Author: LYNN BARTELS
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BARTELS | The news on North: Still a school on the rise
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When I moved to Denver’s northside more than 20 years ago, parents who lived in the neighborhood didn’t seem that excited about sending their kids to North High School, but all that has changed. North…
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LYNN BARTELS | In political coverage, it’s all about the people
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Part of the joy of covering politics is getting to know politicians as elected officials but also as people who have families and lives outside the buildings they work in. I was thinking of that as I drove to Colorado Springs recently for a reception…
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LYNN BARTELS | Living life is apt to age a person
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Lynn Bartels Every now and then I see something on Facebook that blows my mind. This time the post was courtesy of Joan Fitz-Gerald, the first woman president of the Colorado Senate. “Leaving our wedding reception 47 years ago today,” she wrote on July 22,…
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LYNN BARTELS | Picking a party is a weighty decision
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At various times in my life I’ve been a Democrat, a Republican or an unaffiliated voter. I would register, move on and not think about it, sometimes for years. Lynn Bartels But in recent months I’ve really struggled with party politics. I’ve talked about my…
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LYNN BARTELS | Don’t count Hick out just yet
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I felt like the only reporter who didn’t know John Hickenlooper when he decided to run for Denver mayor in 2003. Sure, I had gone to his Wynkoop Brewing Co., but to indulge in that famous artichoke dip and bread, not the craft beer. I…
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LYNN BARTELS | How I got hooked on ‘Breaking Bad’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I once asked my sister Jeanne, who lives in Albuquerque, what she thought of “Breaking Bad.” Lynn Bartels “I watched a couple of episodes but, frankly, we live it every day, so I quit watching,” she said. The Duke City has it share of crime…
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LYNN BARTELS | Changes in climate are constant in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Years ago, when my parents were visiting me in north Denver, it rained for two straight days, a slow rain that never let up. Lynn Bartels It was May and I had taken time off because I thought I’d get some yard work done during…
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LYNN BARTELS | 46 years later, Roe v. Wade debate still rages
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Years ago, while on assignment in Albuquerque, N.M., I met a woman who casually asked during lunch one day, “Why isn’t your generation up in arms over attempts to make abortion illegal?” She admitted undergoing three backroom abortions, including one that nearly killed her. The…