It’s kind of enlightening when your friend Janet Rowland grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you into a “volunteer” position or two (or three or four!) at your kid’s charter school — in this case Caprock Academy. I have to admit, a good part of this is my fault. At one […]
There are times when I come to the office on deadline Tuesdays and think to myself, “I honestly have nothing I care to write about because, quite frankly, this is getting to all be a bit much.” Some of my friends tell me this is because I pay too much attention to what’s going on […]
My family and I just took our fourth trip to Denver in the last month. To be honest, it was the family twice and my wife alone for two of them. Nonetheless, we’ve driven up and over the mountains a total of eight times over that span. Since I’m not big on driving, and my […]
Every year, my editor rewrites his once-a-year rant about “how to tell your story to the news media.” It’s a comprehensive missive about how to properly write a news release and the consistent mistakes almost every business makes in writing (or not writing) them. As the first paragraph from Phil relates: “As editor of a […]
To paraphrase my favorite president, it is time that we here highly resolve that these walking, living, breathing brain-dead shall die in vain — so that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the few, by the few, for the few, shall perish from the earth. […]
“Get in the game” was the message to corporate CEOs and other members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a recent speech by President Barack Obama. After a series of platitudes and remarks intended to mend relations and make the president sound more business-friendly, Obama’s leftist tendencies sadly came through. Needless to say, I’m […]
Thank you Mark Udall. Our nation’s collective IQ has been dramatically lowered now that your first original idea since being elected senator is actually being implemented. And here I thought the Democrats just allowed you to present ideas (while doing nothing about them) so you felt good about yourself, all while getting you to vote […]
Every year, I try to take a step back and look at the paper (as well as remind myself of what our advertisers and readers have had to say) in terms of how things look and how the paper has grown and performed. The good news is that from pretty much every corner, that answer […]
Not your typical subject matter for a year-end column, I must say. Then again, the earth is going to end in a year from the day I’m typing this, according to my Mayan readers and the medallion I wear on the chain around my neck, so I might as well swing for the fences 24 […]
“Compromise is the lack of leadership.” Like me, you might have heard that quote in some form or another over the years without knowing exactly to whom to attribute it. On the reverse side is another quote I detest with almost all of my being, “Politics is the art of compromise.” And the putting of […]