Author: By Bob Loevy
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LOEVY | Political wave-watching in Colorado
Now is the time for folks who follow Colorado politics to start working on their political wave-watching. According to Colorado and national news media, a big red wave is rising far out in the political ocean that will hit the electoral beach in Colorado, and the entire United States, next November. Red wave? That is…
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LOEVY | Colorado’s need for racially-integrated housing
The problem of racial segregation in housing has been an enduring one in the United States. Particularly in older metropolitan areas, there are large sections of cities populated with only African American citizens or Hispanic citizens. This residential form of racial segregation has proven highly resistant to reform and, in certain cities, is getting worse.…
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Blows hit slavery, segregation in June | Bob Loevy
The United States recently celebrated Juneteenth, the new national holiday in honor of the freeing of the slaves at the end of the Civil War. Here is something I noticed. If you subtract one letter “e” from Juneteenth, you get Junetenth. And June Tenth is the date that, in 1964, two-thirds of the United States…