• Tonight, my apartment complex was broken into. One of my neighbours was traumatised by a homeless drug addict trying to gain entrance into his apartment, yelling, screaming, throwing things. Several minutes wondering what would happen if it were worse—someone was inside, if someone got hurt what do we do? And while the intruder was yelling,

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  • Trump’s National Guard Landscaping Service: Making America Rake Again Washington, D.C. has officially become the nation’s most expensive lawn-care project. Forget defending the capital or training for war—the National Guard is now spreading mulch, picking up trash, and pruning shrubbery on the National Mall. Why? Because President Trump decided that the National Park Service wasn’t

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  • So apparently DOGE—yes, the Department of Government Efficiency—put Social Security numbers on a risky server. Cue the pearl-clutching, the congressional hearings, and the headlines meant to terrify Grandma into thinking her retirement check just got hijacked by a pixelated dog. Because let’s face it Grandma doesn’t know the difference between the Department of Government Efficiency

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  •   Denver’s politicians have a dream. A gleaming, eco-friendly dream where sleek buses glide down Colfax, cyclists own the road, and the average Denverite trades in their Subaru for a bus pass. It’s a vision of a city where cars are relics and public transit reigns supreme. But let’s cut through the ribbon-cutting speeches and

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  •   When Shelter Becomes Another Form of Neglect – Denver’s Homeless Deserve Better Than Infested Housing Denver’s political leadership loves to pat itself on the back for “moving people indoors.” The mayor holds press conferences about “compassion” and “progress,” Council members tout the millions poured into housing initiatives, and developers rake in contracts to slap

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  •     By now, the social media flood of nostalgia has you convinced that if Pete’s Kitchen folds, Denver’s soul will crumble. A reader recently wrote to me about an article they saw regarding Pete’s Kitchen and the BRT. Chuck writes: “Every time a Denver institution sneezes, people act like the city’s cultural lungs are

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  • Thirty-seven-year-old Thomas Allen McCartney, of Leesville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted first-degree rape of a child under the age of 13. As part of the plea deal, McCartney agreed to serve 40 years in state prison, according to the Vernon Parish District Attorney’s Office. He also agreed to be chemically castrated. How many of you

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  •   It’s almost poetic. For decades, Republicans pretended to loathe the “elite coastal billionaires.” Now their future hinges on one of the richest, most coastal, most elite billionaires alive—the same man who could, at any moment, decide he’d rather fund flamethrowers, Mars colonies, a new third party or Dogecoin. Poor JD Vance. Once upon a

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  •   The Democratic and Republican parties love to pretend that they are mortal enemies, but in truth they are an old married couple. They bicker in public, sulk in private, and yet cling to each other because they know no one else would ever put up with them. Americans, meanwhile, are the unhappy kids stuck

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