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Columns

  • Bruised feathers for the right wing

        It’s been a tough couple of weeks for conservatives.
        A decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to drop funding for Planned Parenthood left the organization reeling, then backpedaling so fast that failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate, pro-life activist and Komen Vice President Karen Handel was bucked right off the pink ribbon express.

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  • Diabetes and Obesity: A Fight We Can Win

    Chet Spinner
    Contributing writer
    Recently, I tried to quit smoking. I put on 50 pounds, and then I decided to smoke again. I just am superficial about my appearance. But, that leaves the extra weight I put on. My doctor suggested that I see a nutritionist because I’m a Type 2 diabetic. What I discovered was fascinating.

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  • God brings comfort in turbulent times, weather

    Perry Wm. Bell
         All this cold and snow makes me dream of summer, and reading this text, I remember a canoe trip I took with a bunch of kids on the Yellowstone River.  Spending an entire week on the river, packing out with tents and food and no cell phones, we had an incredible time putting paddle to the river. Seventeen of us enjoying the beauty of God’s incredible creation.

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  • Time to bury the past

         Revisiting one of the city’s more sordid chapters, a Denver television station recently dug up yet another story on former funeral home owner and Fort Lupton Mayor Jim Bostick.

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  • Just My Imagination? No Way!

    Perry Wm. Bell
        This morning at our community Bible study at a local restaurant, we began talking about a billboard in Boulder (the Republic of) that stated that “God is just a figment of our imagination.”
        My first response was “Whatever” but then I began thinking about all the people that will read that sign, and how many people will be turned away by it. I also wonder how many Christians, if only for a fleeting moment, will think, hmm, what if?

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  • Our own worst enemies

        I think there’s some irony in the hydraulic fracturing debate going on in Commerce City.
        For those not keeping tabs on this issue, residents have voiced their concerns over what chemicals are being pumped into the ground as part of the hydraulic fracturing process and the impact those chemicals may have on the environment, especially groundwater.

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  • Better than OK

    Perry Bell
        Sometimes we view grace and truth as opposite sides of the spectrum rather than as two sides to the same coin.

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  • Divorce delay bill still has merit

        Ah, the agony of a weekly newspaper.
        Stories often come to life and die all in the bookends of a week.
        That was certainly the case for one state legislator’s controversial bill that would have institute a so-called “cooling-off” period for parents considering divorce.

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  • Guilt by accusation

         Accusations are powerful. The most powerful of those are sexual assault allegations, and for someone in a position of responsibility or trust, allegations involving children are by far the most devastating. Case in point: former Fort Lupton track coach and teacher Ray Brown. Brought up on charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust as a pattern of abuse, Brown found himself in the court of public opinion from day one, over a full year before his actual day in court.

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  • Take this phone away before somebody gets hurt

        The first key to getting help is admitting you have a problem.
        So, last week’s’ recommendation from the National Transportation Safety Board of an all-out ban on the use of mobile devices in cars is a really good place to start.
        I’m Kevin and I’m addicted to using my cell phone in my car.

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