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Vincent Carroll

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CARROLL: Coyotes strike a little too close to home

February 25, 2009

Now, I've never been one to worry about the coyotes that apparently infest my southeast Denver neighborhood, perhaps because I've never actually seen one. We've had the odd fox or two in our backyard and, two months ago, a large deer who somehow got over the 6-foot fence and managed to chew off half of the shoots on our bushes before I slipped down to a gate and released him (on the advice of a police officer, by the way).

CARROLL: Holder's hot air

February 20, 2009

Was Eric Holder in seclusion in 2008? Did the attorney general miss the historic year just gone by in which the role of race in America was dissected, debated and deconstructed at greater length than at any time since the 1960s?

CARROLL: Peddling pedaling

February 18, 2009

When Denver officials recently announced they would launch a bike-sharing program this summer, they cited the Parisian experience as an example of what we could expect if the startup succeeded.

CARROLL: Ethics violation?

February 17, 2009

Gov. Bill Ritter's new "climate change coordinator" seems to have quite a sense of entitlement. As The Denver Post revealed Sunday, former House Majority Leader Alice Madden of Boulder took a trip at state expense last summer to a conference in New Orleans after her work in the legislature was finished. She was term limited and wasn't running for re-election.

CARROLL: Reckless senators

February 6, 2009

'The fact that trade protection hurts the economy of the country that imposes it is one of the oldest but still most startling insights economics has to offer." So writes Columbia professor Jagdish Bhagwati in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

CARROLL: Hard to swallow

February 3, 2009

If Monty Python had invented a nutritional law for use in a skit, it would have been something like the one proposed by state Sen. Paula Sandoval, D-Denver, governing the types of snacks in Colorado schools.

CARROLL: Hard to swallow

February 3, 2009

If Monty Python had invented a nutritional law for use in a skit, it would have been something like the one proposed by state Sen. Paula Sandoval, D-Denver, governing the types of snacks in Colorado schools.

CARROLL: Climate czar sponsors

January 29, 2009

Democrats always oppose "privatizing" government - except of course when they favor privatizing government, as we discovered this week.

CARROLL: Obama's stealth tax

January 28, 2009

First, do no harm. If physicians can abide by that precept, why shouldn't the president - especially in a turbulent time like now? If a policy is likely to damage economic growth, then don't do it, or at least not until we've emerged from the scariest downturn in the history of anyone under the age of 80.

CARROLL: Watching your mileage

January 23, 2009

State Rep. Joe Rice, D-Littleton, has got the right idea when he says "we've got to figure out something besides the gas tax" to pay for roads. Hybrid vehicles and, later, a growing fleet of fully electric autos are going to destroy the link between the miles you drive and the amount of fuel tax you pay.