Tag: guest columns
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COLUMN: Region’s colorful history includes Comanches in downtown
During Hispanic Heritage Month, we honor the true history of this region. Aug. 31 marked the 239th anniversary of an event that occurred in what is now downtown Colorado Springs. In 1779, don Juan Bautista de Anza, the Spanish colonial governor of New Mexico, came down Ute Pass with 800 soldiers, militia, and Ute and…
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COLUMN: Region’s colorful history includes Comanches in downtown
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save During Hispanic Heritage Month, we honor the true history of this region. Aug. 31 marked the 239th anniversary of an event that occurred in what is now downtown Colorado Springs. In 1779, don Juan Bautista…
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COLUMN: Taking the political fight to the streets
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I am so done with political mayhem. Done with fake news. Where have all the reasonable people gone? I am so angry that I am taking my fight to the street. I am going to…
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GUEST COLUMN: The case for collaborative bargaining
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Since 1918, the Colorado Springs Professional Firefighters have worked to create a collaborative relationship with the leadership of the city of Colorado Springs. We have done so to maintain and improve the safety of the…
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COLUMN: What’s in a name? A lot that matters
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This is a local story. I am hoping that there are no national implications or applications. I just must tell you that someone in the Sky Sox office at Security Service Field has completely lost…
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COLUMN: Harassment jumping out of Pandora’s box
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I used to be amused with Auntie Max. Auntie Max, aka congressional Rep. Maxine Waters, is serving as a U.S. representative for California. Her use of a dry procedural phrase “Reclaiming my time!” — repeatedly…
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GUEST COLUMN: Vehicle mandate is a costly upper-class welfare program
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper recently signed an executive order committing Colorado to adopt California’s low-emissions vehicles standards. The executive order leaves open the possibility of also adopting the California Zero Emission Vehicle emissions standards, since…
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GUEST COLUMN: Working together to end gun violence
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Too often we turn on the television to see violence with firearms unfolding in our country — at concerts, churches, and even schools. We hear from men and women recounting their stories, and we often…
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GUEST COLUMN: The death of the grassroots and caucuses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s rare when the far left Bernie Sanders followers and the far right friends of Gordon Klingenschmitt share a common political cause, but the recent Colorado Republican and Democrat statewide party primary votes are sadly…
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GUEST COLUMN: Unraveling the quagmire of government components
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The immigrant family separation debacle has, justifiably, raised calls to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ICE is a component of the Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet level department that has been a…