eric sondermann
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A bit of positive thinking for the holidays | SONDERMANN
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These days, some out-and-out positivity is perhaps out of character for me. I tend to view our politics and the world more broadly with considerable alarm. My morning routine most often consists of reading for a solid 60 or 90 minutes, all online, all news and commentary from a variety of publications. As this period…
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Julie Gonzales’s long but not impossible odds | SONDERMANN
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Allow me to start with a flashback. It was Thanksgiving 2024, just over 12 months back. For the first time, our son Clarke hosted the family Thanksgiving near New York City. It is a sign of our aging when the kids start to step into the role of host and convenor. The occasion was lovely.…
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Dear Abby: A better answer to your question | SONDERMANN
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It was the beginning of October. I had been invited to speak to a class on political journalism at Colorado College, my old alma mater. The class was taught by none other than Vince Bzdek, the editor-in-chief of this paper and its sister publications. This was a relatively small seminar of perhaps a dozen undergraduate…
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The Colorado Lottery’s mega-bad idea | Sondermann
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There are plenty of lousy, miserable, misguided whims out there. Then, every so often, you come across a notion so wrong-headed that it qualifies as phenomenally bad. Or, in words the marketing whizzes at the Colorado Lottery might understand, let’s call this a mega-bad idea. The proposal in question, recently adopted by the Lottery Commission,…
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Mid-decade redistricting and the race to the bottom | SONDERMANN
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Per Merriam-Webster, one of the definitions of the word “politics” is, “The total complex of relations between people living in society.” Otherwise put, politics, when managed correctly, constitutes the organization of society for maximum peace, tranquility, prosperity and thriving. It is the art of how disparate people get along. Of course, the practice of politics…
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COLUMN: Significance of Democratic triumph still unknown
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Excuse the truism, but winning sure beats losing. Rarely has a political party needed a victory as badly as Democrats did in the off-year elections two weeks ago. Theirs was a party in despair, struggling to come to terms with how they were so thoroughly routed by Donald Trump and his partisans last November and…
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Please spare us your obvious pronouns | SONDERMANN
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Oct. 15 is almost upon us. Can you feel the excitement? No, that is not Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, as some states call it, or Cabrini Day, as it is known in Colorado. That all takes place earlier in the week on Monday. Federal workers will have the day off – oh, never…
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How does this fever break? | SONDERMANN
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We have seen this play too many times and with increasing frequency. A news alert pops up or a text appears from a friend with a report of some new, shocking, horrific act of political violence. We then dial up our favorite news sources or jump on social media in search of what happened and…
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Restore conservatism by rejecting Trump | SONDERMANN
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It was not all that long ago that the Republican Party stood for the rule of law and defended America’s most cherished institutions. The Grand Old Party, or even earlier the Gallant Old Party, could be counted on to support free trade, assert America’s preeminent role as a world power and at least give lip…
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Federico Peña and the ‘great city’ he ‘imagined’ 40 years later | SONDERMANN
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Those of more recent vintage in these parts may well know Federico Peña as the namesake of the often-congested boulevard they travel to and from Denver International Airport. Though for those of us who have been around here a bit, we know Peña as the swashbuckling, young state legislator who took Denver by storm in…
