Vince Bzdek

4 days ago | gazette.com | Vince Bzdek

At the beginning of “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," the great Czech author Milan Kundera tells the story of a cold, snowy day in Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the height of Communist rule. A man named Clementis stood next to Communist Leader Klement Gottwald on a balcony overlooking a crowd. Because of the cold, Clementis solicitously placed his own cap on Gottwald’s head. Alas, Clementis fell out of favor and was hanged four years later.

1 week ago | gazette.com | Vince Bzdek

You’re a kid out on the playground, imagining you’re in the last few seconds of the biggest game on the planet. You’re on the verge of just being tall enough to curl your wrist over the rim for the first time. You and your friends take turns running from halfcourt to get up enough steam to leap into the air with that mix of athleticism, artistry and in-your-face WHAM required to execute …The Dunk.

1 week ago | gazette.com | Vince Bzdek

They call it the Paradise Paradox. Mountain and rural communities have significantly higher rates of suicide and behavioral health issues compared to the national average, according to Lilian Tenney of the Colorado School for Public Health. And the highest rates of suicide in the country are all in the Rocky Mountain states, earning them the moniker the Suicide Belt.

1 week ago | denvergazette.com | Vince Bzdek

They call it the Paradise Paradox. Mountain and rural communities have significantly higher rates of suicide and behavioral health issues compared to the national average, according to Lilian Tenney of the Colorado School for Public Health. And the highest rates of suicide in the country are all in the Rocky Mountain states, earning them the moniker the Suicide Belt.

2 weeks ago | coloradopolitics.com | Vince Bzdek

Three years ago, Gov. Jared Polis said he was going to get serious about Colorado’s mental health care crisis. He established the Behavioral Health Task Force which then created a brand new state agency, the Behavioral Health Administration, to streamline and improve Colorado’s fragmented mental health care system, promising to bring better care to those who could least afford it.