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Perspective for Hire

An Exclusive Interview with Colorado Lt. Governor Joe Garcia

Joe Garcia, the Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, has been engaged in academic oversight and guidance for quite some time, having served as President of Pikes Peak Community College Read more →
Build It Downtown, and Sky Sox Fans Will Come

“Is this Heaven?” “No, it’s Iowa.” Most any baseball fan will immediately recognize the quote above from the iconic movie Field of Dreams. Remember when Read more →

Opinion

Time to Hit a Home Run in Downtown Colorado Springs

The controversy surrounding the proposal to relocate the Colorado Springs Sky Sox’s stadium has become a misguided battle between perception and reality. The impression many citizens seem to have is that Mayor Steve Bach is a puppet of some very Read more →
The Blight of Young Adult Fiction

Getting booed by a class of thirteen-year-old girls only required four words from me: “I didn’t like Twilight.” The clamor subsided once I launched into some logical reasons behind the choice: Bella is a poor Read more →
Lab-Grown Meat: Your Dinner of the Near Future

Modern technology has made food cheaper, more transportable, pathogen resistant, and even amusing. Still, many manufactured foods contain little nutritional value, and produce markets around the globe continue to become increasingly geographically homogeneous. Food industrialization Read more →

Analysis

The Dalai Lama on Religion’s Place in the World: Your Thoughts?

Following is a quote from the Dalai Lama, taken from his Facebook website. Please share your thoughts on this in the comments section below: “All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, Read more →
Guessing the Fate of the Cosmos

The hope that humanity will one day expand beyond its solar system, drift in space on self-supporting vessels, and explore other planets is almost universal. The theme occupies a central place in science fiction. We Read more →
Silk Road’s Closure: An Impactful Hit on the Illegal Drug Market

As you have probably already heard, the FBI recently seized and closed down the notorious black market Internet site “Silk Road,” along with its creator, twenty-nine year old Ross Ulbricht. While many law-and-order types gathered Read more →

News

The West Nile Virus Remains an Unwelcome Visitor

Despite its relative obscurity, the West Nile Virus still poses a potential threat to nearly anyone in America, which means its origins and evolution need to be understood. The West Nile Virus is carried by Read more →
White Tattoos Are In

Over the past few years, a new style of tattoo has made an appearance in the ink world. Specifically, the artist still creates a shape or design, but instead of using black or various colors Read more →
In Memory of Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

Digging Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Read more →

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Life Is a Splendid Torch

My life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is a privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used
Happy Birthday, Albert Camus

For myself, I cannot live without my art. But I have never placed it above everything. If, on the other hand, I need it, it is because it cannot be separated

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Backyard Target Shooting

I’m always scared when I first point down range, thoughts racing, imagining every grisly scenario, “What if it misfires and blows off my hand?” Or my face. Deep breath in, Read more →
If the Shoe Fits

At this late stage If the shoe fits Buy it. For comfort is harder to find And a little jig Can jar the memory To green fields and pop flies Read more →
Caladesi Island

Not five minutes after we embarked on the inland path, our eyes watchful for rattlesnakes amid yellow cactus-flowers, the vampires invaded. We wondered about malaria, remembered the repellant lying on Read more →

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Creative Nonfiction

A Reflection on Roadside Memorials

I was seventeen when my grandfather died. As we drove in the limousines to Arlington Cemetery in New York, I looked out the window and saw children playing and people Read more →

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