CSBJ Daily

Having written a newspaper column for more than 10 years, I’ve become something of a connoisseur of the genre. I suppose that I read a dozen columnists regularly. Some I admire, some I abhor, but one stands out - and he’s not really a columnist.
He’s Bill Gross, an investment advisor who runs PIMCO, the biggest […]

Hi. Welcome to Wal-Mart. May I take your order?
Sure, I’ll have a throat culture, a blood test and a colonoscopy – oh, and a prescription to go, please.
As the nation’s health care system becomes more complicated and expensive, more people are turning to store-based clinics to check-ups and minor health needs.
And, as an Associated […]

Nope, I didn’t have advance notice of Michael De Marsche’s impending exit - even though, in retrospect, last week’s column seems eerily prescient.
I just remembered the wise words of the favorite author of my youth, A. Conan Doyle, whose most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, once said : “When you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever […]

Early Saturday morning, someone left a healthy newborn baby on the doorstep of the Stetson Hills police station, and police and city officials are searching for the mom.
Why?
Seven years ago the state of Colorado adopted the so called Safe Haven law (c.r.s. 18-6-401 and 19-3-304.5), which states that any mother who leaves a newborn baby […]

Barry Bonds is, by all accounts, a singularly unpleasant man-sullen, arrogant, and nasty to opponents, teammates, and fans alike. In all likelyhood, he owes his home run record both to his own remarkable athleticism and to the relentless use of performance-enhancing drugs in the latter years of his career.
So that puts baseball fans in a […]

It’s become all too evident that the world’s twenty somethings – and even thirty somethings in the case of yours truly – don’t think too much about financial planning.
But, a Pennsylvania company has come up with an idea to change all that and pique once and for all the retirement planning interests of young people. […]

Here’s a little news item from the so-called Korean News Agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.
“New Ice Physical Acrobatics Created Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) — The Pyongyang Circus has recently created the ice physical acrobatic suite “Young People on the Ice”. The suite consists of more than 10 items, including Plastic Rotation […]

If you’re wondering why the speed limit on some stretches of I-25 through Colorado Springs is still 45 mph even though it appears the COSMIX construction is finished, you’re not alone.
Rockrimmon Constructors spokesman Kyle Troxel said highway officials have been overwhelmed with questions and complaints about the lowered speed limit that was dropped from 55 […]

We have a TV in our office that’s tuned to CNN all day. I recently caught myself yelling at it that “Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan are not news.” I could really care less that the celebrity of the week got a DUI or was going to rehab.
Well, it turns out the general public feels […]

Being a journalist isn’t always easy, especially when it comes to relationships. To do our jobs we have to get to know people; but, we also have to maintain our integrity.
And since we’re not machines, we also need to have friends and loved-ones in our personal lives. But sometimes the lines get way more blurred […]