Tag: vince bzdek
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Colorado newsrooms ‘are holding the line’ | Vince Bzdek
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By Vince Bzdek There’s a memorable scene in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” when peasants are loading bodies onto a cart after the plague has passed through town. Trouble is, one of the people a worker is trying to throw on the cart is not quite dead yet. “I’m not dead!” “I’m not dead!”…
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What courageous citizenship really looks like | Vince Bzdek
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By Vince Bzdek What exactly is courage? Ernest Hemingway famously called it grace under pressure. Mark Twain wrote that “courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” C.S. Lewis refined that even more: “Courage is not the absence of fear, but acting despite it.” Is there a particular kind of…
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Town hall to tackle wolf reintroduction, rural economy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Agriculture and outdoor recreation are considered two of Colorado’s most important industries. The outdoor recreation industry contributes over $65.8 billion and 511,000 jobs to Colorado’s economy, while the agriculture industry generates $47 billion and 195,000…
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Town hall to tackle wolf reintroduction, rural economy
Agriculture and outdoor recreation are considered two of Colorado’s most important industries. The outdoor recreation industry contributes over $65.8 billion and 511,000 jobs to Colorado’s economy, while the agriculture industry generates $47 billion and 195,000 jobs annually, according to the most recent data. Yet as Colorado Politics’ recent Rural Reckoning series indicated, these two powerhouses…
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One of the biggest surprises at the DNC — all the Republicans | Vince Bzdek
One of the things that struck me most about the Democratic National Convention last week was the number of Republicans there, with prominent speaking roles. Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois spoke in prime time Thursday night. “I am proud to be in the trenches with you as part of this sometimes awkward alliance…
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Colorado College at 150 years: What’s changed, what’s stayed the same | Cronin and Loevy
Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the first classes at Colorado College. The small liberal arts college in Colorado Springs has been operating successfully for a century and a half. The college has grown in enrollment. Sometimes having less than 100 students when it was first started, today it has a student body of more…
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The homeless program that should be a model for everyone | Vince Bzdek
As the mayor of Denver raced to meet his goal of getting 1,000 homeless souls housed by the end of the year, I kept trying to put my finger on what was missing. Yes, there are far fewer people on the streets of the city now, and many Denverites who haven’t had a roof over…
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WATCH | Community Conversations: After Afghanistan: The Future of Warfare
TONIGHT: Military experts will discuss the future of warfare and lessons learned from 20 years of war during tonight’s Community Conversation, After Afghanistan: The Future of Warfare. Tonight’s discussion will be co-moderated by Gazette editor Vince Bzdek and KKTV digital anchor Jon Wiener. The discussion is happening at the Southeast Armed Services YMCA, 2190 Jet Wing…
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Discover this year’s winners at Best of Springs virtual party
The best of everything around the Pikes Peak region is about to be unveiled. The Gazette’s 27th annual Best of the Springs magazine will land on your doorstep Sunday. Inside you’ll find more than 300 winners determined by more than 50,000 voters in six categories: arts and entertainment, dining, city life, family, shopping and services…
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Is this the country our founders intended? | Vince Bzdek
“Original sources!” American History professor T.K. Barton exhorted us, a cigarette always dangling from his mouth as he lectured. We Colorado College students were held captive more by the question of when the lengthening stalk of ashes might fall to the floor than by the lecture itself most days, but T.K. got us to pay…