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Newspin: Privacy, partisanship and political punditry

September 2010

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I love my privacy.

In an era with more information coming at each of us in a month than previous generations experienced in a lifetime, we have to be vigilant about our mental and physical personal space. Whereas we began as hunters and foragers, now we expend a similar amount of energy holding things at arms' length.

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NewSpin: Noise Pollution, Tax Solutions and a New Infusion

August 2010


0810_NewSpin_smlIn a knee-jerk decision, Pueblo City Council established a new sound ordinance based on a woman's complaint about a neighbor's garage band practicing nearby. The gist of the ordinance is that, if your neighbors can hear you, it's too loud.

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NewSpin: Closed Case, Cold Comfort

July 2010

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A couple of months ago I wrote about an investigation I'd done on a case in which Betty Joyce Kuykendall ran a stop sign, collided with a car, and that crash led to the death of the male driver in the other car.

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NewSpin: Cesar Chavez Academy

June 2010

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It seemed, while Cesar Chavez Academy and its affiliates remained in the stratosphere -with remarkable results on standardized tests, its administration was untouchable. Though criticized for such unorthodox practices as offering gift cards to new students, and as rumors of test tampering and misogynist treatment of staff bubbled to the surface, it was yet difficult to argue with the academic results Dr. Lawrence Hernandez and company were yielding.

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NewSpin: A Complicated Case

May 2010

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We are a society whose order is built upon laws. Though there certainly is no guarantee of safety and quality of life, we generally can rest assured that the legal system will provide some recourse for victims and appropriate justice for those causing harm.

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Newspin: Privacy, partisanship and political punditry
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