Mitt Romney: Job Killer

   These days you just don’t know what story line to believe. Take the box-office hit that portrays Abraham Lincoln’s role as a vampire killer. I don’t know. That doesn’t match any of my previous reading.    Then we have the narrative from Mitt Romney — job creator, economic prince on a white steed. It…

America, the gated community

    Somewhere in pledging allegiance to trickle-down schemes, buying warfare on credit, and putting the interests of millionaires ahead of our own, a lot of us forgot what government does.     Here’s what we forgot: More than transporting us, lighting our streets and making our taps flow, government invests in human potential.    …

The fire next door

   FORT COLLINS, Colo. — We watched the fireworks. Then we watched the fire. It continues to singe our eyelashes.    Last Wednesday, the pyro bombs weren't gunpowder-made but thunderheads popping off in the night. We watched them in our driveways, wondering which would bring rain.    Instead … .   Though the stormfront flung hail…