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Red-light camera deal rejected Councilman leads charge against plan, seeks longer yellow signals

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Rudy Helmuth prepares to lead Cash, a Budweiser Clydesdale, to the Colorado state Capitol to celebrate the beginning of fullstrength beer sales at grocery stores in Colorado.

SPHOTOS BY SHANNA FORTIER

Clydesdales help usher in new beer laws As 2019 begins, grocery and convenience stores can sell full-strength brews

BY SHANNA FORTIER SFORTIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales visited the Colorado Capitol on Dec. 31 to celebrate the repeal, effective New Year’s Day, of laws that prevented sales of beer greater than 3.2 percent alcohol by weight in most Colorado grocery and convenience stores.

“We’re happy to celebrate this day with Coloradans while the state embraces modern beer laws that will help the Centennial State’s vibrant beer industry continue to prosper,” said Greg Sollazzo, Anheuser-Busch regional vice president.

Not everyone was celebrating, though. Some owners of local liquor stores are concerned about taking a possible hit to their sales this year.

The change is due to Senate Bill 16-197, passed in 2016, which eliminates the two tiers for sales and SEE BEER, P4

Scott Morrison and Rudy Helmuth, Clydesdale handlers for the Budweiser Clydesdales, brave the snowy New Year’s Eve Day with horses Cash and Sparky to mark the end of Prohibition-era beer laws in Colorado.

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Following a messy selection process and a clumsily written contract, the Denver City Council unanimously rejected an agreement Jan. 2 that would have expanded the city’s fleet of red-light cameras.

The Denver Police Department and Denver Public Works planned to spend the $1.2 million on electronic traffic enforcement, including new red-light cameras at 13th Avenue and Lincoln Street and 18th Avenue and Lincoln. The move aligns with the city’s Vision Zero plan to end traffic deaths by 2030.

But City Councilman Kevin Flynn aimed to kill the contract, partly because the document was written with the wrong intersections and partly because Flynn is against the concept of the traffic tech, and believes longer yellow lights will do the trick.

DPD and DPW don’t disagree. Representatives from both departments visited with Flynn earlier in the day and said they picked intersections where the yellow light phase may be too short given downhill momentum.

So now they will study the crash rates, leaving the expansion in limbo for up to nine months, according to DPD. SEE CAMERAS, P4

The Colorado General Assembly comprises 100 members — 35 state senators and 65 state representatives.

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Out of power, GOP aims to be ‘conscience’ at Capitol Polis’ influence becomes apparent in outlook for legislative session

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The defiantly conservative voice of state Rep. Patrick Neville hit some resigned notes the day before the state Legislature convened, with the Republican House leader from Castle Rock and a Senate counterpart appearing to accept the uphill battle that lies ahead of them under new Democratic control.

“I think full-day kindergarten, whether I like it or not, is going to happen,” said Neville, the House minority leader, as he referred to the future of schools at the annual Business Legislative Preview put on by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.

The Jan. 3 event, held in collaboration with the business-advocacy organization Colorado Competitive Council and the Denver Business Journal, saw those Republicans and two Democrats lay out their priorities for the 2019 regular session, which began Jan. 4 and will run roughly four months. That’s the part of the year when legislators pass bills.

House Speaker KC Becker, of Boulder, and Denver Sen. Angela Williams spoke for the Democrats. Senate As-

State House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock, left, and Senate Assistant Minority Leader John Cooke, R-Greeley, on stage Jan. 3 at the sixth annual Business Legislative Preview. The event, put on by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Competitive Council and the Denver Business Journal, was held at the Hyatt Regency Denver hotel in downtown Denver.

ELLIS ARNOLD sistant Minority Leader John Cooke, of Greeley, joined Neville.

With his party now in the minority in both houses, Cooke fashioned Republicans as aiming to be “the conscience of the Legislature,” pushing back against the Democrats’ clear path to legislation with control of the governor’s mansion.

Here’s what the lawmakers had to say in downtown Denver about trans-

portation, education and health care.

‘Taxes off table’ As with last year’s session, the state is riding the wave of rosy predictions of unforeseen revenue, and lawmakers at the event discussed how they’d prefer to spend it, starting with transportation projects.

“Any tax increases are off the table,” Neville said, noting Coloradans voted

down Proposition 110’s sales tax for transportation funding in November.

“People don’t want to raise taxes when affordability is an issue.”

The $645 million that lawmakers poured into transportation in 2018 for the following two years is a start, but the Legislature this year will continue to wrestle with how to catch up to a traffic landscape straining under Colorado’s growth. As of 2016, Colorado carried a $9 billion need for additional transportation funding through 2025.

Major highways, as well as smaller roadways, are in need of updates in multiple parts of the state.

What the Legislature did last year — spending existing revenue rather than raising taxes — would be possible to do this year, too, Neville said.

“That’s what they usually say: that if we don’t have an increase, it’s a cut,” Neville said of budget debates.

“So why can’t we say that for roads?”

Democrats have favored raising sales taxes to boost transportation funding, but Proposition 110’s failure presents a possible roadblock for that route. Last year’s law, Senate Bill 1, set the stage for citizens to vote on a bond package for transportation this year.

The state’s general-fund revenue forecast was higher by $93 million, or 0.8 percent, compared to the September forecast, according to the Office of State Planning and Budgeting in December.

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allows all retailers licensed to sell beer to do so, regardless of alcohol content.

This means Coloradans can now buy full-strength beer at liquor stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations and big-box retailers such as Walmart, Target, Costco and Sam’s Club. Hours for beer sales every day are 8 a.m. to midnight.

The new law will not change where wine and liquor can be purchased. Only licensed liquor stores can sell wine and liquor in Colorado.

Hard cider is considered wine under the law, so to find the full-strength versions Coloradans will still need to buy it from a liquor store.

Ben Ammari, manager of Vineland Liquors in north Arvada, said he believes his family-run liquor store will take a 10 percent hit on beer sales over the next year.

Their store is located about 10 blocks from two King Soopers stores and one Safeway.

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The world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales visited the Colorado Capitol on Dec. 31.

