I’m beginning to wonder. What stories will our kids tell their kids? Will it be ones of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker? Because these days it feels more like the baker and the red hen faker. Is this really the point we’re at in our country? While you might have a differing […]
I maintain a real hate-love relationship with deadlines. How about you? I list hate before love because that’s the chronological order in which I encounter these alternating emotions. I absolutely loathe deadlines the nearer they approach, but then grudgingly appreciate their value once they’ve whizzed past. Those who write for a living or are masochistic […]
….will stay these couriers from the swift completion of their delivery of gloom. Bad play on words? Perhaps. But if you get mail, you get what I mean. And that’s just the Republican junk mail stuffed into my mailbox when I opened it yesterday — after ignoring it for a week or so as is […]
Efforts to attract entrepreneurs to the Grand Valley as a great place to both work and play appear to be working. It’s become an effective strategy at a time of growing discontentment with the high prices and suffocating congestion of life in big cities. Add the RockyMounts bicycle rack manufacturer to the list of outdoor […]
It’s a seductive and, therefore, popular concept: Everything you need to know can be gleaned from a single source. Robert Fulghum provides the best — and, I’d contend, most compelling — example in his book claiming right in the title “Everything I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” It’s difficult to dispute the […]
I know I tend to write a lot about the national political scene. But national political topics are important to me because my first reference on them is the Constitution, and that’s where I always go when it comes to any law. To understand my mind (well, as I understand my mind) I base everything […]
Seldom have there been heard fewer discouraging words about business and labor conditions in Mesa County. Growing gains come with growing pains — chief among them a tighter labor market that makes it more difficult for businesses to hire employees as well as higher housing costs. Overall, though, the news couldn’t be much better — […]
It’s sorely tempting for members of one generation to dismiss members of a younger generation as generally possessing less of the skills or work ethic required to achieve success. It’s easy to stereotype the younger generation as too obsessed with smartphones, social media and video games to ever amount to much. It’s ridiculous, of course, […]
We all recall John Edwards’ campaign story about how there are two Americas and how that story was used to drive a wedge between the “haves” and “have nots.” And since Edwards was using the politics of envy to garner votes, he made sure to tell you that you were indeed a “have not.” Fortunately […]
I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve long harbored an unusual fantasy. No, not that kind of fantasy. I want to be a commencement speaker. Each graduation season renews my yearning to join those invited to campuses to shower graduates with their wit and wisdom. I can almost hear the raucous laughter that follows a […]