*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on November 11, 2018. It can also be found online here. This month, Maj. Brent Taylor of the Utah Army National Guard — who was also the mayor of North Ogden, Utah — was killed in Afghanistan. His voice may now be silent, but his…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on November 3, 2018. It can also be found online here. The Manitou Incline has some wicked problems, but they’re still solvable. However, if key stakeholders, including the cities of Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs, don’t come together soon — the Incline will continue on…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on October 15, 2018. It can also be found online here. At his recent “State of the City” address, Mayor John Suthers claimed that “Colorado Springs has taken its place among the great cities of America.” He’s not the first Springs mayor to concern himself…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on September 30, 2018. It can also be found online here. One hundred twenty-five years ago this week — Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and empire, came to town. He arrived in Colorado Springs on Sept. 30, 1893, spent the day in…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on September 24, 2018. It can also be found online here. I paid more for a book this week than I needed to, and that choice matters a lot to the local economy. Small-business owners live and die on the outcome of such consumer decisions.
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on September 13, 2018. It can also be found online here. The empty chair representing Google at last week’s Congressional testimony in Washington spoke volumes. The nation called, and Google opted out. This might otherwise be excused as an oversight. But it came on the…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on July 15, 2018. It can also be found online here. They’re safe. The world sighed relief as the 13 members of the “Wild Boars” soccer team emerged safely from the Tham Luang Cave in northern Thailand. Their safety was secured in large part by…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on July 9, 2018. It can also be found online here. Roland, our food tour guide on a recent vacation to Montreal, had a great personality to match his great size. Reassured by the reverse of the aphorism to ‘never trust a skinny chef,’ you…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on July 1, 2018. It can also be found online here. 40. The Big Four–Oh. The midlife milestone. If we compressed a lifetime into a single week, turning 40 would be life’s Wednesday — humanity’s great middle measurement. Since nearly everyone alive at 39 will…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on June 18, 2018. It can also be found online here. It was the way catastrophes really happen and not as you imagine them. The trip had been planned for months. I booked the flight to Montreal this past November. Go ahead, do the math.…