Rudy Helmuth leads Cash, a Budweiser Clydesdale, to the Colorado state Capitol to celebrate the beginning of full-strength beer sales at grocery stores in Colorado.

PHOTOS BY SHANNA FORTIER “I think the first two to three months are going to show a lot,” Ammari said.

“We will adapt to what we need to in order to survive.

The way I look at it is that,

hopefully, the Colorado community will continue to back the family-owned stores.”

Under the new rules, some 1,600 stores will have their licenses automatically

upgraded, allowing them to replace their 3.2 percent beer with higher-alcohol content brews. That includes more than 100 stores for both King Soopers and Safeway, accord-

ing to state records.

Grocers are promising a diverse set of options — including local beer unique to different regions as well as mega-brewers, such as Anheuser-Busch and Coors, and larger craft breweries, including Boston Beer, New Belgium and Sierra Nevada.

“This bill made tomorrow a historic day in Colorado,” Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert, R-Parker, said on New Year’s Eve. “We’ve worked together to bring us to this point. Beer will finally be beer in Colorado.”

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Red-light photo enforcement saves lives by reducing the number of T-bone crashes, according to a study from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety.

I asked Flynn whether he believes they prevent traffic deaths.

“I don’t know that they have, because fatalities are so few and far between that it’s hard to tell what’s statistically significant,” he said. “But I do know that setting the yellow time saves lives and reduces red-light running.”

Flynn cited a California town that drastically reduced red-light running by dragging out the yellow phase a little longer. (The IIHS suggests this tactic can work.) Meanwhile safe streets advocates are fed up with the

timing as soon pace of change. as next week and “Denver should monitor crash be following the rates. example of other The contract leading Vision snafu and yellowZero cities like light theory come New York and after the ColoraWashington, do Department of D.C., that have Transportation dramatically rejected cameras expanded the use on deadly streets of these technol— and after the ogies, resulting in safer streets,” Paul Lopez, police and public works ducked said Jill LocanDenver councilman one councilman’s tore, executive request. director of WalkThe city’s most Denver. “Instead, dangerous streets double as state we seem to be dragging our feet. The highways, so CDOT has final say over longer we delay, the more lives will be which intersections get cameras. Last lost on our streets.” month, the roads agency blocked DenLengthening the yellow phase may ver from adding cameras at Alameda or may not reduce crashes at the and Federal, Colorado and Colfax, and Lincoln Street intersections, accordColfax and Monaco. ing to David Digiacomo, a city traffic The city did not request CDOT’s engineer. He will change the light

‘I’m beyond disappointed that I’ve been led astray and that my request fell on deaf ears at every level.’

permission to add the cameras at 14th Avenue and Federal Boulevard/ Holden Place, despite City Councilman Paul Lopez’s request during budget talks.

“If red-light cameras work to protect people in Boulder, there’s no real reason deadly intersections like 14th and Federal shouldn’t as well,” Lopez said in a text. “I’m beyond disappointed that I’ve been led astray and that my request fell on deaf ears at every level.”

Officer Patrick Phelan, commander of the special operations division, said the police department is “revisiting” with CDOT, which just moved into new offices at that very intersection.

“We stand by this. We think it’s a safe way to ensure a safe driving, biking and walking public,” Phelan said.

The contract is delayed, but the program’s expansion will likely move forward eventually — even if the cameras end up at different intersections, Phelan said.

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Denver Public Libraries says goodbye to overdue fines Libraries find circulation dropping even after reducing, eliminating late fees

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CASEYVANDIVIER@YAHOO.COM

When Denver Public Libraries lowered daily overdue fines in 2014, the goal was clear — the libraries were trying to “reduce barriers to customer access,” Jennifer Hoffman said.

Hoffman, who is the books and borrowing manager at DPL, said the adjustment fell somewhat short of DPL’s vision.

“Those changes were helpful,” she said, “but they really just weren’t quite as impactful as we had hoped.”

The reduction in late fees, which decreased daily fines on an item from 25 cents to 20 cents and set a maximum fine of $3 per item, appears to have had little impact on the total number of items circulated, or checked out to customers, by DPL. Before the adjustment in 2013, DPL had a circulation of 9,811,501. However, by 2015, total circulation had dropped to 9,097,572.

Despite a steady increase in DPL’s expenditures, its 2017 circulation was still lower than that of 2013 at 9,471,889.

In an effort to produce a more significant increase in the circulation of its materials, DPL eliminated all daily overdue fines as of Jan. 1.

“If they don’t bring an item back by the due date, on day 14, they’re going to be blocked — they can’t check out anything else,” Hoffman said. “If they bring that item back, there’s not going to be an overdue fine or anything.”

Should a customer fail to return an item 28 days after the due date, a hold will be placed on his or her account until a replacement fee is repaid, a policy that was already in place before 2019, Hoffman said. However, because of the new policy, the fee will be waived for customers who bring back overdue items, regardless of how much time has passed.

Meanwhile, the changes made to encourage library checkouts in 2014, such as a process that automatically renews items the day before they are due, have remained a part of library policy.

“We really didn’t like the fact that customers were being blocked for fines for items they had actually returned,” Hoffman said.

“And because some customers would renew things late multiple times, they would rack up like $30 in overdue fines for a single item,” she said. “It was crazy.”

DPL started discussing whether or not to eliminate late fees back in 2014,

at a time when several other libraries were doing the same thing. The High Plains Library District in northern Colorado, for example, did away with overdue fines for most items in 2015.

Meanwhile, many other Colorado libraries continue to impose overdue fines because of the potential benefits of such policies. At Douglas County Libraries, where patrons are charged 20 cents per day for an overdue item, Amber DeBerry says some patrons view late fees as a learning experience.

“Some of our staff have heard from our patrons that the late fees are used to teach their children about responsibility,” said DeBerry, director of community relations at DCL. She also added that, while DCL has discussed the idea of eliminating fees in the past, it does not have plans to do so in the near future.

Still, circulation continues to drop As for those libraries that have eliminated late fees, many have yet to see a noticeable effect on their circulation rates.

For High Plains Library District, circulation rose in 2015, the year the policy change was implemented, by 1.18 percent; in the years that followed, however, circulation began to decrease once again, dropping by nearly 200,000 items between 2014 and 2017.

