Author: Vince Bzdek
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One of the world’s most powerful, secretive companies calls Colorado home | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” a Palantir is a seeing stone used to watch over faraway places and communicate great distances. Users had to “possess great strength of will and of mind”…
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Eighty years ago this week, a flock of flyboys saved the world | Vince Bzdek
The flyboys were in the air as long as 17 hours on the night bombing raids from the Mariana Islands to Tokyo. Round trip was approximately 3,000 miles. Along the way the crews — average age 22 — faced Japanese Zeros, anti-aircraft fire, mechanical issues, air sickness, high winds and turbulence. “The Japanese fire from the…
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DoBetterDNVR dustup shows the pitfalls and promise of citizen journalism | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A high-profile experiment in citizen journalism is playing out in Denver right now, triggering animated argument on X and Instagram and at least one prominent podcast, as well as prompting an effort by a local media outlet to identify who is behind the anonymous posts.…
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How deep is Colorado’s rural-urban divide? 10 takeaways from the Rural Reckoning series | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save How bad is the rural/urban divide in Colorado? That’s what a team of reporters at Colorado Politics and The Colorado Network, our statewide collective of freelancers, set out to measure and understand. Through extensive interviews, data analysis and community voices, our journalists have documented the…
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Panel on challenges to journalism shows the question is more important than the answer | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A recent panel discussion on the many challenges journalism faces at the moment demonstrated the value of a good question. We five journalists on the panel weren’t able to answer all the questions posed to…
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Vince Bzdek: The distinct personalities and pull of Colorado’s many mountain ranges
It’s summertime, and the lucky among us are off cavorting in one of Colorado’s majestic mountain ranges. For those of you still trying to decide which range to ramble off to as the July Fourth holiday arrives, here’s a quick comparison of the different merits and moods of each of our major ranges. This is…
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They believed in America when America did not believe in them | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In his 99 years on the planet, Ken Akune has been sorted into many bins. The first was Nisei, the term for second-generation Japanese Americans born in the United States. Akune had lived in both the United States and Japan and his family was divided…
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Al Simpson was one of the giants of politics | Vince Bzdek
This is a story about walking with a giant. In contrast to the smallness of today’s politics, Sen. Al Simpson of Wyoming was a giant. Both physically — at 6 feet, 7 inches, he was the tallest member of the Senate in his day — and in largeness of spirit. “He was a free spirit with how…