Author: HUGH JOHNSON

The investigation into the death of University of Colorado student Eric Chase Bolling, the son of former Fox News personality Eric Bolling, could take weeks as investigators await the results of toxicology tests. Eric Chase Bolling, 19, died Friday night at an apartment near the 28th Street Frontage Road and Village Drive in Boulder, the…

When we learned that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would visit Colorado as part of her “Rethink School” tour this week, we began brainstorming all the places she could go. The Douglas County School District would seem a good fit, with its large roster of charter schools and ongoing legal efforts to get a private…

It was a distinction that, quite frankly, our community could have done without. A few days ago, we learned that the United States Postal Services Sunset Station on Pueblo’s South Side has reported more dog attacks so far this year than any other station in Colorado or Wyoming. In fact, the ratio of postal carriers…

The sight of 12 Cleveland Browns football players kneeling in a prayer circle during the national anthem before an exhibition game last month did not sit well with many in the national television audience. Some veterans took it as an insult. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill, a Vietnam War veteran and longtime Browns fan,…

Manitou Springs might enact a policy to keep residents’ trash cans upright and local bears out of them, forcing the bruins to munch instead on nuts, berries and other natural fare. The City Council asked the staff at a Sept. 5 meeting to draft a “Bear Smart” ordinance that likely would require residents to keep…

During his surprisingly successful bid for the presidency, Donald Trump famously sought out rural America and American farmers, and for good reasons beyond politics. For years, farmers in Colorado and other states have struggled against falling prices, global competition and a drain of talent as millennials leave the family business to boomer parents, or sell…

Unlike most of the nation, the San Francisco Bay Area’s biggest problem right now is not from right-wing provocateurs, it’s from anarchist hoodlums. Most people here recognize how despicable and dangerous the ultra-right-wing, white supremacist, neo-Nazi movement is. We deplore President Trump’s false equivalency that those who protest the bigotry are equally culpable. As we…

In evaluating the ongoing transformation of the nation’s electricity grid, the U.S. Department of Energy got the analysis right and the conclusions wrong – offering another example of the conflict between facts and desires in the Trump administration. The study released last week was commissioned by Energy Secretary Rick Perry in April, and it was…

Despite a Texas law against “price gouging,” prices soared for people trying to endure or escape Hurricane Harvey. “One station sold gas for a whopping $20 a gallon,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday. “A hotel reportedly charged guests more than twice the normal rate. One business sold bottles of water for a staggering $99 per…

The University of California-Berkeley, with a reputation for increasingly violent activism, wants to be more like the University of Colorado. CU hasn’t endured a headline-worthy riot in 20 years. University of Colorado President Bruce Benson spoke Saturday about Berkeley’s flattering imitation, before presenting an award at the Steamboat Institute’s ninth annual Freedom Conference & Festival…