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The DPS circus continues

If the allegations against former McAuliffe Principal Kurt Dennis are true, then I will issue a mea culpa. Dennis, the beloved principal who was unceremoniously let go...

What’s in a place?

Has an author’s description of a place ever been so vivid that you’ve planned your vacation around it?

Safety not #1 at DPS

DPS is broken. When a beloved principal is fired after speaking out against a policy that put him, his staff and students in danger, the increasingly infinitesimal hope...

Slippery slope

One of the most challenging aspects of democracy is competing rights, a conflict that was highlighted in the 303 Creative case that the Supreme Court ruled on earlier...

Bail for accused killers?

How deeply did the great legal minds of our state — and our governor — think it through when they revoked the death penalty in 2020?

Lowbrow-Highbrow

A Yogi Bear/Yogi Berra mixup was simply another entry to add to my list of what I call my “lowbrows” to their “highbrows.”

Championship whirlwind

Over the course of the last two months, two of the sports teams I follow have been in parallel, advancing through playoffs rounds, until last week, in two nights back to...

Romeo, Juliet, Mount Evans

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” How much our society, with its impulse for renaming things, can learn from...

Furry friends

What does it say about someone if his passing moves one to tears without ever having met him? When I read last Friday that Bark-André had passed, I was gutted.

Is no one ill? Or everyone?

In response to a recent study which showed that more than a quarter of adult Americans are depressed, the much-awarded author Joyce Carol Oates sent an ignorant tweet,...