Author: By Eric Sondermann
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Trump’s critics are not the ones suffering from “derangement” | SONDERMANN
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It appears that 63% of Americans, plus or minus, are deranged. Per recent surveys, that is the percentage of fellow citizens who do not approve of President Trump’s performance a year into his second term. In Trump’s world, almost any criticism of the president is ascribed to TDS, short for Trump Derangement Syndrome. No critique…
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The governor and the inmate: Trying to make sense of Polis and Peters | Eric Sondermann
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Amidst the excess of news and outrage competing for our attention, much time and oxygen have been expended in trying to make sense of Jared Polis’s angst-ridden consideration of a sentence reduction for Tina Peters, former county clerk and now an ungrateful guest of the Colorado prison system. For any just emerging from some deep…
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The lie that persists five years later| SONDERMANN
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Some dates require no explanation. September 11. October 7. And to the subject of today’s column, January 6. Mention the calendar number and the images flood to mind, still vivid and raw. The fifth anniversary of that dark, dismal day is now upon us. In some respects, it seems like an eternity has elapsed since…
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Kent Thiry, please pull your checkbook out again | SONDERMANN
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Business and civic leader Kent Thiry is a complex figure. He built Denver-based DaVita to be a behemoth in the world of kidney care and dialysis. Along the way, he was known for some wild, over-the-top gatherings in the name of team-building. Under his leadership, the company paid major sums to settle claims of fraudulent…
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A heavyweight governor’s race without precedent | SONDERMANN
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Ever notice how college football touts a “game of the century” about every other year? Just as I recall at least a half-dozen cases labeled the “trial of the century” in my lifetime. So it goes in the annals of hype. But without exaggeration it can be noted that the Democratic battle to serve as…
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A miserable, horrible, dangerously cynical idea | SONDERMANN
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Avalanche superstar Cale Makar, not one to pass up a strategic advantage, would never be so bold as to suggest that the other team be required to play with broken sticks. Caitlin Clark, her polished exterior barely concealing the fierce competitor within, would not think of proposing that the basket at the opponent’s end of…
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A definition and defense of political moderation | SONDERMANN
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A dozen or more years ago, a media colleague paid me the compliment of calling me “Colorado’s most radical moderate.” Thank you for those words, David Kopel. As both parties have moved toward their extremities and the political noise machine exists on constant overdrive, moderation or centrism often seems endangered qualities. Any Republican not fully,…
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Cruelty as a political feature, not a bug | SONDERMANN
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By most standards and for most Americans, these are times of relative comfort. We live in air-conditioned homes, relax in front of enormous television screens, benefit from innovative medical technology, access obscure information in seconds, and travel across the country or the globe in mere hours, despite scheduling snafus and insufficient legroom. Of course, that…
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Polis eyes off-ramp from his legacy bridge | SONDERMANN
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Those of a vintage will recall “A Bridge Too Far,” “The Bridge at Remagen,” and “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” Somewhat more recently, we have had “The Bridges of Madison County,” “Bridge of Spies,” “Girl on the Bridge,” and “The Lovers on the Bridge.” Thank you, AI, for that list. I have personally seen…
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An abundance of delay and paralysis | SONDERMANN
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Amidst the dismay and recrimination that currently occupy Democrats, an active discussion is taking place around a new theory of governance that has become known by a single word, “abundance.” True, this dialogue is mainly limited to wonky types and policymakers. But it holds the potential to redefine the party around an agenda of opportunity…
