My husband, Darrell, was beside himself. What’s up with this? We have a son about to enter the Denver Public Schools and here they are banning employees from travelling to Arizona because of opposition to the new immigration law. He was fuming. Don’t they have more important things to worry about (like higher graduation rates?) He even called KHOW’s Caplis and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Denver Public Schools Takes a Stand
Posted: May 1, 2010 in Barack Obama, Children, Colorado, Education, Health Care, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Parenting, Politics, Random Thoughts, Television, United States of America, WomenTags: Arizona, Barack Obama, Caplis and Silverman, Congress, Craig Silverman, Dan Caplis, Democrat, Denver, Denver Public Schools, Education, Governor, Health Care, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Immigration Reform, KHOW, Republican, Scott McInnis
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Kara’s Tea Party: Am I Missing Something Here?
Posted: April 22, 2010 in Barack Obama, Children, Economy, Facebook, Inspiration, Media, Midlife, News, News and Views, Parenting, Politics, Random Thoughts, Social Networking, Television, United States of America, WomenTags: Barack Obama, Birthers, Connecticut, D.C., Denver, Facebook, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Polish, Politics, Queen Mary, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Tea Party Rally, Washington, World War II
Eddie is one of my very closest friends. We have known each other since we were teenagers and knew of each other even longer. Our fathers were best friends and Polish immigrants who met in London following World War II and came to America on the Queen Mary together. When I lived in Connecticut and Eddie was in New [...]
Health Care Reform and Leadership
Posted: March 22, 2010 in Barack Obama, Colorado, Economy, Health Care, Human Rights, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Politics, Poverty, Random Thoughts, United States of America, WomenTags: Americans, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Glenn Beck, Health Care, Health Care Reform, House of Representatives, Jobs, Leadership, Mid-term Election, President Obama, Reform, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Senate, Tea Party, Vote, Washington
The debate over health care reform is not over. Even with the House vote and significant legislation approved, the merits and process will be hashed and rehashed for years, and certainly, vociferously, until November when mid-term elections decide the fate of many in Congress who went one way or the other. We haven’t heard the last of the Tea Party [...]
Africans on Obama
Posted: July 10, 2009 in Africa, Barack Obama, Global Poverty, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Politics, Travel, WomenTags: Accra, Africa, Barack Obama, Ghana, kampala, Malia Obama, Michelle Obama, President, Sasha Obama, Uganda, United States
NOTE: THIS IS A REPRINT OF A BLOG FROM 11/27/2008 FOLLOWING BARACK OBAMA’S ELECTION. IT STILL RINGS TRUE AS HE PAYS HIS FIRST POST-PRESIDENTIAL VISIT TO ACCRA, GHANA IN WEST AFRICA WITH FIRST LADY MICHELLE AND DAUGHTERS SASHA AND MALIA OBAMA. Our Ugandan driver picked us up from the airport in Entebbe on November 9. We were [...]
New Focus on the Family
Posted: June 13, 2009 in Barack Obama, Business, Colorado, Gay and Lesbian, Human Rights, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Politics, Poverty, Random Thoughts, ReligionTags: Abortion, Barack Obama, Colorado Springs, Denver Post, Dr. James Dobson, Electa Draper, Focus on the Family, Gay Rights, Jim Daly
Time will tell but this sure seems like a refreshing shift at Focus on the Family. Jim Daly, who has risen from a hellish past, replaces Dr. James Dobson at the helm of the conservative Christian organization based in Colorado Springs and vows to be a different kind of leader. Instead of being dogmatic “it’s more about [...]
Trend Setting Iowa
Posted: April 12, 2009 in Barack Obama, Gay and Lesbian, Human Rights, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Politics, ReligionTags: Barack Obama, California, Constitution, Demi Moore, Des Moines, Equal Protection, gay marriage, Hispanics, Iowa, Iowa Supreme Court, Maureen Dowd, New England, New York, New York Times, Proposition 8, same-sex marriage, Storm Lake, Time Magazine
My husband is from Iowa. His parents live in a town of about 10,000 called Storm Lake in the Northwest corner of the state. I’ve been going back and forth for many years. The Iowa I used to see was a conservative, set in its ways kind of place that didn’t really welcome change. But my [...]
Twitter to the Chief
Posted: February 17, 2009 in Barack Obama, Colorado, Economy, Environment, Health Care, Media, News, News and Views, Photography, Politics, Social NetworkingTags: Barack Obama, Blogging, Denver, Economic Crisis, Economic Stimulus Bill, HD Net, Health Care, Joe Biden, Journalism, Mile High City, Museum of Nature and Science, Public Hospitals, Social Networking, Twitter, World Report
President Obama came to Denver today to sign the economic stimulus bill. He chose the Mile High City because it is on the cutting edge of green technologies he believes will take America into the future. I attended because I am producing a story on the impact of the economy on public hospitals. Stimulus dollars are [...]
Patriotism
Posted: January 19, 2009 in Barack Obama, Judaism, Media, News, PoliticsTags: African American, America, Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Edward Jan Collins, Ellis Island, HBO, Holocaust, Inauguration Day, Independence Day, Patriotism, Pete Seeger, President, Presidents Day, This Land Is Your Land
I wish my dad had lived to see this day. Edward Jan Collins was the child of Jewish parents who died in the Holocaust, the brother of siblings scattered by war, the father of children born in America to a better life. As we prepare to inaugurate a new President, our first African American President, he would have been [...]
Africans on Obama
Posted: November 27, 2008 in Africa, Barack Obama, News, Politics, TravelTags: Barack Obama, kampala, Uganda
Our Ugandan driver picked us up from the airport in Entebbe on November 9. We were barely down the road before he asked us who we voted for in the election. He wanted to talk about Barack Obama. He wanted to tell us about the parties all over Kampala on the night Obama was elected. They were [...]
Shelter Dogs
Posted: November 7, 2008 in Barack Obama, Children, Dogs, ParentingTags: Barack Obama, Dogs Rule, Humane Society, Pedigree Adoption Drive, Shelter Dogs
My children and I were at an impasse. Our yellow lab, Rosie, died this summer, and after an appropriate period of mourning and reflection, we decided to get a new dog. Initially I wanted another Shetland Sheepdog. My first dog, Buddy, was a Sheltie and he set the bar for all dogs to come. The [...]
