A year ago today, I had just practiced my TEDxMileHigh talk to an all-but empty Ellie Caulkins Opera House the day before the big show.
There was a producer in the front row, typing away on her laptop, and, in the far reaches of the gallery, my daughters, ages 9 and 6, with my wife, who…
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler announced this morning that he's pursuing the death penalty for alleged (I use this word loosely) Aurora theater mass murderer James Holmes.
Holmes's attorneys had agreed to a plea deal in which he would spend life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Life without parole essentially ends your life from…
The alleged, though really no-longer alleged, Aurora theater shooter's apartment building was a busy place today, hours after James Holmes shot 71 people, killing 12 as of this posting. Another five are in critical condition at University of Colorado Hospital.
I put "siege" in quotation marks because Holmes is in custody, and will, in all likelihood,…
17th Avenue, my cycling route blocked by a madman's booby-trapped apartment (Stephen Mitchell/Denver Post)
I was planning on riding my bike over to University of Colorado Hospital this afternoon, but a three square block area through which I normally pedal has been cordoned off. You see, James Holmes, 24, the alleged Dark Night murderer -- who…
It took a week or so, but the stories linking U.S. extreme weather to climate change have started to roll out. A few links courtesy of the the Society of Environmental Journalists:
SCIENTISTS: ONGOING WEATHER EXTREMES OFFER PROOF OF CLIMATE CHANGE - "The bizarre weather of early summer in the US – from heatwave, wildfires, drought to…