In total, from 2015 to 2017, HPLD’s

circulation decreased by 8.1 percent.

Meanwhile, at DCL, where late fees are still collected, circulation only decreased by 7.46 percent over those two years.

However, though doing away with late fees does not always affect a downward trend in circulation, Hoffman said the practice has other benefits. She and her colleagues hope the elimination of late fees will create a better experience for Denver’s library-goers, just as the policy changes did in 2014.

“Even though we didn’t charge overdue fines for children’s materials, the worry of bringing things back late sometimes would keep parents from checking stuff out,” she said.

She added that the automatic renewal process has “reduced stress” for these customers.

Ideally, the elimination of overdue fines will be permanent, she said.

However, the library will continue to evaluate and respond to the policy’s effectiveness in achieving library goals.

“The elimination of fines is not in any way to suggest that we don’t want our materials back,” Hoffman said.

“It’s really more that we would much rather give customers continued access to materials than levy arbitrary fines that may be difficult for them to pay.”

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HEAR MY VOICE

Young voices carry a powerful message

In this week’s special report called “Hear My Voice,” young people from Denver share their stories, their passions, their hopes for the future.

They come from different backgrounds, places and experiences that have shaped who they are, how they view the world and what they want to change.

In a year marked by the rise of unprecedented youth activism, in which young people fought to be heard, the stories in this report reflect some of the nation’s most pressing challenges.

The excerpts from these interviews, which have been edited for clarity and space, point to a com-

mon call to action: to listen better, to be more compassionate, to be willing to change.

They are aware of their power — 24 percent of the U.S. population is under 18, U.S. Census numbers show.

They understand the issues because many live them, and they

see the country we are becoming: By 2055, the United States will have no racial or ethnic majority, Pew Research Center reports.

These young men and women are adamant in the belief they can make a difference — and that their voices should be heard.

So, let’s listen.

STORIES AND PHOTOS BY TAYLORE TODD SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

‘People should listen to everyone’ Ikram Zetraoui and Rokaya Abdulameer Denver

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kram Zetraoui, 18, was a freshman in high school when she moved to Denver from Morocco to live with her older sister. A high school senior, she hopes to study psychology and criminology to become a detective or psychiatrist. She has always been interested, she says, in trying to understand how people view themselves.

Rokaya Abdulameer, 17, emigrated from Iraq in 2009 to seek shelter from the war. Being from another culture, she says, has taught her not to judge. Also a senior, she plans to study business and pre-law in college next year.

If you knew me, you would know …

Ikram: “When I speak my language, people try to protect themselves and they scoot away from where I am. It happened once on a bus, but I didn’t know anyone there, so I didn’t know how to react. One time it happened at school and another girl stood up for me. It’s nice to have allies and people who are going to stand up for you and tell you how to react in that situation because I wouldn’t know what to do.

“Anything that’s attached to human services — serving food, giving them their needs — anything that is serving them makes me happy.

Seeing people in front of me suffer and going through the same kind of situation, it made me realize that so many people are ungrateful for

Rokaya Abdulameer things they have. And people who don’t have anything are so grateful for what they do have. I just try to find a balance between those two kinds of people.”

Rokaya: “Not living in Iraq made it hard to understand where my culture came from, but my parents have taught me everything — our Arabic language, our traditions. I love the people of my culture and everything, really. The food, the dancing, the celebrations.

Coming here, “I didn’t know that so many cultures could exist in one place, because I grew up around people who followed the same values and traditions as me and my family.”

How I want to change the world Ikram: “People see immigrants as people who are trying to steal their jobs and trying to get their salaries ... Muslim people are seen as ... not on the same level of humanity ... At the end of the day,

Ikram Zetraoui if we really look into America’s deepest economy, we see it’s based on immigrants. I would like other people to see immigrants as how they see themselves.

“If I had a chance to change the world, I would probably change how people are viewed ... Why is there so much hatred ... and so many crimes? ... I’m interested in human services, and that’s a way for me to help other people. I’m thinking about doing that as volunteering. I feel like I’m pretty good with other people ... helping people in need — coming together as one, basically.”

Rokaya: “The biggest problem right now is that people think everyone from the Middle East is a terrorist and all that, so I guess that’s the biggest thing that I would want to change ... People are not like that, you just have to get to know them.

“My biggest goal is to go back and use the opportunities I’ve had in America to help however I can.

I was thinking about it, and there’s

a lack of education there. I think that’s my biggest goal is to just go back to the schools in need and just help out. I have pretty good English — maybe I can teach them there.”

Why my voice is important Ikram: “If we all come as one collective mind, I feel like we would be so much more successful than just looking back on our mistakes and blaming it on other people and other countries. We need to forget all of this hate that is between us.”

Rokaya: “We are the future and this generation has a lot to offer.

Knowing different perspectives helps us understand the world more.

I think I bring a different perspective, which is why people should listen to everyone, especially those who are from different cultures.

Just don’t judge someone by their cover. I think that’s the biggest thing I’ve learned — just to not judge someone if you don’t know them.”

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HEAR MY VOICE

‘Trayvon Martin could have been me’

Isaiah Alfonso

‘There’s no reason to be ashamed of who you are’

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Isaiah Alfonso Denver

saiah Alfonso, 16, volunteers with Rainbow Alley, a safe space for young members of the LGBTQ community, where he, too, feels safe. He identifies as non-binary, but mostly as trans male, he says. After dealing with mental health challenges, he fell behind in school, eventually to the point where he knew he couldn’t catch up. He is now working toward a GED and plans to attend college to study psychology.

If you knew me, you would know …

“I realized when I was pretty young.

When I was 5 years old, I loved girly things. I was like `This is how girls are supposed to be.’ All pink and princesses.

Then I saw this soccer game of a local soccer team where all the girls had their hair in ponytails and they were all wearing blue and looked the exact same as the boys. I was like `Huh, something seems a little weird here, I think my favorite color is blue now.’ And as time went on, I became slowly more passionate. I was not a girl, I was a tomboy — there’s a very big difference. Then I found out what trans is, and the rest is history. “... Everyone around me was definitely not super restorative of my struggle. But it’s turned out pretty good so far. Most people who were around me back then aren’t around me anymore or have changed for the better.

