BackboneAmerica

Except for flipping burgers at Jack-In-The-Box, I earned my first paycheck as a professional actress. My mother put me on the stage (more…)

Probably we’ve all seen Larry Sabato on TV during election season. The UVA political scientist is usually portrayed as an unbiased (more…)

What forces in America’s economy and culture are threatening the survival of newspapers and diverting audiences to other information sources? What are the consequences for us as citizens in a free society? How can we take charge in the emerging new paradigm; or can we? Discuss all this with Centennial Institute panelists at Issue Friday, May 1, 10:00-11:00 am, on the Colorado Christian University campus. (more…)

What a shot in the arm it was to participate in Denver’s Tea Party. We had no harbor in which to dump tea, but I felt a strong kinship (more…)

These are the times that try journalists’ souls, to paraphrase Thomas Paine, as newspapers try mightily to survive in an exponentially (more…)

Just in the first week since the Rocky shut down, think about the state and local stories that were covered less robustly in the absence (more…)

E. W. Scripps has announced that Friday will be the last day of publication for the Rocky Mountain News. This is a sad day (more…)

“Beginning of the end” toward exiting the recession, President Obama’s upbeat words about the stimulus bill he signed in Denver (more…)

“Thank goodness the Republicans are rediscovering their backbone under Obama,” says John Andrews in the February round of Head On TV debates. Susan Barnes-Gelt scoffs that “tt’s a new day and the Grumpy Old Partisans are tone deaf.” John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this month over Obama’s honeymoon, Salazar’s agenda at Interior, (more…)

As Tom Daschle exits the Obama administration in his tax-free chauffeured limo, kudos to the Rocky Mountain News for editorializing today (more…)

What exactly is the connection between NBC and President Obama?  Is it simply a case of mutual love and abiding devotion?  (more…)

Reports out of Kentucky this morning are extremely dire.  At least 20 persons are known dead as a result of a horrific ice storm (more…)

Newspapers have been an important part of our society, communicating information and news. But the Internet has served the same (more…)

(Denver Post, Jan. 18) You, a captive of the media? No way. Nobody mediates for you. You think independently. You gather your own information and decide for yourself. Me too. We don’t need no media mediating for us, no sir. Yeah, right. In our dreams, maybe, but not in America today. The world is so interconnected, changes so fast, and presents each person with so many choices, that reliance on others for much of our knowledge is inescapable. But which media can we trust, (more…)

(From PoliticsWest.com) Realization: I’ve been posting less here lately, and more on Facebook and Twitter. The quick shots and impulsive (more…)