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No one cared… | The Soul in the Sun
No one ever worried / That learning the horrors of our history / Might make us sad and uncomfortable / From the auctions to the lynchings / No one ever cared about that
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Spring | Whiskey and Words
A row of barstools / has decayed from loneliness / and the curb outside / crumbles from neglect.These days / swing from / apathy to anger / and back.
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Young Folks Will Save Us
My first reaction to the growing conservative campaign to ban or remove books from libraries is that they – sigh – drastically overestimate the number of kids who even know where the library is. This is not to dismiss the…
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Report Charts a Course for Mitigating Wildfire Risk
“Roadmap for Wildfire Resilience: Solutions for a Paradigm Shift,” a new report by the The Aspen Institute and The Nature Conservancy, offers detailed and strategic options for meeting the challenges brought by bigger and more destructive wildfires across the Western…
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The price of open records in Colorado shouldn’t keep them closed
The thorny question of what constitutes “real” journalism practiced by “real” journalists becomes dangerous, especially when the information gatekeepers get to judge their questioners.
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Survivor Helps Put Sex Trafficker Behind Bars in One of the Region’s Biggest Trafficking Busts (Part 1)
Trafficked for five months, survivor shares experience to shed light on largely unreported crime.
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IN THE BLUE: Bar none — Dearth of Aurora cop recruits prompts city to advance, hire applicants who test poorly
“That’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel,” said Wayne Cascio, an industrial psychologist and economist at the University of Colorado Denver, who pioneered the test-scoring system used by the department today. “They’re barely qualified to be able to get…
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Dacono city council begins search for an interim city manager but disagreements remain
Dacono’s city council inched closer to replacing their city manager during a special meeting on March 20, but internal disagreements could further delay the body’s efforts. Special Dacono City Council Mtg. – March 20, 2023 During the meeting, the body…
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Unmitigated gall! | The Soul in the Sun
We’ve have watched you / Come after us and our rights / Time and time again / Every single generation / Every time we start to shine / Every single time!
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Rejection | Whiskey and Words
Even when you anticipate it / the sting pulses through you / whether it’s a love interest / who picked someone else / or the local poetry festival / that rejected your work / as unsurprising as it is. /…
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