I challenge you to seek faultlessness, impeccable purity, maturity, and wholeness. I dare you to balance reason and divine assurance. I oblige you to maintain sanity, stability, and normality. I require your active presence, prolonged compassion, and merciful humanity. I demand intention, ambition, and aspiration. I object to incidental mishap, stray opportunities, and inflicted misery. I refuse […]
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Recycling needs to be a reflexive habit throughout America. In most of the world, including North America, we do one of two things with garbage: burn it or bury it. Neither one is good for us or for the environment. Across the nation, landfills grow, cities choke on pollution, and water contamination damages the quality
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Recently, America saw for the first time in years a stunning display of bipartisanship. The White House joined forces with establishment Republicans in the House to trounce extremists on both sides of the aisle. Together, they successfully defended a cause they both viewed as essential to an effectively functioning government. Unfortunately for the American people,
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When wind slaps wet palms against panes And tempos twist tear drops, triptychs, and time bells into Untaught meanings, our well-to-do knowledge Cracks sky-songs and creates death knells. Spirits drown in blood and sweat and Salt-stained faces because we have forgotten Mysteries once so easily understood. The world of ideas comes through our tongues, But
In 2012, Colorado Springs, Colorado leaders combined two local organizations, the Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Corporation, into one entity, the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance (RBA). Many are hoping this change will end cronyism and usher in a new era of meritocracy. Joe Raso, President and CEO of the RBA, was hired to merge these
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Big-box stores aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. At the Deerfield Community meeting on August 14, 2013, Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach and city employees attempted to explain his upcoming budget and proposed Economic Revitalization Plan (if you’d like to read a brief summary of the budget, click here). The city’s efforts to simplify the message certainly showed
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