 2026 by DC Duncan

Marching to the beat of two different drummers…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
In 1876, Colorado’s New Public University Stood Finished... But Empty

In 1876, Colorado’s New Public University Stood Finished… But Empty

Posted on January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 by Colorado Newsline

Local dignitary and early University of Colorado booster viewed public schooling as ‘the palladium of our liberty’…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

ON LAND: No Smoke, No Fire, in Montana Land Ownership Trends

Posted on January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 by Post Contributor

The study opens by noting that most wildlife habitat in the United States is privately owned…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Five

EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Five

Posted on January 16, 2026February 24, 2026 by DC Duncan

The new and final name for the band was ‘Django’, named after guitar legend Django Reinhardt…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
How ‘Agitators’ for Women’s Suffrage Shaped Colorado’s 1876 Constitution

How ‘Agitators’ for Women’s Suffrage Shaped Colorado’s 1876 Constitution

Posted on January 13, 2026January 19, 2026 by Colorado Newsline

With statehood on the horizon, national suffragists sensed opportunity in the Western territories…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Four

EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Four

Posted on January 9, 2026January 16, 2026 by DC Duncan

I was somehow cast with a Country trio called the Country Truckers. (I enjoyed calling it the ‘Mother Truckers’…)

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ESSAY: A Year of Progress, Partnership, and Gratitude

ESSAY: A Year of Progress, Partnership, and Gratitude

Posted on January 5, 2026January 5, 2026 by Post Contributor

These accomplishments represent just a portion of the important initiatives undertaken over the past year…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Three

EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Three

Posted on January 2, 2026January 9, 2026 by DC Duncan

We were a cover band, a commercial dance band. And we put on a pretty good show…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: A Resolution to Write in 2026

Posted on January 2, 2026January 2, 2026 by John Tures

“And what are you doing different during the coronavirus?” they asked. “Nothing,” I admitted, having just lost a few column-writing gigs…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Two

EVIL MISTRESS: A Lifelong Affair with Music, Part Two

Posted on December 26, 2025February 24, 2026 by DC Duncan

People always come up to me and ask why I’m not in Vegas or touring with a national act…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

BOOKISH: Writer’s Block

Posted on December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 by Richard Donnelly

Start a fire…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Posted on December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 by John Tures

The song lyrics have been haunting me over the past few weeks…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

BOOKISH: Writing Comedy

Posted on December 9, 2025December 9, 2025 by Richard Donnelly

The joke is always on us. All of us…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

BOOKISH: A.I. is a Bad Friend

Posted on December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 by Richard Donnelly

Cue what will one day be known as the first of The Great AI Lawsuits: Bartz v. Anthropic…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
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