Rally withstands last-minute change of venue, as Republicans uproot Kerry’s Colorado digs By Leigh E. Rich As with the cheeseburger, passions were stirred last Friday regarding the Colorado origin of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. While Kerry’s running mate John Edwards proudly boasted the Rocky Mountain state as “the birthplace of the cheeseburger, the birthplace […]
07.30.2004
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07.23.2004
Colorado branded a player in the 2004 Democratic National Convention By Leigh E. Rich [Text coming.] Rich, L. E. (2004, July 23). A lot of bull but no cow town: Colorado branded player in 2004 Democratic National Convention. The Colorado Statesman, pp. 1, 6–7, 11–12.
07.23.2004
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Technology and the 2004 Democratic National Convention By Leigh E. Rich Much has changed in the realm of the political convention. They haven’t always been the minute-by-minute scripted production and party they’ve metamorphosed into since the late 1970s and early 1980s, says Polly Baca, a longtime convention attendee and a former member of the Colorado […]
07.09.2004
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Authors allege ‘smoking gun’ with tobacco industry report By Leigh E. Rich The ruckus created by the recent release of an American Lung Association of Colorado report detailing the tobacco industry’s political activities in the state since the 1980s gives new meaning to the quip about laws and sausages. But tobacco control advocates, including report […]
01.30.2004
‘Naked Crowd’ asks price of shedding liberties By Leigh E. Rich The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age By Jeffrey Rosen Random House January 2004 288 pages 24.95 Our greatest fear just might be fear itself—especially with the din of pleas for heightened security in our post-September 11 world. But while […]
10.30.2002
Media not alone in childish behavior By Leigh E. Rich We apparently all have our price. But in light of recent events in the Washington, D.C. area and with midterm elections just around the corner, we must ask what exactly the media’s role—and responsibility—is in this, our complex, multi-issued corner of the world. Let’s face […]
09.11.2002
Categories: Editorials, Media, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Today, ‘This Week,’ this year
On the anniversary of Sept. 11 By Leigh E. Rich My week, I must admit, starts with David Brinkley. Well, it used to. For some time now, the ABC Sunday morning program This Week has been hosted instead by Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. But as of Sunday, they too—this dynamic duo—will turn in their […]
08.20.2002
Apparently, it is whether you win or lose By Leigh E. Rich Apparently, it is whether you win or lose and not how you play the game. True, I usually am a cynic—an optimistic gloomy Gus, as it were—but what should have been a nondescript 2002 has proven my pessimism with a capital “P.” And […]
04.19.2002
Categories: Books, People, Politics, Religion, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on A timely tale of revenge
Giving peace a chance By Leigh E. Rich Kalandia, West Bank. “‘That’s him,’ the woman said, pointing over her grandchildren’s heads. I followed her finger to the wall, to the shooter’s photograph, saw his face for the first time, and sank into the couch. ‘He tried to kill someone,’ she said in an easy voice. […]
