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Our storied adventure

February 27, 2009

We've been publishing our opinions - speaking now for a long line of Rocky editors and writers - for nearly 150 years. You didn't really think we were going to turn down the volume on our final day, did you?

After the fall

February 27, 2009

Got any good Scotch?

Kangaroo commission?

February 26, 2009

What is a man's reputation worth to the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission? Precisely 31/2 hours and not a minute more.

Obama's big ideas

February 25, 2009

President Barack Obama seemed to have two main purposes Tuesday night in his address to Congress: reassure Americans rattled by an ever-worsening recession and announce to the nation that he intends to plunge ahead with a bold, ambitious agenda during his first year in office, recession or no recession.

Putin's predictably thin-skinned reaction

February 25, 2009

Russia and especially the Kremlin have always been curiously thin-skinned and even insecure.

Tackling the deficit - someday

February 24, 2009

Just how worrisome our national debt has become was readily evident when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly thanked the Chinese for buying so much of it.

The RTD contract

February 24, 2009

Slumping sales tax revenues - down 9.7 percent in 2008 compared with 2007 - have already forced cuts in bus and light-rail service from the Regional Transportation District. And with RTD's contract with its union due to expire Saturday, some concessions on both sides probably need to be made.

Birds of a feather

February 23, 2009

Perfect. One historical fiction writer and fantasist, Bill Ayers, is coming to the defense of another, Ward Churchill. See it in person on the University of Colorado campus at 7 p.m. on March 5.

Crime-fighting tool must go on hold

February 22, 2009

The state's troubling fiscal environment will prevent several worthwhile initiatives from taking flight. One of them is a proposal requiring Colorado prosecutors to collect DNA from more criminal suspects. In normal times we'd support it, but not this year.

Making sense on charters

February 21, 2009

Some educators are downright hostile to meaningful school reforms, and they suffered a well-deserved setback this week when the Colorado Court of Appeals struck down an attempt to gut the state's charter school efforts.

Burris' options dwindling

February 21, 2009

Roland Burris, the Illinois Democrat appointed to fill the remaining two years of Barack Obama's Senate seat, has asked critics to stop "a rush to judgment." Fair enough.

Cut-rate options

February 20, 2009

Sweeping changes in health-care delivery by the federal government would not be cheap, so they have apparently been shelved for now, due to the recession.

Chasing phantoms in Hoover's FBI

February 20, 2009

It seems almost quaint now. In 1964, the FBI mounted a substantial investigation to determine whether a top aide to President Lyndon Johnson, Jack Valenti, was gay. The investigation never proved that he was, but documents recently obtained by The Washington Post show how much bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover's interest in the sex lives of others consumed FBI time and manpower.

On Libby, Cheney failed to get his way

February 19, 2009

Contrary to myth, former President George W. Bush knew how to say no to his powerful vice president, Dick Cheney. And the president did it most recently on a cause dear to the vice president's heart - a full pardon for his former top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Stemming foreclosures

February 19, 2009

According to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, we should know very soon whether President Barack Obama's $75 million plan to save millions of homes from foreclosure is working - not long, in fact, after the rules for mortgage relief are published March 4.

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