“I’d say that the hardest thing was losing some of the people that I did or, just in general, seeing the backlash I got from people. When you come out, you don’t expect it to be that bad, especially when you’re really young. You just think `No one’s going to give me any crap.’ I was the token queer kid at school ... People didn’t take me very seriously and they were rude. For the most part, my transition, even though I haven’t medically transitioned yet — because that’s a lot of stuff and things to do — but just the social

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FOR MORE INFORMATION The Rainbow Alley, operated by the GLBT Community Center of Colorado, provides a safe dropin space, along with youth-led events, counseling and support groups, health services and life skills for LGBTQ youth ages 11 to 21. 1301 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-733-7743, https://www. glbtcolorado.org/programs/rainbow-alley/ transition itself has, luckily, gone pretty smoothly.”

How I want to change the world “I just want people to know that they can be whatever they want to be and they shouldn’t feel ashamed for being themselves. And I just want people to treat trans people normal … People expect you to look a certain way or else you aren’t real. I just don’t want people to worry about being themselves … and to have the space to be themselves because there’s no reason to be ashamed of who you are or pretend you’re something that you’re not ... As long as you don’t hurt anyone else, what’s the real harm in being you — no matter what you look like?”

Being transgender “made me have a perspective where I can appreciate the outlandish a little bit more because I am considered outlandish and weird by most people. I just have this odd perspective on life where I was raised as one thing then found out I was another.

“I want to do a lot of public work with LGBT youth. A lot of them don’t know who they are or what they want to be or what they are looking for. I hope that I am someone who can help lead them to where they want to be.”

Why my voice is important “Youth have new ideas. We haven’t been raised in the same society that a lot of adults were. We come in with a fresh head and new perspective on things, so we see things that not everyone else does. So many kids are really intelligent, and no one gives them the space they deserve to say these awesome things they are thinking.”

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Tay Anderson Denver

ay Anderson, 20, is running for the Denver Public Schools board election in 2019 because he wants to improve safety in schools. A student at Metropolitan State University of Denver, he is taking a gap year to focus on his campaign. He first ran for school board in 2017 when he was a senior in high school, but lost. Because of family issues, he spent about eight months in foster care when he was 16. His activism began in 2015 when he attended a protest against police brutality. Today, he works to create justice and equal opportunity for people of color.

If you knew me, you would know …

“I think we come with a unique experience because a lot of people think that we are still clinging onto the past, and we’re not clinging onto the past — we’re just trying to rectify the wrongs of the past. When Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, he’s not taking a knee to say that this is for Martin Luther King.

He’s saying that this is for every unarmed black man that’s been shot in the 21st century, for kids that are still living in poverty, for young people that aren’t allowed to have a voice. It’s also been used against me. I’ve had people tell me that because of the color of my skin, I won’t be able to win a citywide race. I just get to prove them wrong in November.

I mean, I might be black, but my blackness doesn’t define where it’s going to take me in the future.

“My activism started on July 5th, actually my birthday, in 2015

when Alton Sterling was killed, because I’d had enough of waking up to the news that another unarmed black person was killed by people that we trust to protect us. Trayvon Martin could have been me. Eric Garner could have been me. Philando Castile could have been me. All of these other African-American males that have been killed at the hands of law enforcement could have been me ... I just got tired of injustice.”

How I want to change the world “A lot of people think that I want to be president — which is cool and I would love to do that — but I want to help my city before I try to go save the world. So that’s why I’m running for the Denver school board.

My city desperately needs some young perspective on the board of education. They need somebody who knows what it means to sit in those seats and what it means to have failed policies used against them. Before we can go change the world and worry about what’s happening in D.C., we have to fix our cities ...”

Why my voice is important “My work has never been about me, it’s never going to be about me. It’s about making sure that the next person who looks like me, who has a funny name like me — my real name isn’t Tay, its Auontai — who have these different, unique characteristics just like myself understand that they, too, have a place in the world.

“It’s time for us to stand up, to understand what we’re inheriting — because we can either inherit a system that we helped craft or we can inherit a system we’re forced to recreate.”

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Traditional haiku are threeline poems. The first and third lines have five syllables each.

The middle line has seven syllables.

Haiku rarely rhyme.

There are modern haiku with different configurations, but for the purposes of this contest, I want you to stick to five-seven-five.

Yes: contest.

There are no prizes, but I will select the best ones and include them in an upcoming column.

I have a favor to ask: Don’t plagiarize. Write your own.

Traditionally, haiku have referred to nature, but this competition is wide open.

Japanese haiku, which led to English haiku, are lovely, and, well, poetic. But modern ones can be found that are humorous and even disrespectful of traditional limitations.

Here are examples of each. Traditionalists might balk and wriggle at the second one.

“The first cold shower. Even the

monkey seems to want. A little coat of straw.”

That was written by Matsuo Basho (1644-94).

“Haiku are easy. But sometimes they don’t make sense. Refrigerator.”

That was written by Anonymous.

Jack Kerouac QUIET wrote “American DESPERATION sentences,” which are similar to haiku in simplicity.

For example: “The taste. Of rain. Why kneel?”

By the way, the plural of “haiku” is “haiku.”

Language has become a slapdash Craig Marshall of convenience, with very little poetry Smith nearby.

When I was growing up, none of my friends said he wanted to be a poet, although we were often impressed by limericks.

What none of us knew was this: “A limerick is a form of verse, almost

always humorous and frequently rude, in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme” (Wikipedia).

It was the rude part that attracted us. If someone knew a limerick, they were admired, which was not true with other forms of poetry.

Reciting “Barbara Fritchie,” for example, would have been a bad idea; but with a limerick, you’d be in like Flynn.

Here’s a-safe-for work example: “There was a young lady of Kent.

Whose nose was most awfully bent.

She followed her nose. One day I suppose. And no one knows which way she went.”

If you’re wondering what “anapestic meter” means, so am I, and I am looking at the definition.

“In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one; in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables and one stressed

syllable” (Wikipedia again).

