by Staff Writer Published: October 16,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst, USOC
The U.S. Olympic Committee deal ended as it began — in confusion and secrecy. It had been widely assumed that the city would market $31 million in certificates of participation to pay for the deal on Tuesday. A few minutes before Tuesday’s council meeting began, reporters from a variety of media buttonholed councilmembers, asking for comment. Scott [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: October 9,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst
We’ve written a lot about the health care system — how it’s funded, administered and structured; how it becomes more expensive every year; and how unsustainable it might be. We’ve opined, reported and analyzed, but like any complex system it’s hard to understand. You can draw upon your own experience, but few of us would volunteer [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: October 2,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst
Is there a better way of looking at the country than through the centuries-old lenses that have guided politicians for more than 200 years — or, in Colorado’s case, since 1876? Ours is a nation of 50 states. Remember those maps that used to hang in fourth-grade classrooms? Remember memorizing, or trying to remember, the capitals [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: September 25,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst
The “great man” theory of history has few adherents nowadays, except perhaps among men who think they qualify as “great men.” But forgetting for the moment uber-deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, who once said, “Thinking is what we already know that we have not yet begun,” let us now praise two not-so-famous men. Each had long rich lives, each [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: September 18,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst
One of the strangest — and for me, one of the most endearing — characteristics of our confusing time is our affection for antique forms of transportation such as trains and bicycles. In pre-bust California, the giddy voters authorized the state to issue nearly $10 billion in transportation bonds to finance a proposed high-speed rail line [...] [...]
by Staff Writer Published: September 18,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst
Health care reform, or no change? More troops for Afghanistan, or are we getting out while the getting’s good? Sweeping financial re-regulation, or cosmetic changes? A powerfully resurgent economy, or a weak “jobless recovery?” Green energy, or belching smokestacks? A plan to reverse global warming, or business as usual? A peaceful, prosperous, friendly Middle East, or the same chaos and [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: September 4,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst, Opinion
Can they pull it off? Can two canny and accomplished women persuade the always skeptical voters of Colorado Springs to approve a property tax hike and rescue the city from the worst fiscal crisis it has experienced since the 1970s? Will Councilwoman Jan Martin and nonprofit leader Mary Ellen McNally enter the mythic pantheon of female superheroes, [...] [...]
by Mike Boyd Published: August 31,2009
Tags: Correction, Costco, Douglas Bruce, John Hazlehurst
Information in a blog posting by John Hazlehurst titled “Bruce rings bell, media salivates,” which was published on www.csbj.com on Aug. 19 was incorrect. The blog stated that, “It turned out that Mr. Bruce had been tossed off Costco’s property a year before, for the same reason.” Mr. Bruce was not removed from the property during [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: August 28,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst, Politics
Try to remember, last November … when, thanks in part to two unpopular wars and a world financial crisis, Barack Obama swept into office, along with lopsided Democratic congressional majorities. Let’s see, it’s been 10 months since the election, and Obama’s been in office since January, and we’re mad! Mad! Mad! And we’re tired of him, [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: August 14,2009
Tags: John Hazlehurst
The official celebration of the sesquicentennial of the founding of Colorado City during 1859 came and went without much fuss. Thanks to scores of neighborhood volunteers, a monument was erected, ice cream was eaten and the band played on. It was as homey and unpretentious as Colorado City itself, once the sort-of state capital, now the sort-of [...] [...]
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