The last issue of every year, The Times offers a round-up of those who have passed away. It’s a mix of those we recognize, but others who are new to us. This year, The Times added a lengthy beginning of those who died of COVID-19 or complications of the virus. Rodriguez’s story is one of various families who have …
We know that our state and our cities are bleeding because of the pandemic that has swept around the world. We know that many workers are out of a job, and others are furloughed. These workers also exist in the creative sector. You know, artists, galleries, museums, theaters, writers, poets, musical groups of all types, …
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When I can, I read “real news” publications every morning, and usually it makes me wish I had not read anything at all. With so many problems, things seem to be shifting, risking wealth over health. Meanwhile, rationing evening news makes it easier to sleep. Enough, already. Instead, this is a post about something that was …
A story in this past Sunday’s New York Times magazine was written by a chef and owner of a restaurant named Prune. I have never eaten there, but I have read about how wonderful the food and atmosphere were. Gabrielle Hamilton wrote this story, and it is gripping. Suddenly restaurants in New York were shut …
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Tomorrow people mark César Chávez’s birthday, but today the City and County of Denver is honoring this; Colorado’s state workers will mark that day tomorrow. But, we all should be celebrating him. His fight for dignity, fair wages, and better working conditions all seem so basic, but farm workers had been treated like invisible men …
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During this crisis-ridden year, when fear is all around and there’s not enough money, worries are rising about domestic abuse in a frightening time. In a story this week in Colorado Independent, managing editor and writer Tina Griego, has laid it out with information from across the state. And it isn’t pretty, as this paragraph …
Well, of course you can’t. But reading several stories today about the spike in sales of guns and ammunition in Colorado, this makes me concerned. I’m already worried about my family members, friends and neighbors, but now if I go to the grocery store, what might happen next? I’m worried about restaurants and their workers …
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Talk about a shake-up – and days of volatility. But it’s time to get those ballots in before 7 p.m. today. I’m heading off to the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library to drop off my ballot before going to a meeting. Probably a lot of people will be staying up late tonight. And who can …
So NPR this week dispatched two of their hosts – Steve Inskeep and Ari Shapiro – to spend some time talking to voters. Inskeep is in Charlotte, N.C., and Shapiro is in Pueblo. Yes, The Steel City. This radio platform is calling this project Where Voters Are. With Super Tuesday right around the corner for …
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When most people zip along U.S. 34 about 25 miles east of Greeley, the little Dearfield sign is a mere green blip, the three grayed wooden structures mere ruins, the scrub land mere dirt that could not possibly support life. In 1910, O.T. Jackson and others decided to follow a national trend and begin a black …
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