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3 weeks ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
Yo, Ernie! Take a walk. And while you’re at it, take your pal Bert and the whole diverse Sesame Street bunch. Who needs a Ken Burns and all of his documentaries? NOVA? Same thing. Frontline? You want to broadcast “left wing” programming, forget federal funding. At least, that is what President Trump believes of public TV and radio. On May 2nd, Trump signed an executive order defunding NPR and PBS.
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3 weeks ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
More than fifty years ago, author Rachel Carson warned in her epic, “Silent Spring,” about the dangers of pesticides. Farming was producing at then record levels and much of this boom was attributed to the use of pesticides and their ability to kill off insects that would normally have consumed larger shares of a harvest.
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1 month ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
If anyone can confirm that ‘orangutangs are skeptical about changes in their cages,’ or that ‘monkeys stand for honesty,’ a good source in Pueblo, would be Kyle Davis. Davis is the city’s new associate director of marketing at Pueblo’s Zoo, and he has his hands full with a summer schedule that, he says, has something for everyone. “It’s our busiest time of the year,” said the Eagle Pass, Texas, native. “And we want to make sure folks who come,” leave with the most positive experience they can have.
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1 month ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
If there is one thing Maritza Job Giordano knows, she is not a high-risk candidate for kidney cancer. “I did do the genetic testing,” she said in a recent telephone interview. “For me it was negative.” There is irony, a boatload, in fact, in her declaration. And Job knows it oh so well.
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1 month ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
Each night as we sleep, our brain manufactures visual episodes of events that can often and only be described as surreal. As we dream, we witness people, places and moments we know could never be. But every now and then, something witnessed in deep sleep or even fanciful escapism actually becomes reality. Being named as president of a school that bears the name of one’s hometown, leading the school that both built the foundation for a career as it reenforced lifelong values might be such a dream.
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1 month ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
As drivers speed through Pueblo, no doubt many simply read its slogan, ‘Home of Heroes,’ and continue on their way never giving thought to that three-word billing. But in Pueblo, those three words mean a lot. Pueblo, throughout its history, has answered the call. In WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam and in the Gulf Wars, the young men and women of Pueblo have stepped forward. Their patriotism even impressed President Eisenhower when, in 1953, he awarded Puebloan Raymond G. ‘Jerry’ Murphy with the medal.
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1 month ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
When the first puffs of white smoke belched from the newly constructed Sistine Chapel chimney, thousands spread across the expanse of Saint Peter’s Square cheered with delight. A new Pope had been chosen. But their enthusiasm soon coupled with shock—a joyful shock—when it was announced that the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is American-born. One person not shocked was Regis University’s Father Kevin Burke.
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1 month ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
For Pueblo’s Steve Nawrocki, the ‘winter of discontent’ began January 20th, the day a new administration took office. It was just days later that President Trump kept his campaign promise of handing over the job of cutting governmental ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ to mega-billionaire, Elon Musk. Musk took the job and ran with it.
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1 month ago | 
coloradocommunitymedia.com | Ernest Gurulé |Linda Shapley
There is a portal separating Denver North High School from a retirement community minutes away. It is an invisible tunnel that erases time, connecting young and old, while also wiping away decades of division. Credit for the portal is shared by two residents of the Gardens at Saint Elizabeth (GSE), Rick Wohlers and Donna Lucero, along with a revolving group of North High students. Wohlers is a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander, and Lucero is a long-time Denver educator.
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1 month ago | 
lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé
If a visit to Albuquerque is in your plans and you want to get there ‘quickly’, jump on one of the 54 weekly flights out of Denver International Airport. But, as you may have guessed, quickly does not necessarily mean quick. You’ll need to calculate the time it takes getting to DIA. From the southern suburbs, say, Douglas County, add as much as an hour. Budget in TSA’s mandated airport arrival time, gate time and hope everything’s on time. Clock’s still ticking.
