Guest Commentary: How pure patriotism could oust nationalism

Jan. 25, 2021

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on January 25, 2021 By Patty Limerick and Bob Draughon The nation’s leaders are now locked in a bitter struggle to control the vision of how the citizens of a divided nation should be brought back together. If all...

Live Free or Die if You Must, Say Colorado Urbanites — But Not in My Hospital

Dec. 28, 2020

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on December 28, 2020 By Rae Ellen Bichell ERIE, Colo. — Whenever Larry Kelderman looks up from the car he’s fixing and peers across the street, he’s looking across a border. His town of 28,000 straddles two counties, separated...

New Lunch with Limerick discussion to explore keeping bearings in unsteady times

Dec. 4, 2020

Original article can be found at Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine Originally published on December 4, 2020 By Cay Leytham-Powell Compromise seems less and less likely between Republicans and Democrats in these turbulent times—but is it really? That’s the topic of conversation of the newest Lunch with Limerick series, which...

Utah’s mystery desert sculpture: Art or graffito?

Nov. 27, 2020

Original article can be found at The Salt Lake Tribune Originally published on November 27, 2020 By Zak Podmore, Brian Maffly The Obelisk, Utah • Several years ago — likely sometime in 2016 — one or more artists carrying well over 100 pounds of stainless steel hiked into a remote...

Limerick: To save America we can’t just knock over the board game of life and go home

Nov. 12, 2020

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on November 12, 2020 By Patty Limerick There are reasons to believe that the 2020 presidential election is tearing our nation in two. And there are also reasons to believe that Americans hold the power to refuse the rupture...

The legacy of Manifest Destiny (and why we re-named this podcast)

Oct. 7, 2020

Original article can be found at Center for Western Priorities Originally published on October 7, 2020 By Aaron Weiss Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Go West, Young Podcast is now The Landscape—still all about America’s public lands and the outdoors, but...

Limerick: Search for high moral values at University of Colorado leads to fraternity leader

Sept. 19, 2020

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on September 19, 2020 By Patty Limerick In these grim times, we have every reason to conjure up ways to feel better about the world. So I asked myself, what could I do that would distract me from thinking...

Gravel & cobbles and implications of the Colorado River Basin’s slow bake

Aug. 16, 2020

Original article can be found at Mountain Town News Originally published on August 16, 2020 By Allen Best Gravel yards annoy me. I’ve driven around Las Vegas and Albuquerque, both places of considerable aridity that depend greatly upon the Colorado River. Gravel has come to dominate the front yards in...

Patty Limerick: Clearing the air of respiratory protest

Aug. 14, 2020

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on August 14, 2020 Once upon a time, people used to assemble in lecture halls and auditoriums to hear a speaker. They would sit unimaginably close to one another, exhaling with abandon into each other’s airspace. It was an...

Demonstrations Spread Across Colorado As Racial Justice And Pandemic Stressors Add Up

Aug. 11, 2020

Original article can be found at KUNC Originally published on August 11, 2020 By Leigh Paterson Adam Rayes In April, hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the Colorado state Capitol building, protesting Colorado’s stay-at-home order. At the end of May, crowds began marching in Denver protesting against police brutality, following the...

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