*Note: Written to join my own “Arsenal of Ideas”…not for any wider publication. The Spanish Army’s 1700-strong find and fight column had been marching over a week through the jungles of central Cuba looking for rebels. Then, suddenly, in the humid, hot opening days of December, 1895, they found themselves under sustained sporadic fire from…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 1, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Editor’s note: This is the last in a three-part series on the history that can be found along…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on February 22, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part Friday series on the history that can be found…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on February 15, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part Friday series on the history found along U.S. 24…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Los Angeles Times print edition on February 15, 2019. It can also be found online here. A century ago, on Feb. 17, 1919, the U.S. Army’s 369th Infantry Regiment, nearly 3,000 African American soldiers and known as the Harlem Hellfighters, returned from World War I and marched up Fifth Avenue…
Details*Note: This feature was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on February 10, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Matt Cavanaugh was caught in a holding pattern, as it goes for American military personnel leaving a place…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on February 10, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. We’re driving from Manitou towards downtown on Highway 24. I’m behind the wheel, with my 7-year old behind…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Pikes Peak Bulletin print edition on February 7, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. It’s intolerable that Manitou’s library can’t accommodate the disabled and is so clearly inadequate for the community’s needs.…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on February 3, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Today, over 100 million Americans will gather to consume guacamole and gawk at the genuine spectacle Americans know…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on January 28, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Recently, in announcing his transition away from sports to writing about local issues, Gazette columnist Dave Ramsey wrote…
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