Op-Ed Articles
Inside Politics: Picking up the leftovers
After all the worries about the legislative session lasting until the last second, lawmakers wrapped up their work Tuesday night, with Democrats and Republicans each claiming victory for key reforms.
2:56 p.m. MT May 8, 2008 |
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Grace Notes: Spicy Women with Flirty Eyes
This column is for the women who come when we call. The ones who keep our kids when we are late home and then feed them quesadillas and red grapes when we’re still not home.
2:18 p.m. MT May 8, 2008 |
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Notebook: Another reason I don't run marathons: Trains
Try as I might, I cannot be a runner.
3:13 p.m. MT May 7, 2008 |
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Fried: Frankly, My Dear, I Still Don't Want a Dam
It's even worse than we thought.
3:13 p.m. MT May 7, 2008 |
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Fried: Schaffer's Macaca Moment in the Marianas
Is Bob Schaffer having his macaca moment over the Mariana Islands?
1:52 p.m. MT Apr 29, 2008 |
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Notebook: Failing my friends
I figured out a few weeks ago that I average about 65 hours of work per week when you calculate the early-morning catch-up on emails, the late nights editing and writing, and the weekends I spend brainstorming and nurturing along other projects that...
1:49 p.m. MT Apr 29, 2008 |
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Piotraschke: Playing With Grandma
My daughter sailed down the slide, giggling along the way.
4:29 p.m. MT Apr 22, 2008 |
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Fried: If Timnath Jumps Off a Cliff, Should Fort Collins Follow?
Our City Council stood up for residents last week by rejecting a request to upzone the northeast corner of Prospect and I-25 from industrial to commercial in order to accommodate a regional shopping center.
4:24 p.m. MT Apr 22, 2008 |
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Boucher: The Anti-Growth Majority Strikes Again
Skeptical that Fort Collins doesn't deserve its “anti-business” reputation?
2:53 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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Renewable Energy Policy Balances Priorities
Renewable energy policy is complex and often misunderstood. A case in point is the treatment of "Renewable Energy Credits" in an April 7 Coloradoan article about Fort Collins and Platte River Power Authority energy policies.
2:20 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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Outcomes Matter—RECs Are a Sham
Fort Collins is missing an opportunity to truly be a leader in renewable energy.
2:19 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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Grace Notes: Doldrums, Buff Brahmas and Fiona
I’m stuck in the middle of the kind of day we don’t want to admit we have: bad-for-no-good-reason, lousy just because, brim full of doldrums. So much actual bad goes on in the world, that “bad-for-no-good-reason” feels indulgent, guilty, wrong.
2:06 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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“America's Best Place to Live” Now Has “Most Endangered River in America”
Many of us in Fort Collins beamed with pride when Money magazine named our city the “Best Place to Live in America” and Outside magazine deemed our city a “New American Dream Town.
2:11 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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Notebook: Updates, we got updates
Due in no small part to my heavy lobbying and patronage, I’m happy to announce that a survey of local journalists has yielded a clear winner in the “Official Unofficial Fort Collins Press Club” contest I started in this space a few weeks ago.
4:32 p.m. MT Apr 15, 2008 |
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Fried: The War on the Middle Class is the Only One That's Succeeding
How bad is our current economic crisis? Here's a clue: Official government apologists, who spent months denying we were even in a recession, now admit our economy is in a “downturn,” but say the recession will be shallow and short-lived.
4:12 p.m. MT Apr 15, 2008 |
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Boucher: A Union for Some Comes at a Cost to All
Keep an eye on your mailbox in the weeks leading up to June 10. Believe it or not, June 10 is Election Day in Fort Collins. Somewhere in amongst the bills, junk mail and magazines will be your ballot.
3:46 p.m. MT Apr 10, 2008 |
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Inside Politics: Space: The Colorado Frontier
Two members of Colorado’s congressional delegation had their heads in the thermosphere this week, as they focused their energy on the country’s space policy.
3:42 p.m. MT Apr 10, 2008 |
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Grace Notes: Racism: Denial and Indignation
Seems my husband really scared someone the other day. He stood before a group, and began a speech with the words “I have to warn you—I can be sexist and racist.”
3:38 p.m. MT Apr 10, 2008 |
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Fried: Sheriff Alderden Battling Non-existent Enemies Once More
No, that wasn't the rodeo you saw downtown last week: It was Sheriff Jim Alderden riding his High Horse once again to battle the dark forces of secular liberalism he apparently sees all around him.
9:01 a.m. MT Apr 10, 2008 |
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Notebook: Getting off my duff
It’s been slow going recovering from the winter ... throughout that dark and cold period, I went to bed early and slept as late as possible, grumpy about the lack of sunshine and full of excuses about why I couldn’t make it to the gym.
8:59 a.m. MT Apr 10, 2008 |
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