by Barry Fagin | Nov 28, 2011 | Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-1-05} Thanksgiving has come and gone. Most of us had a nice turkey dinner with our families. I doubt, though, that we thought much about what being grateful for living in America really means. My...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 22, 2012 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Printed in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-25-08} Liberals know that everyone else is “dogmatic”. Libertarians and free-market conservatives are blinded by the ideology of laissez-faire capitalism. Social conservatives are slaves to the dogma of fundamentalist...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Dec 17, 2009 | Politics & Law
{This was a post of mine on a Yahoo! Group in August 2009. It was brought to my attention shortly thereafter that it was being passed around by email to others, with the preamble, “I thought this was a very astute posting, worth passing on.” With that...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 21, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2-23-06} Were you at the last D11 Town Meeting? I was. Bet you weren’t. I bet you weren’t because I counted maybe 30 people tops. I know we’re all busy, and not everybody lives in District 11. But an...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 9, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law
There is little dispute that education is a constant crisis issue. Talk to any teacher and they’ll tell you the same nightmare of constant testing and very little learning. Students are not allowed the fail, and if they dare, the blame is on the school or...
