IN RUINS
Evacuees To Tour Neighborhoods Devastated By Waldo Canyon Fire

Jason Salzman, 06/29/12

Bigmedia.org

Mike Coffman thinks he's being unfairly targeted for his birther comments. As if it's unfair for journalists to simply want to talk to him about it? What's a reporter to do when he will only take questions from conservative talk-radio hosts?

Anneli Rufus, 06/29/12

Comfort-food freak

Mall food has gotten really fancy lately. When I was a kid hanging out with my friends at the mall, eating food like tacos and Orange Julius was a major activity. Things have changed. While food courts are still ubiquitous, some malls have gone luxury-gourmet.

Joel Judd, 06/29/12

Recovering legislator

Denver's Mayor has proposed a four-year suspension of the business personal property tax for new facilities. What the heck does that mean? While new businesses may locate a new facility in Denver, this will end up costing Denver.

Nathaniel Loewentheil, 06/27/12

Student, Yale Law School

Two strands of thought -- romanticism and technological rationality -- run deep in environmentalism and the tensions between them help illuminate many of the countervailing beliefs and strategies that compose the environmental movement today.

Thomas Alter, 06/29/12

Sportswriter, Washington D.C.

The Hornets don't count, because the team that ended up with Anthony Davis was destined to be the clear winner of the draft. With Jared Sullinger, Fab Melo and Kris Joseph, Danny Ainge drafted three accomplished, tough college players who fit roles for Doc Rivers' squad.

Anne Butterfield, 06/29/12

Columnist for the "Boulder Daily Camera"

In tackling Xcel's new Electric Resource Plan (ERP) for Colorado, Clean Energy Action confirmed that future expenses on fuels like coal and natural gas are being discounted, and aggressively so.

Dan Glickman, 06/27/12

Vice President and Exec. Director of the Congressional Program, Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center.

Whatever the reasons, it's refreshing to see that on something, our elected representatives can get along (at least in the Senate) and the system can still work.

Zachary Podmore, 06/26/12

Colorado native, kayaker and environmental blogger

As we take our first steps towards the sea in a landscape almost as wild as it was in J.W. Powell's day, the thrill of the journey ahead, the thin mountain air and the landscape all leave me exhilarated.

Scott Mendelson, 06/27/12

Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

Seth MacFarlane's Ted joins the ranks of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Observe and Report among razor-sharp cultural satires cleverly disguised as dumb comedies.

Miller Hudson, 06/27/12

Public policy consultant

Sitting on our hands and waiting for the jury to return on the effect of greenhouse gasses feels profoundly shortsighted. Whether or not they trigger the widespread warming that is so evidently altering ecosystems, they sure as hell can't be helping.

Dr. Jim Taylor, 06/26/12

Adjunct professor, University of San Francisco

If the fight-or-flight survival instinct, which is so deeply woven into our DNA, no longer fulfills our most basic needs to survive, what new form of survival instinct do we need to evolve to help us to survive in the concrete, metal, and hard-wired world in which we now live?

Barry Bortnick, 06/26/12

Journalist

Jen Pastalo Dacpano and Nicole Severson are on a mission to bring music, song, and community into the hearts and souls of school children across the Front Range.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 06/24/12

Professor, Harvard Business School

To keep America strong and Americans working, opportunity must flow to everyone. Regions with lower unemployment and greater growth prospects break the ice by finding the connections between innovation, collaboration, and education -- a flow of resources to create, attract, and grow jobs.

Jordan Schultz, 06/25/12

The Huffington Post's sports columnist, The Schultz Report

Anthony Davis is the celebrated prize, but this is a draft full of great depth and value, especially in the later stages of the first round.

John Farr, 06/22/12

Editor, bestmoviesbyfarr.com

Today, our most celebrated actress, Meryl Streep, turns 63. Can it be possible? My own top-ten list below reflects what I believe are her best films. On her birthday, let's say: "Bravo, Meryl Streep."

Marshall Fine, 06/21/12

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

Scafaria, who wrote the script for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, says she was pushed to end life on Earth by her experience on that earlier film -- and by the growing media interest in the Mayan calendar's supposed prediction of the world ending in 2012.

Susana Duncan, M.D., 06/23/12

Doctor and Science Editor

The relatively recent epidemic of opium-addiction is now America's fastest growing drug problem. While the consequences of this prescription-driven epidemic may be largely invisible to the general public, it is all too clear to doctors like myself.