Author: Vince Bzdek
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ZOOM EVENT | Is it safe out there yet? Town hall to address questions about vaccines, herd immunity
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Is it safe? After a year worrying about that question rather intensely, we’re getting ever closer to an affirmative answer. But our rapid mobilization on vaccines – and simultaneous reopening of schools, restaurants and workplaces – is a complex dance, raising a blizzard of fresh questions as we zero in on answering that primary one. And now…
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Is it safe out there yet? Town hall to address questions about vaccines, herd immunity | Vince Bzdek
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Is it safe? After a year worrying about that question rather intensely, we’re getting closer and closer, and closer to an affirmative answer. But our rapid mobilization on vaccines – and simultaneous reopening of schools, restaurants and workplaces – is a complex dance, raising a blizzard of fresh questions as we zero in on answering that primary…
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COMMENTARY | Shooting the messenger: Journalists have now become targets during the protests | Vince Bzdek
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The messenger was literally shot last week. Hyoung Chang has photographed in Iraq and Afghanistan while reporting on the wars there, but he told me he was more uncomfortable on the streets of Denver in recent days. A policeman shot the 23-year Denver Post veteran with a pepper ball right in the press badge hanging…
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BZDEK | The best weapon against coronavirus? Freedom of information
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Vince Bzdek Information and viruses have a pretty interesting kinship. Information can go viral just like a virus, meaning it can spread rapidly and widely from one user to another. And computer viruses can bring down the whole information infrastructure, just the way the coronavirus is pretty much bringing down – temporarily – the whole human infrastructure.…
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Olympic Museum has a special mission: Beacon to the disabled
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Imagine, for a moment, you are the parent of a child who has suddenly been injured in a skiing accident. Imagine, then, it gets worse. The resulting infection is so severe, doctors say the leg must be amputated. After the surgeries, hospitals and tears, and the shock and horror of a new prosthetic leg, what…
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VINCE BZDEK | Gazette-CoPo debate takes up TABOR, Proposition CC
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Love him or hate him, Doug Bruce is a Colorado Springs original. Since he wrote the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 1992, Bruce has been its biggest defender and advocate. He’s fought for it while serving on the El Paso County Board of Commissioners and in the state House of Representatives. He continued to fight…
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VINCE BZDEK | John Ensslin, journalism’s last true gentleman
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I’ve always liked the word gentleman, a noun with an aspirational adjective embedded in it. “He was such a gentle man.” What better quality is there for us rough-edged males to aspire to: in all things, seek gentility, and if you can, make a little more gentle the life of this world. It’s an old-fashioned…
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VINCE BZDEK | Michael Bennet touts the Rocky Mountain Way in Iowa (VIDEO)
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INDIANOLA, Iowa ? It’s summer in Iowa before an election year, and that means the countryside is lousy with corn and candidates. I was there last weekend, and, incurable political junkie that I am, I thought I’d try to catch a bit of history and see one of Colorado’s two presidential hopefuls in action on…
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Veteran reporter Osher to lead investigative team for CoPo, Gazette from Denver
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After 156 women athletes came forward to say they were abused by Dr. Larry Nassar, Michigan Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis singled out for praise three people who started the reckoning with the disgraced doctor’s two decades of sexual abuse. She didn’t credit the hundreds of people who work at USA Gymnastics or the Colorado…
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COMMENTARY | This is a moment to celebrate Western orneriness
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The New York Times on Jan. 10 ran a headline that said, “Colorado’s got a gay governor. Who cares?” The writer’s point was that Jared Polis’ sexual orientation was a nonfactor in the governor’s campaign and election, accepted in our state as a matter of unremarkable course. That Polis is gay was “interestingly uninteresting to…

