Month: April 2025

The Colorado legislature is a week out from the end of the 2025 session and is working Wednesday to push bills through committee and the House and Senate floors. Several ongoing policy…

Nettie Pearl Jones, 1984. Photograph by Fern Logan. Fish Tales, first published in 1983, is a novel told in short, vivid vignettes. A woman named Lewis comes of age hardscrabble in early…

By HOLLY RAMER CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools. The ruling came in…

Old cherry orchard, 1994, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. What do we hold fast, what do we let go? The question, like a living being, hovers onstage in The…

A pregnant mare in Douglas County and another horse in Jefferson County will be put down after testing positive this month for equine infectious anemia. The viral disease can cause death as…

All images courtesy of the author. For the past decade, the “Ghost of Reem Island,” as she was referred to in the press, has haunted me. On December 1, 2014, Ala’a al-Hashemi,…

Most of Colorado will be under a Red Flag Warning this afternoon, as the National Weather Service warns record-breaking heat, dry conditions and strong winds may combine to create “critical” fire weather….

The UFO Welcome Center in Bowman, North Carolina, which was destroyed by a fire. Photograph courtesy of Jane Stern. I was fortunate to have traveled America’s blue highways in the golden age…

Two people died in a potentially “gang-affiliated” shooting outside the Foothills Mall in Fort Collins on Saturday, police said. Both victims were shot outside, on a sidewalk between the parking lot and…

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on…