Author: Paula Noonan
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Choice alone not the answer for Colorado’s education inequities | NOONAN
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Autumn is always welcome. The heat drops but it’s still warm; trees brighten but the leaves hold; tomatoes redden and late garden greens come up. In odd years like 2025, fall also means school board elections which have turned into brawls in certain parts of the state. Denver Public Schools’ board elections are always contentious.…
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What does it mean to be a man, and to be a woman, today? | NOONAN
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Richard Reeves, a Brit expert on masculinity, investigates what it means to be a man today. He is commenting on the number of men under 40 who are scrambling to find their masculinity and humanity in the face of women’s advances into the world of work and home. American opinion writers have weighed in on…
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A special session to settle on a ‘secret sauce’ for statewide AI regulation | NOONAN
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The biggest muddle at the Capitol during the “extraordinary session” of the General Assembly was not money, that is, the $750 million blowhole in the state’s budget due, more or less, to the nation’s federal tax cuts. It was what to do with artificial intelligence, or AI. The muddle doesn’t affect AI’s mundane uses, such…
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Wily weeds win the day in Dougco due to callous commishes | NOONAN
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One of the most important responsibilities of government at every level is to deliver trustworthy decisions. Leave it to today’s Douglas County commissioners, the men who lost 70% to 30% in their attempt to transform Douglas County into a home-rule county, to once again make opaque decisions, ignoring pressing needs in the county. In an…
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Feckless leaders make outrageous decisions | NOONAN
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Paula Noonan We are now 80 years plus one day beyond Hiroshima and 80 years minus two days from Nagasaki, the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” atomic bombs that killed more than 300,000 people within an instant to a year. We are roughly 80 years plus three months from the 200,000 killed in Berlin over…
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Colorado education destined for dust heap down Polis’ ‘roadmap’ to success | NOONAN
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Paula Noonan “Let’s Get Ready!” This is the headline for Gov. Jared Polis’ roadmap for governors across the nation to prepare kids — not for life, exactly, but for college and work. “Success” is the ultimate goal. “Success” means community well-being and U.S. economic competitiveness with education as the basis for this achievement. The governor’s roadmap…
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Deep dives on the records of gubernatorial front-runners Bennet, Weiser | NOONAN
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Paula Noonan The Democratic races in the state primaries in June of 2026 will decide the elections for most statewide offices. The top competition is between current Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. There’s no time like the present to begin the analysis of who has the most promising record for…
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Trump cuts take toll on Colorado schoolkids | NOONAN
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Paula Noonan Trump’s goop has hit the fan and educators and students will feel the spray. The Trump administration is withholding $80 million from Colorado’s school districts. The withholdings affect important programs helping non-English-speaking students. That’s not a surprise. The lost dollars also impact teacher professional development and projects supporting students with disabilities. Let’s examine…
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Past time for religious leaders to publicly protest Trump’s immigration abomination | NOONAN
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Paula Noonan In 1847, 116 Baptist ministers from the Boston area signed an anti-slavery manifesto. It was a 5-foot-long handwritten scroll titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery” recently rediscovered at the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts archive. Jennifer Cromack, a volunteer historian for the archive, says the long-lost document “offers a glimpse into the…
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Trump throws executive orders at constitutional wall, consequences be damned | NOONAN
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Paula Noonan The Trump administration is giving us an advanced placement class in United States civics on the fly. We’re learning about the true power and authority of the executive, the limited power and authority of the judiciary except for the Supreme Court, the ignominy of Congress’s failure to stop President Donald Trump’s usurpations, and…
