Some of my favorite football highlights actually serve as mini lessons in life. Leon Lett and Don Beebe represent my very favorite example. Lett picked up a fumble and was rumbling towards the end zone, but he began to showboat before he scored. Don Beebe caught up to him and stripped him of the football, [...]

Senator Joe Lieberman set the blogosphere ablaze on Tuesday with his announcement that he would not vote for the current Health Care reform bill if it included a “public option”. In fact, he said he would even join the fight against it, saying “We’re trying to do too much.”
While his Democratic Senate colleagues downplayed the [...]

The fight that the Obama administration has picked with FOX News has elicited more web traffic than Balloon Boy, so you know it’s a big deal. And while we have heard a variety of takes about what this says about Obama, whether it was a blunder or a Machiavellian move of brilliance, I think the [...]

The growing controversy over the proliferation of medical marijuana dispensaries is serving as a very interesting test of which way the political winds are blowing.
 In states that have legalized the use and distribution of marijuana for medicinal reasons, like Colorado, dispensaries are popping up like Starbucks on steroids. Nationally and locally, politicians of all different [...]

Education spending is always a controversial topic. Most everyone agrees that we should have top notch schools with great teachers helping our kids become well educated leaders of tomorrow. However, almost no one agrees on how we should do that and how much we should have to pay to make that happen.
This week’s decision from [...]

Well, if he wanted to be famous, he got his wish. Richard Heene will now be known around the world as the guy who hid his kid for a better reality show deal. That’ll be a nice reputation for him in prison.
 I know we have all heard about just about enough regarding this story, but [...]

A task force of the Metro Mayors Caucus met earlier this week and the major topic of conversation was Fastracks, and how to complete the entire project as advertised in 2004.
Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer presented a proposal that would ask voters for a second tax increase for the project, but would have that money only [...]

Lynn Bartels wrote an article in Tuesday’s Denver Post, detailing how Scott McInnis is refusing to debate his Republican gubernatorial primary opponents, Josh Penry and Dan Maes.
As a debate producer, I feel it is exactly this strategy that makes people hate politics and politicians. I realize my bias as a producer, so let’s approach this [...]

It’s Columbus Day again and the argument of exactly who Columbus was and if he deserves his own holiday is officially renewed.
Historians have discovered quite a bit of their own new world lately by finding out who “discovered” this continent well before Columbus ever landed and have outlined much more detail of Columbus’ actions in [...]