And I thought limericks were written by old sods just having a pint.

There is an underlying structure with all good writing that sometimes goes unnoticed. My own strategies are so subtle, however, that it could be gathered they don’t exist.

But if you look closely, you’d find a number of distressed syllables rooming with various meters.

An even closer look shows that the way I write is a lot like the way Harry performs on a walk. He goes where it smells good.

The deadline for your haiku, sent to email address at the end of this column, is Feb. 14.

Traditional haiku lines are not separated by periods, but please do so for this contest.

Again: Please write your own, in five-seven-five, one per author, and know that ribaldry will not be acceptable. Except most privately.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident.

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

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However, simply responding with a “yes” would have meant that I assumed that I was fully aware of the real question being asked. So before answering, I asked a few more questions of my own.

I mean critical thinking, after all, is a very hot topic in the professional training business these days, so it could have been very easy to dive right into how people could and should use some form of critical thinking to help draw their own conclusions based on challenging or accepting the statements or theories of others at face value. So for me, I wanted to know more about the real reason for the question.

One of the questions I asked was this: “Critical thinking could mean different things to different people, can you be more specific about what you are looking for when you think

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Especially in an age where we have so much access to information, input, and opinions of others. There is even more power in getting people to stop thinking, behaving, and speaking critically. Constructive criticism is a powerful tool when administered properly and discussed with proper and inspired intent. Criticism for the sake of tearing someone or something down is nothing more than a demolition mission typically driven by malintent or personal agenda.

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And if you are in the habit of acting, thinking, or speaking critically of others, perhaps try to remember a famous quote by Zig Ziglar: “A positive mental attitude will not allow you to do anything. But a positive mental attitude will allow you to do everything 100 percent better than a negative attitude will.”

How about you? Have you learned how powerful following a process of critical thinking can be? Are you working to avoid thinking critically of others? As always, I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can combine solid critical thinking with the proper positive intent, it really will be a better than good week.

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Yoga with Crystal Singing Bowls: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 10 and 17 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. Enjoy a yoga class, and while in savasana, soak in the vibrations of crystalline singing bowls. These bowls are believed to promote balance, calming energy and relaxation. $18, $15 member. More information at botanicgardens.org.

“The Parks” exhibit by Topher Straus at Niza Knoll Gallery: Jan. 11 through Feb. 16 at Niza Knoll Gallery opened in the Art District on Santa Fe at 915 Santa Fe Drive. Artist Topher Straus chose to use the vast National Park system, established 150 years ago, as a blueprint for his unconventional representational landscapes featured in a new exhibit.

Visit www.nizaknollgallery.comfor more information.

Elsa Sroka Solo: “Ablaze”: Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 at Abend Gallery, 1412 Wazee St. Exhibition on display through Jan. 26. Abend Gallery kicks off the New Year with a brilliant and vibrant solo exhibition, “Ablaze”, by a Colorado new-contemporary artist, Elsa Sroka. In this solo comprised of eighteen canvases, Sroka presents a variety of subjects—animals, botanicals and landscapes, all of which exude a forward-thinking, contemporary attitude. For more information, call 303-355-0950 or visit abendgallery.com.

Denver Brass Presents “Rhapsody in Brass”: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 at Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1385 Curtis St. Denver. Join us as we welcome New York pianist Steven Mayer and the acclaimed Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. We’ll bring to life the American sounds of Gershwin, Bernstein, and more.

Tickets start at $39. Discounts for students, seniors & new fans. Contact 303-832-4676 or info@denverbrass.org for more information.

Beatles vs. Stones: A Musical Showdown comes to the Oriental Theater Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 - $45 and may be purchased online at theorientaltheater.com, by phone at 720-420-0030 or at the Theatre Box Office. The Oriental Theater is located at 4335 West 44th Avenue, Denver, CO 80212.

The show is appropriate for all ages.

“A Typewriter Revolution”: 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 12 at the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. The members of Buntport Theater challenge the digital paradigm with poems and stories written on, for and about our good old friend… the Typewriter! Single tickets are $15-$28 and available online at www.storiesonstage.org or by calling 303-494-0523.

Volunteer Open House at History Colorado: 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 at History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, Denver. Learn about the essential role volunteers play in education, guest services, and visitor support. Current volunteers and staff will be on hand to discuss openings and the rewards of volunteering.

We will be handing out prizes to attendees for your participation which will include: the chance to win free tickets to the History Colorado Center & Colorado Center for Women’s History at the Byers Evans House, the chance to enter into a raffle for a free behind the scenes tour of the History Colorado collections. Call (303) 447-8679 or visit historycolorado.org for more information.

Tropical Trails Tour: 2 to 3 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 12 and Jan. 26 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. The plants in the Boettcher

THINGS to DO Memorial Tropical Conservatory enjoy a warm climate year-round. Enjoy the lush vegetation, vibrant flowers and warmth of the tropics as you stroll through the Gardens’ tropical collections with a docent. $14, $12 member, $10 student. More information at botanicgardens. org.

Macramé Air Plant Hanger Workshop: Noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. In this workshop, Amie Phillips of Boriya + Co, introduces the steps necessary to create macramé pieces. Learn four basic macramé knots and use these knots to craft a plant hanger for an air plant. $48, 42 member. More information at botanicgardens.org.

Mark Padmore, tenor and Paul Lewis, piano: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16 at Gates Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Dubbed “the dream team” by The New York Times, world-class English tenor, Mark Padmore, and internationally-renowned pianist, Paul Lewis, will appear as a part of Friends of Chamber Music’s 65th season. Tickets: Single tickets are available at friendsofchambermusic.com or by calling the Newman Center Box Office at 303-871-7720. $40 for adults; $10 for ages 30 and under.

Happy Hour Chamber Concerts: 6 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 18 at Epiphany Lutheran Church, 790 S Corona St., Denver. A Musical Journey Through Time, with Ann Marie Morgan and Sandra Wong. Viola da gamba and nyckelharpa are a match made in heaven, sharing and enhancing each other’s resonances to create a new “instrument”. Sandra and Ann Marie will reach back into the origins of their instruments (15th century), making stops along the way in the Renaissance, Baroque and Folk genres. New compositions from the 20th/21st centuries will also be featured. Works by Bach take on a whole new life in their care. Tickets: $15/$13 in advance; $17/$15 at the door. Visit happyhourconcerts.org/buy-tickets.

