If Democrats can’t learn from Trump’s win, democracy may be doomed Democratic Party mouthpiece Van Jones recently stated, “We’re the idiots. We lost. So we have to go back in the locker room and we have to sit down and figure out how in the hell did we get beat.” Democratic leadership need not invest…
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Readers react to shocking Oval Office meeting Editor’s note: We received a large response in The Open Forum to the televised Oval Office meeting Friday between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Here are a few of those letters, which overwhelmingly supported Zelenskyy and Ukraine. *** Dear Mr….
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Stuck and perplexed on York Street What were the city planners thinking with the York Street reconfiguration? What once was a four-lane thoroughfare with traffic flowing is now a two-lane road with endless backups. If you live in City Park West, forget about even turning right, let alone thinking about turning left. The traffic is…
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Downtown Denver isn’t doing as well as city auditor claims Re: “Gutting Denver’s minimum wage is bad for workers, business, and city,” Feb. 16 commentary With all due respect to Timothy M. O’Brien, Denver’s city auditor, perspective is everything. Thriving? I don’t think so. O’Brien cites statistics outside of downtown Denver, where property and sales…
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NOAA is slated for 880 layoffs of probationary workers. | Kendall Warner/Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images More layoffs have hit the federal government, this time at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States’s main weather forecaster and the world’s premier research agency for the seas and the skies. CBS News reports that…
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NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson helps map the ocean floor to find hazards to shipping. Editor’s note, February 27, 4:50 pm ET: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has begun to lay off probationary employees, according to a source inside the agency not authorized to speak to the press. Laid-off staffers were told that “you are not…
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Demonstrators gather in front of the White House on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, during a rally against President Donald Trump’s executive order about energy independence. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that…
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Media’s focus under Trump administration Re: “Internal Revenue Service: Layoffs hit Denver’s office,” Feb. 21 news story I am sorry for anyone who lost their job, as it has happened to me more than once. I was extremely surprised at all of the attention that The Denver Post and local TV newscasts gave to the…
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Keepers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia prepare to send black-footed ferrets to the Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in 2011. | Cliff Owen/Associated Press In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest,…
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Illustration of thick-walled arthroconidia and arthrospores from the fungus Coccidioides immitis. | Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images As our planet gets increasingly warmer, we’re seeing in real-time the myriad of ways our climate is changing: unbearably hot summers, extreme cold snaps, and more dangerous natural disasters. And when our environment changes, so do we —…
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