Tag: Inclusion
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Federal judge moderated DEI panel days before hearing arguments in Colorado DEI case
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A judge on the federal appeals court based in Denver oversaw a panel discussion last year about the future of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace while he had a case pending before him on the same subject. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit dismissed the employment discrimination…
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EDITORIAL: Council forces inclusion into exclusive resolution
The Gazette editorial board crusades against needless division. That’s why we wrote, in March of 2022, that “public libraries are not special interest bookstores. We need them to stand as objective archives without political agendas — left or right — forced by activists in management.” Then-Pikes Peak Library District Director John Spears had spent six…
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Phamaly, ‘Spring Awakening’ and boundaries of disability and stage intimacy
It takes some real soul-searching and courage for any theater company to stage “Spring Awakening.” The raucous, rocking, revolutionary 2006 Broadway musical is an adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s tragic 1891 banned novel about hormonally charged German teens discovering the often frightening urges of adolescence that no adults in their strict religious community will simply explain…