Tina Griego

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Tina Griego is a native New Mexican and has been Denver resident since 1998. She was a reporter for 13 years, most of that for the Los Angeles Times and the Albuquerque Tribune. After two years as a project reporter for the Rocky, she became a columnist for the Denver Post in 2000. She decided to come back home to the Rocky in November 2002. She won the National Headliner Award in 1998 for a project on the battle to legalize casino gambling on New Mexico's American Indian reservations.

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In Cornerstone Chronicles, Griego follows four Windsor families as they rebuild their lives after the May 22 tornado that killed one person, destroyed 80 homes and damaged nearly 800 others.

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Recent stories

GRIEGO: This is what has called my heart

February 27, 2009

Ireceived an e-mail earlier this week from a woman who was a counselor at ThunderRidge when I was writing about the Highlands Ranch school. She reminded me that it had been nearly 10 years since I visited the school, and I thought wow, 10 years, just like that. I hadn't been long at the Rocky then. I was pregnant with my first child.

GRIEGO: Why dropping out is no longer an option

February 26, 2009

Among the best passages in President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night was this: "And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It's not just quitting on yourself; it's quitting on your country."

GRIEGO: Stimulus sparks sense of hope

February 23, 2009

While President Obama was in town last week signing the stimulus bill, a construction training class was in session on the other side of town, a poorer side, in a neighborhood caught between working-class and gentrified.

GRIEGO: Sex and the realities of abstinence

February 19, 2009

The headline out of Fox News' interview with Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has been the unwed teen mother's declaration that abstinence is not realistic.

GRIEGO: The unexpected comfort of ghosts

February 16, 2009

I'm still emerging from the flu that took me down for the count last week and has now moved on to my children. The house has not been awash in this many bodily fluids since the kids were newborns.

GRIEGO: Limbo is a tough place to live

February 9, 2009

I stopped by Tennyson Street for February's First Friday festivities, and that there were, in fact, festivities came as something of a surprise.

GRIEGO: Economy's down, but La Junta isn't

February 6, 2009

To give you a sense of the mind-set of some of the people of the Arkansas Valley in regard to the current economic crisis, allow me to introduce Gary Shane. His farm produced 240,000 40-pound boxes of cantaloupe last year.

GRIEGO: Escaping the undertow of poverty

February 4, 2009

The eldest of Oshanette Neal's six children sits in her college dorm room, laughing at her roommate's talk of boys and their selfish foolishness and how, despite this known defect, they do manage to be cute and therefore capable of breaking your heart.

GRIEGO: Feeling bad vibrations in the Golden State

January 29, 2009

Back now from California, the mega-state which never fails to serve as a reminder that everything is relative. Los Angeles County alone has twice as many residents as Colorado, which is one reason I'll never go back to L.A. The state as a whole has more than seven times the population of our own estimated 5 million souls.

GRIEGO: This vast sometimes shocking life

January 26, 2009

My dearest friend and I are sitting in her living room in a place not large enough to be called a proper town and, from my limited knowledge of it, holding no aspirations to become one.