On Wednesday, February 24th, members of the Golden Public Works department and residents who live near the congested crossing of US Highway 6 and Heritage Ave aka the Great Bottleneck of Highway 6 gathered on Zoom to discuss the long-overdue redesign of the busy, dangerous interchange. This meeting was prompted by an incident in early…
“A house divided cannot stand.” I pondered on those words when I read them from Lincoln’s famous campaign speech given over 160 years ago. For in Lincoln’s day, this quote refers to the nation, the United States of America, to have a unified policy on the abolition of slavery and not to have a division…
The recent addition of scientists into cabinet positions and other federal offices has caused me to breathe a deep sigh of relief, and I’m sure I’m not the only Oredigger who feels this way. It has nothing to do with my political affiliation, and everything to do with my identity as a scientist. I have…
Have you ever heard of the term “excited delirium”? I hadn’t until a week ago, when Colorado called a grand jury to investigate the death of Elijah McClain, the 23 year old Auororan who was stopped by the police for “suspicious activity” while walking, or more accurately: prancing, home on August 24, 2019, and we…
The zeitgeist of our time revolves near universally around important technology companies and their amassment of power over our lives. In what felt like the final season of a reality TV show, Amazon spent the last year courting states and municipalities to fight each other in a race to the bottom of corporate taxes, all…
James Madison once wrote that what differentiated the government of the United States from that of previous iterations “[lied] in the total exclusion of the people in their collective capacity.” Madison, perhaps our most crucial Constitutional progenitor, was apprehensive about the public’s ability to properly judge and vote on all the nation’s laws. No current…
Coal is slowly dying off. Over the past 80 years, coal jobs have been on the decline and the dirtiest of all energy sources, regarding energy production, was eclipsed by renewables in 2015 globally and by natural gas in 2016 domestically. Market forces like automation and decreasing natural gas costs have diminished the demand for…
With the election of Donald Trump as our president, I have heard some people wrongly say that the truth matters now more than ever. Truth and objectivity always matter, even if it goes against the side of the political spectrum you tend to fall on. I define objectivity in this column as equal treatment of…
Censorship is long proclaimed as one of the worst moral crimes against the press or the people’s voice. Oppressive, in fact. But where is the line drawn on what is and what is not censorship? I argue that censorship only occurs when the platform being controlled is a public platform. Twitter and Facebook have both…
Do you think President Donald Trump is a political giant? Or perhaps you think the Democrats or Republicans are political giants? If so, I think you are dead wrong. The real political giant is politics as a whole, which has become a black hole. Let me explain. Over a year ago, I started gaining interest…