Vince Bzdek

1 week ago | denvergazette.com | Vince Bzdek

By his own admission, Bo Peretto was an odd kid. “I had my own business in third grade,” Peretto told me in an interview. “Back then we sold whatever we could on the playground to make money. I had my briefcase and everything. Like I said, weird kid.”His third-grade teacher saw that he was interested in business and suggested he profile a successful business person and write a letter to him. Bo went to the library to find out all about Denver cable television magnate Bill Daniels.

2 weeks ago | gazette.com | Vince Bzdek

Two headlines in The Wall Street Journal last week brought home how small the world has become. “The Intifada comes to Boulder,” read one. “Ukraine’s drone strike is a warning — for the U.S.,” read the other. The first referred to how the Palestinian uprising against Israel suddenly landed in our backyard last Sunday when a man shouted “Free Palestine!” and hurled Molotov cocktails at Jewish demonstrators in Boulder, injuring 15 people he said he fully intended to kill.

2 weeks ago | denvergazette.com | Vince Bzdek

Two headlines in The Wall Street Journal last week brought home how small the world has become. “The Intifada comes to Boulder,” read one. “Ukraine’s drone strike is a warning — for the U.S.,” read the other. The first referred to how the Palestinian uprising against Israel suddenly landed in our backyard last Sunday when a man shouted “Free Palestine!” and hurled Molotov cocktails at Jewish demonstrators in Boulder, injuring 15 people he said he fully intended to kill.

3 weeks ago | gazette.com | Vince Bzdek

"Cowboy up.”It’s a phrase uttered often in the wide opens of Colorado. “Walk it off.” “Tough it out.” “Strap your boots back on and get ‘er done.”It’s the Cowboy Code, and out in mountain towns like Durango, that code still hangs in the air like an old ghost from the wild West. Ranchers and farmers live it, mountain bikers and extreme skiers embody it, even shopkeepers trying to hang on for dear life embrace it.

1 month ago | gazette.com | Vince Bzdek

In his 99 years on the planet, Ken Akune has been sorted into many bins. The first was Nisei, the term for second-generation Japanese Americans born in the United States. Akune had lived in both the United States and Japan and his family was divided between the two.