Invitation to Ikebana: Contemporary: 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. Ikebana is an expression of our respect and appreciation towards nature. We observe life through the arrangement of plants. During each class, participants get hands-on instruction to put together an arrangement to take home. $44, $39 member. More information at botanicgardens.org.

Resolutions-Women’s Caucus for Art Show @ Core New Art Space: Through Jan. 20 at the Core New Art Space, 900 Santa Fe Drive.

Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11. This year’s Annual Member’s Show was chosen to represent the “action” of solving a problem or making a decision. Event is free.

Visit coreartspace.com for more information.

SPREE Holiday Camp: Environment Investigators: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21 at Johnson Habitat Park, 610 S. Jason St. SPREE= South Plate River Environmental Education. Join SPREE when DPS has off for fun and educational days filled with games, crafts, adventures and even top secret missions about the environment! thegreenwayfoundation.org/holiday-camps.html.

InSidewalk Sale: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 21 through Jan. 26 at Cherry Creek North, 2401 E. 2nd Ave. Attention savvy shoppers! What better way to kick off the New Year than getting awesome deals at your favorite businesses?

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urday, January 26 at participating businesses throughout the area. Visit cherrycreeknorth. com/things-to-do/ccn-signature-events/ insidewalk-sale for more information.

League of Women Voters Denver Presents: Dreamers: View the Movie and Meet the Dreamers: 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Montview Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia Street, McCollum Room. This 30-minute documentary tells the story of five Dreamers who are no different from our own young relatives except they have no stable status in our country. Visit lwvdenver.org for more information.

Family Workshop: Winter Fairies: 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. Create miniature lands for mystical garden friends. Each child can create a container garden to take home. Classes are designed for families with children ages 5-10. All adults attending the workshop must register for the program. Non-participating siblings do not participate in the activities. $17 non-member child; $15 member child; $12 non-member adult, $10 member adult. More information at botanicgardens.org.

Preserving Citrus: Marmalade: 6 to 9 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 24 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. Learn the history of marmalade and how to make your own with fresh, organic, winter citrus spread.

Participants take home one jar of handmade marmalade preserves. $56, $51 member. More information at botanicgardens.org.

Starting Your Garden from Seed: 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. This class demysti-

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fies the seed-starting process and explores unusual seeds. The class is good review for more the advanced gardener who may need a refresher. $37, $32 member. More information at botanicgardens.org.

The INDO EXPO Trade Show: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 26 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 at Denver Mart, 451 E. 58th Ave., Denver. Attendees will find the merchandise to fill the shelves of the following stores: Hydroponic, Garden, Dispensaries, Smoke, Hardware, Apparel, Gift, Jewelry and Accessories, Souvenir, Art and Glass Galleries, Ski and more. Visit go.evvnt.com/323533-2?pid=4951 for more information.

Art of Smartphone Photography: 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. Whether you’re new to photography or a seasoned professional, there is more to learn about leveraging this accessible digital technology. $29, $24 member.

More information at botanicgardens.org.

Germinal Stage presents: The Pinter Plays: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m.

Sundays, through Feb. 2 at the John Hand Theater, 7623 E. 1st. Place, Denver. “The Collection” and “The Room,” by the Nobel Laureate.

Did she or didn’t she and who’s the strange man in the basement? Open Seating. Reserve now: 303-455-7108.

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eant to be proactive, healthy and good for one’s well-being, New Year’s resolutions can be daunting, challenging, and most of the time don’t last long. According to Business Insider, 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail by February.

In 2019, 41 percent of Coloradans want to save money and 27 percent want to travel. The two New Year’s resolutions topped the list in a survey conducted by Offers.com,

TOP NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS IN COLORADO Offers.com, an online marketplace that offers coupons and specials for about 16,000 retailers and brands, tracks New Year’s resolutions trends across the country and by state.

Here’s a look at how Colorado are expressing their resolve for 2019 based on survey results.

an online marketplace that studies business trends. Next down the list were exercising more, getting a new job or hobby and finding love.

Reasons for giving up on these goals vary from feeling overwhelmed to absence of a plan to lack of support. But with the right mindset and a few tips from health and wellness experts, goals for the New Year can be achieved.

Give it time In an era of nonstop social media and virtual connectedness, instant gratification is oftentimes expected.

• 41 percent of people said their No.1 resolution is to save money.

• 27 percent of people said travel.

• 27 percent of people said exercise more or lose weight.

• 17 percent said get a new job or hobby.

• 12 percent said find love.

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That can be a roadblock when completing a New Year’s resolution, said Dru Connolly, who runs the fitness department at the Highlands Ranch Community Association.

“It’s not something that’s going to happen quickly,” Connolly said.

“It takes a while to make it part of your lifestyle.”

She sees a surge in people exercising at HRCA’s four recreation centers in the first few weeks of the new year. Then the numbers tend to trickle off.

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TIPS TO MAKE YOUR RESOLUTIONS STICK Set small, achievable goals throughout the year, instead of one overwhelming goal on Jan. 1.

Make resolutions that you think you can keep. If you want to exercise more, schedule three or four days a week at the gym instead

of seven. If you want to eat healthier, try to substitute dessert with something else you enjoy, like fruit.

Work toward changing one thing at a time to avoid feeling overwhelmed.

Consider joining a support group, such as a workout

class at a gym.

Remember that minor mistakes are completely normal. Don’t give up — recover from your mistakes and get back on track.

If you feel overwhelmed or unable to meet your goals on your own, consider

seeking professional help.

Psychologists can offer strategies, help change unhealthy behaviors and address emotional issues.

Source: American Psychological Association, www.apa. org/helpcenter/resolution. aspx

here is no manual for veterans when it comes to re-entering civilian society after spending time in the service. There are all manner of challenges to face and lessons to learn, and it is COMING easy to imagine ATTRACTIONS feeling disoriented when faced with such overwhelming changes.

