I’m pretty sure I unintentionally helped gentrify a neighborhood in the 1970s before gentrification was a word. My then-husband and I bought a house in a tired neighborhood in Vancouver, Wash., cleaned, painted and refurbished it, and sold it a year later for a 19 percent profit. That put another $6,000 in our pockets to […]
Diane Carman
Special to The Colorado Sun
Twitter: @dccarman
Posted inHealth, Opinion, Opinion Columns
Carman: Time to kick the deliberately reckless disease vectors out of the herd
Public health officials across Colorado have been on high alert for weeks. They’re watching nervously to see if the one case of measles confirmed in Denver on Jan. 15 will lead to an outbreak. It’s no small concern. Thanks to state laws that allow parents to opt-out of immunizations — well, just because — it’s […]
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Carman: Trump’s wall is just the wretched symbol of a dying racist culture
After 52 years in the United States, Jose´ Azua is impervious to the insults. This month when President Trump spoke from the Oval Office to characterize immigrants once again as murderers, drug dealers and rapists, I was so upset by his hate-filled remarks, I had nightmares. Azua slept peacefully. He’d heard it all before. It […]
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Carman: Job one for our next mayor — how to un-Denverize Denver
If your New Year’s resolution was to stop reading the relentlessly depressing coverage of our dysfunctional federal government, have I got a deal for you. For at least the next four months, an array of candidates will be running for city office in Denver, and instead of stressing about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen or […]
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Carman: How the coal-fired Grinch stole Christmas
All the kidsHere in DenverLike Christmas a lotBut this snow-loving, outdoorsy grandma Does not! Sure, I love all the parties, the holiday season.I bake awesome cookies — not to would be treason. I live for the moments when everyone fleesIn the wee early hours with helmets and skisTo ride some sweet powder, to cut some […]
Posted inNews, Opinion, Opinion Columns
Carman: No child should be able to get married before she can get a driver’s license
I’m trying to imagine a Colorado bank approving a 30-year home mortgage for a 15-year-old. Or an agency authorizing an adoption of an infant by a 14-year-old. Or a 13-year-old hiring a divorce attorney. OK, those images are absurd. After all, you have to be 16 to get a driver’s license, 18 to vote. And […]
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Carman: Make Thanksgiving great again – no gloating allowed
Thanksgiving is no time to gloat. Sure, here in Colorado we just surfed the blue wave in a big way. Bazillions were spent on both sides, which should hardly be a point of pride, but ultimately the outcome was decisive. The predicted national blue wave dwindled to a wavelet as it rippled south to Texas, […]
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Carman: Sure the ballot is ridiculously long, but you’re lucky it’s so easy to vote in Colorado
It’s your country. It’s your future. Vote. Voting in Colorado is easy. With mail ballots, early voting opportunities, automatic and same-day voter registration, voting here is a snap. It’s so easy, in fact, you’re likely to take it for granted. Please don’t. Sure, the ballot is ridiculously long, and you’ve been brutalized by political ads […]
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Carman: A voters’ guide to the absurdities of Colorado politics in 2018
Your ballot should have arrived in the mail by now, so the pressure is on. You have important decisions to make, and time is running out. Given the storm surge of mailers, commercials, debates and news stories that has inundated you in recent weeks, you’re surely knee-deep in campaign muck and slime by now. I’m […]
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Carman: Colorado jurists worry about the future of the U.S. Supreme Court
In the past 50 years, ever since Jean Dubofsky has been a lawyer, Republicans have dominated the U.S. Supreme Court. Since 1969, Republican presidents have appointed 13 Supreme Court justices. Democrats have appointed four. But Dubofsky, who was the first woman named a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court in 1979 and famously led the […]