Author: LYNN BARTELS
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BARTELS | The pains of pandemic are just as hard for the Class of 2021
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Oh, how we wept for the Class of 2020, whose proms and track meets and high school graduations were canceled or delayed because of the coronavirus. But it turns out we should have saved our…
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BARTELS | With George Floyd’s death, memories of the long struggle for justice
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two decades ago, in a basement hearing room at the state Capitol, a rookie lawmaker struggled to compose himself as he fought to keep a House committee from watering down and delaying his bill on…
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BARTELS | A health care odyssey takes us back to where it all began
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Talk about full circle. I’m going to get my second vaccination today, April 20, at the same South Dakota hospital where I was born almost 64 years ago. Moderna II, here I come, although the…
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BARTELS | Author! Author! Deaths of Cleary, McMurtry strike a chord
Two of America’s most-loved authors, Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry, died on the same day, leaving holes in the hearts of Americans who loved irascible Ramona Quimby and retired Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. We read Cleary’s books when we were children, embracing “Beezus and Ramona” and “Henry Huggins.” McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book,…
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BARTELS | On March 20, it wasn’t just meat on the menu
Meat, mascara and Moderna — March 20 was certainly a red-letter day in the life of Lynn Bartels. Yes, on the same day that Gov. Jared Polis asked his subjects to participate in a “MeatOut Day” to “educate consumers about the benefits of a healthful, plant-based diet,” I joined plenty of other Coloradans in consuming meat.…
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BARTELS | In 2020, only the memories are merry and bright
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I love Christmas but I’m struggling to find the right words to explain the magic, probably because I’m binge-watching “Orange is the New Black.” The language in the TV show about a women’s prison parallels…
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BARTELS | Colorado Gives Day inspires kindness statewide
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If ever there was a year to give, this jobs-lost, restaurants-closed, hospitals-overwhelmed kind of a year is the one. ”I don’t know how much worse my situation can get,” a neighbor recently wrote on Nextdoor.…
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BARTELS | Buckle down, GOP lawmakers: wear a mask and focus on real issues
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Republicans, I want you to get stronger, to get well, to take on Colorado Democrats as equals and not as some gutted minority party, but on the opening day of the special session what happened?…
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The O.J. Simpson verdict and coming to terms with my white privilege | BARTELS
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Twenty-five years ago, the nation sat glued to its TV set to await the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial. The jury had come in so quickly and the evidence was so overwhelming that some legal commentators speculated the Black football star would be found…
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BARTELS | September confessions of a political junkie
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I’m a political junkie but even I can barely stand to open my e-mail or text messages these days. BREAKING FROM CNN: McGrath is KEY to flipping the Senate in 2020!! It’s Meaghan w/ the Colorado Democrats. With only 43 days left until Election Day,…