Tag: May 04 2017 issue
Turning Point
Everything changed at approximately 4:45 p.m. on April 17. That’s the moment when Mark Martinez and Joey Irwin were tragically killed when the Martinez...
David Crosby’s cliff dive
David Crosby loves science fiction novels. Yes, that David Crosby. The mustachioed troubadour; the man who almost cut his hair; the shadow captain himself;...
ICE detains, then releases, man who entered sanctuary
Arturo Hernandez García entered sanctuary on Oct. 21, 2014, the day he was scheduled for deportation. He lived in a Denver church basement for...
Politics aren’t a team sport
W. Kamau Bell has been busy these last few years. As a socio-political comedian who hosts three podcasts and a CNN documentary series, there’s...
Mr. Sake knows a thing or two about spicy tuna
You’ve heard it here before and you’re about to hear it again: Go to your nearest strip mall and check out the restaurants. Ten...
ICUMI (in case you missed it)
You can’t do that on television, erm, we mean YouTube
We’ve all been there. Maybe it’s April Fools, maybe it’s their birthday, but a good-natured...
Letters: 5/4/17
May’s flawed logic
Mr. May uses flawed logic in his article stating there will be $1.6 billion of Xcel profits over 20 years...
A pilgrimage of transformation
Deep in the summer of 2008, Chandi Wyant was in the middle of a divorce when her appendix ruptured. She was also in the...
Ban the brats
They are often inappropriately loud. In a happily bustling restaurant, they are self-absorbed and oblivious to others and their needs. They really need to...
How (and why) to keep the Postal Service public
A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee! But... pssssst... here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for...
The frying pan and the egg
In 1996, my fifth grade class at Mesa Elementary and I earned our sheriff’s badge from Darren the D.A.R.E. lion. We walked across a...
Opioids: Where’s the outrage? (Glad you asked)
So where’s the outrage?
The Trump administration is trying to gin up the drug war again, only this time the focus is on “opioids.”
Opiods is...
