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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Six

EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Six

Posted on January 14, 2022July 7, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Read Part One First and foremost, community is not a place, a building, or an organization… Community is both a feeling and a set of READ MORE

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EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Five

EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Five

Posted on January 13, 2022January 14, 2022 by Bill Hudson

In the photo above, we see people walking through Main Street USA… basically a completely fake version of a quintessential American small town, circa 1910. In the distance we see the iconic Castle…

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HMPRESENTLY: Rebranding Places… and Other Unusual Goings-On

Posted on January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 by Harvey Radin

Now, before you start thinking what’s so bad about snuggling up with a pet, here’s the thing… The energy crisis is pretty serious and difficult for the company’s customers…

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EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Four

Posted on January 12, 2022July 6, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Of the fourteen ideas listed, more than half — eight of them, to be exact — referenced “walking” or “recreation….”

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EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Three

Posted on January 11, 2022February 7, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“Which makes me wonder, why even have the ordinance? If we can spend zero percent. It seems like an unnecessary ordinance if we have the option to spend zero percent…”

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HMPRESENTLY: Psyops, of Sorts?

Posted on January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 by Harvey Radin

It might have been psyops, but, all those years ago, who could have known, for sure? ‘Psyops’ wasn’t, exactly, a household word. But, in the READ MORE

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EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Two

Posted on January 10, 2022July 6, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Instead of biting the tourism bullet, and aggressively addressing our housing crisis, the Council set the stage for continuing division and discord…

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EDITORIAL: Some Encouraging Signs on the COVID Front

Posted on January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 by Bill Hudson

A few days ago, NPR ran a story about two Texas-based virus researchers who have developed a very low-cost vaccine that’s now being administered in India…

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LETTER: The Wrong Expenditure of Federal Money

Posted on January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 by Post Contributor

I was sad to learn the Biden administration plans to spend $1 billion to increase the nation’s slaughter capacity…

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EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part One

Posted on January 7, 2022January 10, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Back in those bygone days, certain kings seemed focused on fighting wars, crucifying criminals, and keeping the treasury well-stocked with gold and jewels…

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HMPRESENTLY: The Will of the People

Posted on January 7, 2022January 7, 2022 by Harvey Radin

Those thousands of complaints got me thinking, about the will of a considerable number of people…

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EDITORIAL: The Myth of the ‘Thin Blue Line’, Part Three

Posted on January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“Well, here it is, in black and white. I am not ashamed of letting the world see the truth…”

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BIG PIVOTS: The Marshall Fire, Climate Change, and Colorado’s Legislative Agenda

Posted on January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 by Allen Best

“At no time during these fires did it occur to us that we might be in personal danger. That perception has now changed forever…”

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EDITORIAL: The Myth of the ‘Thin Blue Line’, Part Two

Posted on January 5, 2022January 6, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“My case took over a freaking year to settle. I did learn that if you are injured on the job and are on Workers Compensation, there is an ‘injury cap’….”

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HMPRESENTLY: In Possibly Perilous Moments… Burning the Midnight Oil

HMPRESENTLY: In Possibly Perilous Moments… Burning the Midnight Oil

Posted on January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 by Harvey Radin

“…From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantanamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal…”

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EDITORIAL: The Myth of the 'Thin Blue Line', Part One

EDITORIAL: The Myth of the ‘Thin Blue Line’, Part One

Posted on January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“Even though my life and career, or lack thereof, has changed, I will always be a police officer at heart, even if my injuries prevent me from serving…”

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OPINION: A Year of Living with Intention

Posted on January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 by Charles Marohn

Those lavish efforts were essentially a joint project between the titans of industry (let’s just call them “corporations”) and those who had the ability to change public policy (let’s simplify and call them “government”)…

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EDITORIAL: Running Out of Gas

Posted on January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“We are in search of a propane company that is willing to do whatever it takes to supply its customers with propane, even if it means working on the weekend or holidays…”

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: What Are the Limits of Free Speech?

Posted on January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 by Gary Beatty

The need to be protected from ideas that offend, or make you uncomfortable, is a symptom of mental illness…

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