Some veterans deal with these stresses by creating art that expresses their experiences in a healing way.

Clarke Reader And in January, Colorado Humanities, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, Hemera Foundation and RedLine Contemporary Art Center are presenting events to share the works of these artists.

“Colorado Humanities believes that amplifying voices of those who have experienced conflict as military veterans and engaging them in conversations with nonmilitary community members is one way we can help veterans who struggle to integrate in their home communities when they return from deployment,” explained Bess Maher, Veterans Writing Program coordinator with Colorado Humanities. “I’m hopeful this program will amplify the voices of veterans and military service members who are also writers and artists, inspire other veteran writers and artists, and bring attention to veterans’ issues.”

The first event is a reading at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, at BookBar, 4280 Tennyson St. in Denver, by contributors to the anthology, “Still Coming Home: Denver Veterans Writing.”

The second event is a series of three discussions called “Personal Visions: Discussions with Veteran Writers and Artists.” The discussions will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 16, 23 and 30 at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 1070 Bannock St. in Denver.

Each event will feature different participants, so audiences can attend as many as they would like.

“These events are a great first step for civilians who want to learn more about what it means to be a veteran,” Maher said. “And anyone interested in the creative process will find something interesting in these discussions.”

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It takes 21 days to form a habit, Connolly said. To fully adopt a lifestyle change takes about 60 days.

Connolly encourages residents to stick with their exercise goals, even if it means starting with two to three workouts a week or a quick workout at home.

The American Psychological Association has similar advice. Start small, the association says. If the goal is to exercise more, schedule three or four days a week at the gym instead of seven. If the goal is to eat healthier, replace dessert with something enjoyable like fruit, instead of attempting a restrictive diet. d Plan accordingly Making a change isn’t easy. Mental Health America reports that 60 percent of people who achieve their New Year’s resolutions mess up at least once before succeeding.

Heather Aardema, a national board certified health and wellness coach from Wheat Ridge, sees it in her practice. Recently, she had a client express concerns about losing weight with the upcoming holidays.

Aardema has a list of tips to make -New Year’s resolutions — or goals in general — less intimidating.

“New Year’s resolutions can be tremendously powerful and lifechanging,” she said, “if they are done right.”

First, prepare for a goal by forming

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A horse of an artistic color Greenwood Village’s Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road, and Greenwood Village City Hall, 6060 S. Quebec St., are celebrating the history of the horse and ways the animal is still a part of modern life with two horse art exhibits. Both shows run concurrently through Feb. 23.

The “Horse Power” exhibit at the Curtis center features works from contemporary artists from across the country and includes several lifesize horse sculptures. “Caballo de Fuerza,” housed at city hall, is a display of historical horse artifacts on loan from Museo De Las Americas in Denver’s Santa Fe Arts District.

Find out more at www.greenwoodvillage.com/1247/Curtis-Center-forthe-Arts.

Settle the debate — Beatles or Stones?

As a society, we love a good bit of competition, especially when it leads nto rankings. That’s why one of the most common questions music critics are asked is who was better — the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?

Instead of debating the question, the Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave. in Denver, aims to settle the dispute with Beatles vs. Stones —

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a strategic plan. Suddenly starting a starvation diet becomes hard really fast, Aardema said.

She recommends taking a character strength survey at www.viacharacter.org. From there, an individual can develop a plan based on his or her strong qualities.

Aardema’s strengths, for example, are zest, self-regulation and love.

“I use those character strengths to overcome my challenges and hurtles,” she said. “Embrace your strengths when you’re taking on New Year’s resolutions. After six A Musical Showdown. This dueling concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 13.

The Beatles will be represented by tribute band Abbey Road and will face off against Rolling Stones tribute band Satisfaction. This battle royale is not to be missed by fans of either group or lovers of classic rock.

Tickets can be purchased at 720420-0030 or by visiting www.theorientaltheater.com.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Mick Jenkins at the Bluebird One of my favorite aspects about rap as a genre is the wide breadth of artists that can fit under its umbrella. There is room for big, cinematic acts like Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Travis Scott to take over the pop culture, while gritty street chroniclers like Roc Marciano and jazz poets like Mick Jenkins can still build a devoted fanbase.

Jenkins released one of the most soulful and lovely rap albums of 2018 with “Pieces of a Man.” In support of the album, Jenkins will be performing at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at the Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave. For a taste of what makes modern rap the most exciting and enlightening genre around, get your tickets at www.bluebirdtheater.net.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.

months it gets easier, becomes more robotic — you no longer have to think about it.”

Share with others Sharing New Year’s resolutions with a spouse, family member or friend holds a person accountable,

Aardema said.

“If you don’t tell people about your goals,” she said, “it makes it a lot easier to quit.”

Being open with others about goals and life changes builds confidence, commitment and will power, health and wellness organizations say. The American Psychological Association recommends joining a support group when striving for a major life change, such as quitting smoking or upping an exercise routine.

“Having someone to share your struggles and successes with makes your journey to a healthier lifestyle that much easier and less intimidating,” the association says.

And if support from a social circle isn’t doing the trick, a therapist or psychologist is another great option. Sometimes, a lifestyle change requires the help of a professional who is trained in areas of behavior or mental health, the American Psychological Association says.

Health and wellness experts agree on one thing: quitting on a New Year’s resolution isn’t the answer.

Though it may not be as simple as imagined, it’s possible to make a goal for 2019 last longer than one month.

“Make it an endurance event,” Aardema said. “Believe that you’re worthy of getting there.”

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For thousands of years, the Ute tribes lived off the land of the Rocky Mountains, traveling the region with the seasons, spending winters in the valleys and warm summer months in the high trails. Using their knowledge and skills, the Utes were able to survive before modern sciences came to be.

Written on the Land, a new exhibit at History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, highlights the Ute’s knowledge of math, botany and even engineering.

The exhibit was done in collaboration with three tribes: the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.

Denver resident Ernest House Jr., a member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, was one of 30 consultants from the IF YOU GO three tribes to help develop the exhibit.

