The board of directors of Aspen Journalism and I have been reflecting for days now on the recent passing of George Stranahan. Many of us worked with George for years, even decades, on various projects…
The eighth annual Aspen Words Youth Poetry Slam went virtual this spring, capping an expanded poets-in-schools project that ran for more than three months for young people in the Roaring Fork Valley.
“Poets are often at the forefront of revolution,” Aspen Words poetry project coordinator Ellie Scott said in her introduction to the live virtual April 29 slam, “illuminating the dark places in ourselves and in our systems.”
That proved true among this year’s bold crop of young local poets who, after a tumultuous year of societal upheaval, underscored how they are the tip of the spear of progressive thought and action here in Colorado and across the U.S.
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back, they will be more polarized than they were before, a democratic party were the liberals i do not think the voters will like gridlock for very long. i do not see this so much as a rejection of 2008, but 2010 is an affirmation of will be sold in 2008. people want change and it is not working for them. they want something new and different. i think that is not happen. the new and different that they are of voting against this time as the new and different they have seen for the last two years. getting direction from the public, and which would want us to go. and the best communication the best way is the question on more trusts or less trust in government than you did two years ago. by a 62-32 margin, they trust the government less than two years ago. what the numbers we saw in the 2008 campaign, we want to see the government do more. now they are saying they want government to do less. they are doing too much. they are too involved. and the president himself final