History ColoAn example of rado is at 1200 early skills is the enBroadway, Denver. Written gineering tribes used to create the wickiin the Land ups the tribes used is included in general admis- for shelter. Throughsion. For more out the Front Range, House said, about 300 information, visit www.his- wickiups made by the Utes are still standtorycolorado. ing. Ute tribes were org/ using what modern classrooms call STEM learning — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — long before those terms existed.

“We look at this example of the Utes as a way of always using a STEM principle to thrive and sur-

UTE INDIAN MUSEUM The Ute Indian Museum in Montrose first opened in 1956. History Colorado recently worked with the community there to renovate the museum, which reopened last summer.

Written on the Land is the Denver extension of that museum, with a majority of the items on display at 1200 Broadway coming from Montrose. Other items were temporarily donated to the museum by private collectors and families from the Ute tribes.

To have a museum solely dedicated to a specific tribe is rare, said Liz Cook, exhibit director of Written on the Land. Having the museum has built History Colorado’s ties with the Utes and helped bring the new exhibit to Denver.

“The Ute people have felt connected to that place,” Cook said. Written on the Land “is really the fruition of that relationship.”

To learn more about the Ute Indian Museum, visit www.historycolorado.org/ute-indianmuseum. vive,” House said.

Exhibit director Liz Cook said that while creating Written on the Land, History Colorado received a five-year grant for $2 million from the National Science Foundation in 2016 to do more research on the tribes’ early technology.

Some of the pieces on display at the museum show the ingenuity of the tribes, who used sap to waterproof baskets and math to lay out the designs of their bead work. One of the basket fragments on display at History Colorado dates back 7,000 years.

“One of the things we’re highlighting in the exhibit is this idea that Ute people were also scientists,” Cook said. “They were thinking about science and technology.”

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The Ute tribes were known for their bead work. As part of a research grant from the National Science Foundation, History Colorado is researching the STEM principles that the Ute Tribes used in their every day lives.

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ART THROUGH TIME Some of the pieces on exhibit at Written on the Land can be placed on a timeline based on the art, exhibit director Liz Cook said. Certain colors in beadwork were more common than others during different time periods.

How things were done can also date a piece.

Quivers, for example, were painted as an older tradition, Cook said. Beads were introduced in the 1700s, which was when people also started making beaded quivers as well as belts, necklaces and more. The more contemporary beadwork will have iridescent beads and beads with different shades of one color. people in the Denver metro area.

For House and Atencio, the hope is that the exhibit will help the future of the Ute tribes — inspiring youth to start something similar for their own tribes and generating in young Utes a feeling of pride in who they are.

“The kids get to see themselves, then they can be proud of who they are,” Atencio said. “Maybe that feeling gets to grow.”

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As part of the grant, History Colorado is conducting STEM research with students from the Ute tribes and learning about techniques that have been passed down through generations. The program will reach 128,000 individuals.

Beaded necklaces, clothes and baskets are just a few of the items that can be seen at Written on the Land, which follows the timelines of the Ute people. It follows the tribes’ history in Colorado: through their early days in the area, through violence when white settlers began restricting their land and into the contemporary lives of its people today.

History Colorado wanted to help teach people more about the culture and lives of the state’s earliest residents, Cook said.

Cassandra Atencio, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act coordinator for the Southern Ute Tribe, said seeing so much of her own family history on the museum walls has been her favorite part of the exhibit. She was happy to see the collaboration between the tribes and the museum.

Highlighting the tribes as the first people in the Rocky Mountains has been especially important.

“This is where our heart is,” she said. “That culture needs to be known.”

Written on the Land is on display at History Colorado as a long-term exhibit. The pieces in Denver are part of an extension from a community museum run by History Colorado in Montrose, the Ute Indian Museum.

House said he hopes the exhibit will help tell the story of a people that still live in the Denver metro area, as well as on reservations. “History started before 1776,” he said.

House was formerly executive director of the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs. About 2 percent of the population identifies as American Indian, he said, or about 40,000

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Left, state House Speaker KC Becker, D-Boulder, and state Sen. Angela Williams, D-Denver, on stage Jan. 3 at the sixth annual Business Legislative Preview. The event, put on by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Competitive Council and the Denver Business Journal, was held at the Hyatt Regency Denver hotel in downtown Denver.

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After a strong 14.1 percent increase in fiscal year 2017-18, the revenue is still predicted to grow at a 6.5 percent rate in this fiscal year, after Colorado’s economic expansion continued at a healthy pace in 2018, according to the office.

Polis ‘made policy clear’ Asked by the moderator if K-12 education needs more funding sources, Cooke put the onus on local school districts to go it alone in asking for tax increases.

“We did give more funding to schools last year,” Cooke said. “I think, obviously, more funding is needed, but we’re a local control state.”

In April, hundreds of teachers and education personnel from around Colorado protested at the Capitol, in part over what advocates say is a funding shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars. Democratic state legislators spoke at that rally.

“Local districts have the ability to make the argument to their community for more funding,” Cooke said. “Responsibility falls back on, I think, the local districts.”

On the specific question of funding for full-day kindergarten — a rallying cry brought to the recent forefront by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ campaign — Neville appeared to accept some of the Democrats’ agenda as inevitable.

“The governor has made clear (fullday kindergarten) is going to happen,” Neville said.

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Republicans would push to make sure that standard also applies to charter schools, Neville said.

Health care still muddled Not many darts managed to stick last session in debates over how to rein in health-care costs, and from the Jan. 3 event, it’s unclear what will emerge this year as viable ideas.

Becker, the House speaker, said health care is “a little bit like whack-a-mole — you think you fix this, but another thing pops up.” She said the Legislature could consider “a variety of things.”

“Surprise billing is something we’re looking at,” Becker said. “There’s been a proliferation of free-standing emergency rooms all up and down the Front Range that are driving up the cost of health

care.”

Democrats also support reinsurance as a way to bring down costs, Becker said.

That’s the concept of applying for an Affordable Care Act waiver for a fund to help insurers pay for high-cost customers, reducing premiums for others, according to the Colorado Health Institute, a health-policy research nonprofit.

Transparency regarding health-care costs is still a priority for Democrats, Becker said, and the Republican leaders argued that some transparency efforts would only generate reports that would go to the government but aren’t useful to the consumer.

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